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Job Summary
The Inbound Operations Supervisor is a people leader that drives the successful execution of all receiving freight and stocking activities. Reporting to the Inbound Operations Manager, this role responsible for designing efficient and consistent methods of ensuring loads are scheduled and received on time, applicable paperwork is reconciled, OS&Ds are filed and sellable quality parts are stocked; they also ensure inbound teams are properly sorting, stocking, and reconciling products. The Inbound Operations Supervisor ultimately holds their team to a high standard of operational execution, while also reinforcing a culture of engagement, empowerment and problem-solving amongst all teammates.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for supervising and implementing functions of efficient inbound operations by instructing employees how to perform work, monitoring progress, and troubleshooting as needed.
- Responsible for designing and maintaining organization of inbound freight (scheduling and unloading), receiving dock, stocking activities, housekeeping, and maintenance areas and protocols.
- Responsible for consistent and innovative solutions to drive adherence to all security and safety rules and regulations, ensuring a safe environment for employees, including but not limited to receiving, stocking and customer return procedures.
- Proactively maintains awareness of budget planning and enforces cost-saving initiatives and process improvements.
- Supervises and provides leadership to warehouse associates, promoting engagement and empowerment to solve problems and make good operational decisions.
- Works with other DC management to investigate and resolve receiving errors; addresses receiving errors with team to mitigate future issues.
- Schedules team hours to ensure peak period coverage and efficiency.
- Protects company assets ensuring all equipment is used and maintained properly, buildings are opened, checked and secured daily, monitoring employees so no merchandise leaves without proper receipts.
- Identifies opportunities for cost reduction and implements process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
- Fosters a culture of engagement and empowerment, mentors team members, and facilitates problem-solving and decision-making to drive operational success.
- Responsible for efficient and accurate methods of processing all new freight, as well as supervision of the team performing put away procedures for incoming freight and customer returns.
- Oversees the reconciliation of received loads each day to ensure proper receiving of product.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- 1+ years’ experience within a distribution center or similar environment.
- Ability to comply with all safety requirements pertaining to job functions and general distribution center safety requirements.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
- Strong organizational skills detail oriented.
- Ability to use good judgment in order to carry out detailed instructions.
- Basic computer skills required.
- Must be capable of lifting/moving heavy items up to 60 lbs.
- Must be forklift and pallet jack certified.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years’ experience within a distribution center or similar environment.
- 1+ year’s proven experience in a managerial role and/or leading teams.
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools.
- Diverse experience (especially within automotive or retail distribution centers).
- Proven experience performing various quality functions (inspection, control, assurance, audits).
- Proficiency in using relevant tools and technology (including MS Office, Promapp, Power BI, Visio, etc.).
- Customer-centric spirit and task-execution.
- Enthusiasm for data, analysis, and providing simple insights.
- Passion for solving complex challenges.
- Comfort influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly.
- Test-and-learn mentality and agile way of working to improve team products.
Leadership
- Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
- Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
- Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
- Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.
- Develops high-performing teams by providing inclusive leadership, attracting and developing world-class talent, providing ongoing feedback, and building trust across the organization.
Physical Demands / Working Environment
- Lifting and Carrying: Ability to lift and carry objects of varying weights, typically 25 to 50 pounds or more, depending on the job duties.
- Pushing and Pulling: Capability to push and pull carts, pallet jacks, or other equipment loaded with materials throughout the warehouse. This may involve pushing or pulling heavy loads over extended distances or up ramps.
- Standing and Walking: Ability to stand and walk for extended periods, often for the duration of a shift. Warehouse employees need to be able to move around the warehouse facility to pick orders, stock shelves, or perform other tasks.
- Bending and Stooping: Capacity to bend, stoop, squat, and reach to retrieve items from shelves, bins, or storage racks. Employees need the ability to access items throughout the warehouse at various heights and angles.
- Climbing: Can climb ladders or stairs to access elevated storage areas or perform maintenance tasks. Warehouse employees need to have the capacity to work at heights to include open floor mezzanines and follow safety protocols for ladder use.
- Operating Equipment: Proficiency in operating warehouse equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, and order pickers. Depending on the job role, employees must pass certification or training programs to operate certain equipment safely.
