Global Warehouse Manager
Job Title:
Global Warehouse Manager
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Department:
Supply Chain
Reports to:
Director, Supply Chain
GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PURPOSE:
The warehouse manager is responsible for the entirety of the warehouse operations defining ambitious plans and goals, building programs, operating daily with people, safety, quality, and integrity, and supporting the Loram values.
This role partners with the other global sites through a center-led model and builds warehousing programs, focusing on developing people, and warehouse processes, and being an influential leader. The warehouse manager is a change leader with the ability to measure using best practices and is always looking for ways to optimize the results. This role is to directly optimize our Hamel warehouse operations while evaluating the global footprint, third-party storage options, global best practices, and warehouse technology, and developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This role provides an opportunity to develop original ideas and approaches into successful best practices globally.
The scope of the role is to directly manage and lead the Hamel warehousing function and lead through center-led model warehouses and 3PLs in Brazil, the UK, Texas, India, and Australia.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Leadership and Talent Development
- Develop a warehouse inventory storage strategy for a, b, c, large items, and VMI.
- Create and implement a global warehouse facility strategy to optimize and balance costs and decide where to store inventory. This would include third-party warehousing.
- Manage all capital and budgetary expenditures and maintenance of warehouse equipment.
- Cultivate strong relationships with peers in other sites and cross-functional leaders.
Culture
- Monitor, manage, and maintain a safety culture that strives to ensure the safety of each employee.
- Create and implement a high-performing 5S system and culture.
- Establish a culture of work execution to plan, focus on transactional details, and have a can do attitude in supporting our customers.
Operational Excellence
- Develop and improve our warehousing processes, work instructions, and training.
- Lead daily management and improve warehousing KPI.
- Develop a resource labor capacity planning method & optimize efficiency.
- Ensure parts are delivered to production and shipped to customers to the agreed SLA.
Global Management
- Lead the global warehouse operations through a center-led model.
- Work with the global sites to develop solutions and best practices to common issues.
- Implement warehousing, picking strategies, technologies, and tools globally.
- Create and lead global warehousing projects and new site implementations.
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:
- Action Oriented
- Building Customer Loyalty
- Creating a Service Reputation
- Values-Based Leadership
- Organizational Agility
- Problem Solving
REQUIRED
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in operations management, Business, Supply Chain, finance, or related field
Experience:
8
years of warehouse experience, strong ERP skills with a deep understanding of the warehouse transactional steps, understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgment, strong leadership and organizational skills, ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships, comfortable with figures and collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. 3
Years of experience managing and leading people.
Or 14
years of combination of education and experience in the supply chain, finance, or economics.
PREFERRED
Qualifications:
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- APICs
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of the role successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Office deskwork, requiring sitting, walking, using phone & computer.
- May lift up to 30 lbs. occasionally.
- 15% or more travel including international.
- Can tolerate variable and sometimes challenging conditions during visits or inspections of company equipment in a railroad environment.
Loram is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will make all employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Rev. 12/23
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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