Warehouse Supervisor
- Saint Louis, MO, United States
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JOB SUMMARY The Warehouse Manager leads receiving, inspection, storage, inventory control, material and tool fulfillment, staging, shipping, delivery coordination, asset management, fleet support, and warehouse workforce activities for the Manufacturing Department. This position ensures raw materials, manufactured assemblies, field-support kits, tools, equipment, and project materials are received accurately, stored securely, tracked reliably, staged correctly, and delivered safely and on schedule. The Warehouse Manager establishes standard work, maintains visibility of material readiness and logistics constraints, develops warehouse personnel, and partners with Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing, Project Management, Advanced Construction Planning, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, and field teams to support predictable production and field execution. ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Warehouse Operations and Material Flow • Plan, prioritize, and direct daily receiving, inspection, put-away, storage, replenishment, picking, kitting, staging, packing, shipping, returns, and material-transfer activities. • Maintain clear flow paths and defined locations for inbound material, quarantine, inspection, raw material, work in process, completed assemblies, outbound shipments, tools, equipment, and returns. • Coordinate warehouse priorities with manufacturing schedules, project need dates, field requirements, and facility capacity. • Establish standard work, visual controls, location systems, labeling requirements, and handoff expectations that support safe and predictable flow. Receiving and Quality Verification • Verify inbound quantities, condition, packing lists, purchase-order information, certifications, and required documentation. • Document damage, shortages, overages, incorrect material, and receiving exceptions with photographs and timely notifications. • Coordinate disposition of nonconforming, damaged, quarantined, returned, or warranty material with Purchasing, Quality, suppliers, and responsible project teams. • Prevent unverified or rejected material from entering available inventory or production flow. Inventory Control and Material Readiness • Maintain accurate inventory records, location data, units of measure, min/max levels, reservations, transfers, cycle counts, and physical inventory results. • Monitor raw-material, consumable, standard-stock, project-specific, and critical-item availability against manufacturing and project schedules. • Investigate inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions. • Provide current material-readiness status and escalate shortages, excess, slow-moving stock, obsolete material, or space constraints early. Shipping, Logistics, and Delivery Coordination • Develop and maintain outbound shipment and delivery schedules with Purchasing, Manufacturing, project teams, field leadership, and drivers. • Verify outbound loads are complete, accurate, documented, labeled, protected, sequenced, secured, and ready for delivery. • Coordinate carrier selection, special handling, delivery appointments, site access, lifting or unloading requirements, and proof of delivery. • Manage delivery exceptions, returns, undelivered items, damaged shipments, and corrective action. Tool, Equipment, Asset, and Fleet Support • Manage receiving, inspection, storage, issue, return, tracking, readiness, repair coordination, calibration or certification status, and security of warehouse-controlled tools, equipment, and assets. • Enforce approved Remarcable or company asset-tracking processes for requests, check-out, transfers, status, and returns. • Coordinate maintenance and repair of damaged or unreliable tools and equipment. • Support fleet readiness, vehicle records, maintenance scheduling, inspectio follow-up, and coordination with responsible Purchasing or Operations personnel. Team Leadership and Workforce Development • Lead, schedule, train, coach, and develop warehouse associates, receiving and shipping personnel, drivers, apprentices, and assigned support staff. • Set daily expectations, verify understanding, monitor execution, provide respectful feedback, and reinforce accountability for safety, quality, accuracy, productivity, and service. • Support employee reviews, documented development plans, onboarding, cross-training, succession planning, and identification of staffing or skill gaps. • Maintain appropriate warehouse coverage while balancing receiving, fulfillment, staging, shipping, delivery, and operational-support needs. Safety, Compliance, and Facility Standards • Partner with Environmental Health and Safety personnel to maintain safe material handling, equipment operation, storage, racking, traffic flow, loading, unloading, and emergency access. • Enforce PPE, forklift and powered-industrial-truck authorization, load limits, safe lifting, dock safety, vehicle and pedestrian separation, incident reporting, and stop-work expectations. • Maintain clean, organized, secure, and hazard-free warehouse, staging, yard, loading, and support areas through 5S and daily housekeeping routines. • Maintain required training, inspection, certification, inventory, quality, and operational records. Cost Control, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement • Track and report warehouse performance, labor utilization, inventory accuracy, delivery performance, material readiness, damage, shortages, freight, and operating costs. • Support budget development and control for warehouse labor, supplies, storage, material-handling equipment, freight, fleet support, and facility needs. • Lead or participate in Kaizen events, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycles, and correctiveaction follow-up. • Improve layout, space utilization, point-of-use storage, replenishment, pull systems, transaction time, handling, and flow while protecting safety and quality. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Receiving and Inventory Performance • Receiving accuracy and receiving turnaround time. • Inventory-record accuracy and cycle-count variance. • Material damage, receiving discrepancy, and nonconformance rate. • Stockout frequency and raw-material availability for scheduled production. Fulfillment, Shipping, and Delivery Performance • Picking, kitting, staging, and shipment accuracy. • On-time staging, shipment, and delivery rate. • Proof-of-delivery and shipping-document completion. • Return, shortage, overage, and delivery-exception resolution time. Asset, Equipment, and Fleet Readiness • Tool and equipment tracking accuracy. • Repair, calibration, certification, and preventive-maintenance completion. • Warehouse equipment and vehicle availability. • Lost, overdue, damaged, or unaccounted-for asset rate. Safety, People, Cost, and Improvement • Recordable, near-miss, property-damage, and material-handling incident performance. • Required training and equipment-authorization completion. • 5S and warehouse audit score. • Warehouse operating-cost and freight variance. • Cross-training coverage and employee-development action completion. • Verified improvements in flow, space utilization, handling, or transaction time. DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES Warehouse Planning and Workforce Direction • Review inbound deliveries, manufacturing priorities, project requests, material status, outbound shipments, delivery commitments, labor coverage, and equipment availability. • Conduct a daily huddle covering safety, workload, assignments, quality expectations, constraints, and required handoffs. • Assign work and adju