- Manual Dexterity: Ability to use hands and fingers to handle small objects, operate machinery controls, and perform tasks requiring precision and accuracy. This may include picking and packing items, labeling products, or assembling shipments.
- Repetitive Motion: Ability to perform repetitive tasks, such as scanning barcodes, sorting items, or packaging products, throughout the shift. Employees should be able to maintain productivity while performing repetitive motions safely.
- Physical Endurance: Stamina and endurance to work in a fast-paced environment and meet productivity targets. Warehouse employees need to have the capacity to work long hours, weekends, or overtime during peak periods.
- Safety Awareness: Commitment to following safety protocols and guidelines to prevent workplace accidents and injuries. Employees should be vigilant about potential hazards in the warehouse environment and take appropriate precautions to ensure their safety and the safety of others.
- Environment: Position operates in a warehouse setting with continuous exposure to industrial noise (e.g., forklifts, conveyors, machinery, and loading activities), bright overhead lighting, and varying temperatures due to limited climate control.
- Employees regularly work around moving equipment and mechanical operations and must remain alert to audible and visual safety signals in a fast-paced environment.
Not the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community on jobs.genpt.com or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!
GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
Job Summary
The Inbound Operations Supervisor is a people leader that drives the successful execution of all receiving freight and stocking activities. Reporting to the Inbound Operations Manager, this role responsible for designing efficient and consistent methods of ensuring loads are scheduled and received on time, applicable paperwork is reconciled, OS&Ds are filed and sellable quality parts are stocked; they also ensure inbound teams are properly sorting, stocking, and reconciling products. The Inbound Operations Supervisor ultimately holds their team to a high standard of operational execution, while also reinforcing a culture of engagement, empowerment and problem-solving amongst all teammates.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for supervising and implementing functions of efficient inbound operations by instructing employees how to perform work, monitoring progress, and troubleshooting as needed.
- Responsible for designing and maintaining organization of inbound freight (scheduling and unloading), receiving dock, stocking activities, housekeeping, and maintenance areas and protocols.
- Responsible for consistent and innovative solutions to drive adherence to all security and safety rules and regulations, ensuring a safe environment for employees, including but not limited to receiving, stocking and customer return procedures.
- Proactively maintains awareness of budget planning and enforces cost-saving initiatives and process improvements.
- Supervises and provides leadership to warehouse associates, promoting engagement and empowerment to solve problems and make good operational decisions.
- Works with other DC management to investigate and resolve receiving errors; addresses receiving errors with team to mitigate future issues.
- Schedules team hours to ensure peak period coverage and efficiency.
- Protects company assets ensuring all equipment is used and maintained properly, buildings are opened, checked and secured daily, monitoring employees so no merchandise leaves without proper receipts.
- Identifies opportunities for cost reduction and implements process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
- Fosters a culture of engagement and empowerment, mentors team members, and facilitates problem-solving and decision-making to drive operational success.
- Responsible for efficient and accurate methods of processing all new freight, as well as supervision of the team performing put away procedures for incoming freight and customer returns.
- Oversees the reconciliation of received loads each day to ensure proper receiving of product.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- 1+ years’ experience within a distribution center or similar environment.
- Ability to comply with all safety requirements pertaining to job functions and general distribution center safety requirements.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
- Strong organizational skills detail oriented.
- Ability to use good judgment in order to carry out detailed instructions.
- Basic computer skills required.
- Must be capable of lifting/moving heavy items up to 60 lbs.
- Must be forklift and pallet jack certified.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years’ experience within a distribution center or similar environment.
- 1+ year’s proven experience in a managerial role and/or leading teams.
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools.
- Diverse experience (especially within automotive or retail distribution centers).
- Proven experience performing various quality functions (inspection, control, assurance, audits).
- Proficiency in using relevant tools and technology (including MS Office, Promapp, Power BI, Visio, etc.).
- Customer-centric spirit and task-execution.
- Enthusiasm for data, analysis, and providing simple insights.
- Passion for solving complex challenges.
- Comfort influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly.
- Test-and-learn mentality and agile way of working to improve team products.
Leadership
- Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
- Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
- Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
- Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.
- Develops high-performing teams by providing inclusive leadership, attracting and developing world-class talent, providing ongoing feedback, and building trust across the organization.
Physical Demands / Working Environment
- Lifting and Carrying: Ability to lift and carry objects of varying weights, typically 25 to 50 pounds or more, depending on the job duties.
