Warehouse Supervisor
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Gay Lea Foods seeks a Warehouse Supervisor to manage warehouse operations, ensure HACCP compliance, and optimize logistics processes.
The role involves supervising staff, maintaining inventory, and coordinating logistics.
Candidates must have relevant experience and strong leadership skills.
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Warehouse Supervisor Overview
Gay Lea Foods seeks a Warehouse Supervisor to manage warehouse operations, ensure HACCP compliance, and optimize logistics processes.
The role involves supervising staff, maintaining inventory, and coordinating logistics.
Candidates must have relevant experience and strong leadership skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Run warehouse operations, ensuring compliance with all safety standards and HACCP regulations.
- Supervision of warehouse staff, coordinate and prioritize workflow, provide training, performance evaluation and disciplinary procedures.
- Responsible as a super user of the warehouse management system.
- Completion of daily data entry requirements including, but not limited to invoicing, floor stock inventory, Sales Order details, and entering Purchase Orders.
- Recommend and implement changes to improve processes and productivity to ensure warehouse runs in an accurate and efficient manner.
- Monitor and maintain the Quality, Food Safety and SQF systems.
- Ensure warehouse facility is kept clean, all stock is maintained in an appropriate manner, good stock rotation practices are in place, and product is kept clean and damage free to ensure quality integrity.
- Assist in loading/unloading trucks and assembling orders.
- Completion and documentation of MSS and HACCP related items.
- Ability to be flexible in terms of shift work and weekend work and perform other duties as required.
- Food Safety & Quality responsibility as outlined in SOP’s & other training materials provided and accurate record keeping.
- Attend prescribed courses/training as required.
Qualifications
- Post secondary education and/or minimum five (5) years relevant work experience in a lead hand or supervisory capacity.
- Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices, including excellent sanitary habits and knowledge of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
- Experience operating material handling equipment, including Counterbalance Forklifts, Electric Lift Trucks, Reach Trucks, and pallet jacks; certification/licensing required.
- Strong experience and working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) and automated Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Strong time management, organizational, and priority-setting skills with the ability to manage multiple competing demands.
- Effective leadership skills with the ability to coach, motivate, and work collaboratively with others.
- Familiar with total quality management, continuous improvement processes and food safety systems.
- Proficient Computer skills - experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.).
- Physically capable of performing the demands of the job.
- Ability and willingness to work extended shifts, evenings, weekends, and overtime as required to support operational needs.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits, retirement savings plan, paid vacation, and other perks and opportunities.
Compensation
- The pay range for the role is CAD 62,600 to CAD 104,300 plus bonus.
About Gay Lea Foods
Gay Lea Foods is a Canadian, dairy farmer-owned cooperative with a clear purpose: to enrich life with dairy.
Founded in 1958, the cooperative produces high-quality dairy products while creating lasting value for farming families, meaningful opportunities for employees, and positive impact in communities across Canada.
As a cooperative, Gay Lea Foods believes that when the business succeeds, its members, people, and communities should succeed along with it.
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