Material Flow Supervisor - Weekend Shift

This position is responsible for coordinating warehouse activities which include frontline supervision of staff, shipment of finished goods, receiving of raw materials, inventory control, order fulfillment, return to stock, lean initiatives, safety and associated paperwork to ensure timely delivery of products to customers.

• Directly supervise the day to day material flow activities within the shipping, market, and receiving departments to ensure that commitments are achieved.
• Escalate potential inventory and resource concerns at the daily production meeting and to individuals in respective functional areas.
• Supervise the receipt, stock, picking, delivery and shipment of materials in the Epicor system and physical movements with the financial guidelines to assure satisfaction of internal and external customers and suppliers are met.
• Manages supply of materials necessary to satisfy operational goals, escalating potential discrepancies at daily ship board and carrier coverage meetings.
• People management in the areas of performance management, development, time and attendance, and progressive discipline.
• Provide coaching and proper documentation on performance, mentoring, and corrective actions to employees as needed.
• Conducts quarterly and end of the year performance reviews and participates in the requisition and on boarding of new employees.
• Track daily performance through the use of process center communication and accountability boards on a daily and weekly meeting basis.
• Partner with HR on escalated employee relations to ensure proper procedures are being followed.
• Be a change agent and drive out waste and lead time throughout the material flow operations with the deployment of Lean techniques, tools, and methodologies.
• Drive a continuous improvement culture by involving employees in problem solving, decision making, and recognizing them for outstanding work during daily pre-shift communication meetings and ongoing developmental 1:1 meetings.
• Review and submit payroll on a bi-weekly basis.
• Develops key improvement projects and assigns resources and time through Project A3’s, Newspaper Reviews, and planning tools.
• Assist with the development of future and current state value stream maps and continuous improvement plans, as well as the implementation of those plans.
• Support new processes through creation, timing, training, and auditing of standard work and work instruction documents.
• Be highly visible to employees to promote hands on, high involvement in problem solving, and communication with supply, customer service, sales, engineering, supply chain, quality and production.
• Report near miss and incidents through standard reporting procedures, identify corrective actions, countermeasures needed to comply with applicable safety policies.
• Ensure a clean and safe working environment for all employees emphasizing prevention of potential unsafe conditions through Tool Box Talks, department audits, safety walks, and safety communication alerts.
• Plan and manage daily milk runs from building to building through standard scheduling processes and documentation.
• Manage the space and location of the market areas; overflow scrap and obsolete processes.
• Drive team to maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area as established through 5S standards.
• Perform other related duties as needed.

• High school diploma or general equivalency degree required. College degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3-5 years warehouse experience.
• Previous supervisory experience with demonstrated ability to lead, influence and hold teams accountable.
• Ability to build relationships to meet customer needs, both internal and external.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ERP/WMS systems.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles.
• Ability to effectively communicate across all operational levels.