Warehouse Manager

Logistics Manager

Location : On-site Bourbonnais, IL Area

Reports to : Operations Manager

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in transportation and logistics management, a background in the food manufacturing industry, and a proven track record of successfully leading teams

Job Description

• Develop, empower, and coach Team Leads in Shipping and Warehouse.
• Direct inbound and outbound shipping and receiving activities for raw materials, refrigerated goods, dry goods, and production raw materials.
• Work closely with the procurement team to collect, report and analyze data on production commodity deliveries.
• Manage the storage tank program for all outside tanks on the property.
• Ensure that all raw materials received into the facility are handled and held in accordance with Federal, State, and Local guidelines.
• Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external customers through networking and advocacy by offering advice, solutions leveraging data and proactive communication.
• Develop and manage service provider relationships, ensuring compliance, accountability, and performance leveraging scorecard data and root cause analysis creating corrective actions to close gaps.
• Develop and implement process improvements and capital improvements to ensure continuous improvement in human safety, food safety, productivity and profitability within all areas of plant logistics.
• Lead investigations, Root Cause Analyses (RCA), Corrective Action Preventative Action (CAPA) events to improve human safety and food safety and food quality.
• Create and revise standard operating procedures (SOP) as required to support cohesive business rules and expectations.
• Ability to operate a wide range of internal and external software to manage budgets, performance metrics, inventories, and equipment analysis.
• Leverage data and external learning to predict trends, create corrective actions and recommend strategies to company leadership.
• Proactively manage the plant’s fleet of Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIV) to include purchase, lease, inspection, repair, operation, and training.

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