- Pushing and Pulling: Capability to push and pull carts, pallet jacks, or other equipment loaded with materials throughout the warehouse. This may involve pushing or pulling heavy loads over extended distances or up ramps.
- Standing and Walking: Ability to stand and walk for extended periods, often for the duration of a shift. Warehouse employees need to be able to move around the warehouse facility to pick orders, stock shelves, or perform other tasks.
- Bending and Stooping: Capacity to bend, stoop, squat, and reach to retrieve items from shelves, bins, or storage racks. Employees need the ability to access items throughout the warehouse at various heights and angles.
- Climbing: Can climb ladders or stairs to access elevated storage areas or perform maintenance tasks. Warehouse employees need to have the capacity to work at heights to include open floor mezzanines and follow safety protocols for ladder use.
- Operating Equipment: Proficiency in operating warehouse equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, and order pickers. Depending on the job role, employees must pass certification or training programs to operate certain equipment safely.
- Manual Dexterity: Ability to use hands and fingers to handle small objects, operate machinery controls, and perform tasks requiring precision and accuracy. This may include picking and packing items, labeling products, or assembling shipments.
- Repetitive Motion: Ability to perform repetitive tasks, such as scanning barcodes, sorting items, or packaging products, throughout the shift. Employees should be able to maintain productivity while performing repetitive motions safely.
- Physical Endurance: Stamina and endurance to work in a fast-paced environment and meet productivity targets. Warehouse employees need to have the capacity to work long hours, weekends, or overtime during peak periods.
- Safety Awareness: Commitment to following safety protocols and guidelines to prevent workplace accidents and injuries. Employees should be vigilant about potential hazards in the warehouse environment and take appropriate precautions to ensure their safety and the safety of others.
- Environment: Position operates in a warehouse setting with continuous exposure to industrial noise (e.g., forklifts, conveyors, machinery, and loading activities), bright overhead lighting, and varying temperatures due to limited climate control.
- Employees regularly work around moving equipment and mechanical operations and must remain alert to audible and visual safety signals in a fast-paced environment.
Not the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community on jobs.genpt.com or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!
GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware
- Distribution & Wholesale
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in inbound supervisor jobs.
- Two or more years of experience supervising a receiving or inbound warehouse team
- Hands-on proficiency with a warehouse management system such as SAP, Manhattan, or Oracle
- Demonstrated ability to manage inbound freight flow, dock scheduling, and receiving accuracy
- Experience with inventory control processes including cycle counting and discrepancy resolution
- OSHA forklift certification or willingness to obtain certification within a specified timeframe
- High school diploma or GED required, with an associate or bachelor's degree preferred by many employers
Tips for Your Inbound Supervisor Job Search
Quantify throughput and shift metrics
Inbound supervisors are hired on operational results, so your resume needs numbers. Include units processed per shift, receiving accuracy rates, and team size managed. Hiring managers in distribution and fulfillment scan for these figures before reading anything else.
Highlight your WMS hands-on experience
Most inbound supervisor postings require direct experience with a warehouse management system. Name the specific platform you've used and the functions you handled, such as receiving, putaway, or cycle counts. Vague references to 'WMS experience' get screened out fast.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists inbound supervisor openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by shift and volume type
Inbound supervisor roles vary widely by shift structure and volume environment. A high-velocity e-commerce DC and a steady-state manufacturing receiving dock require different skill sets. Filter your search by operation type to find openings where your specific background transfers most directly.
Prepare for scenario-based interview questions
Interviewers for inbound supervisor roles routinely ask how you handled a late inbound truck, a staffing shortage mid-shift, or a discrepancy in a receiving count. Prepare two or three specific examples with outcomes, not general descriptions of your process.
Negotiate schedule and shift differential upfront
Inbound operations often run overnight or weekend shifts with differential pay. Clarify shift expectations and differential structure before accepting an offer. Many candidates overlook this until onboarding, which creates friction on both sides.
Inbound Supervisor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most inbound supervisors?
Sysco, Target, and NAPA Auto Parts are hiring the most inbound supervisors right now, with openings concentrated in California, Arizona, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Volume tends to track peak fulfillment seasons, so hiring activity often accelerates in the months before major retail cycles.
How many inbound supervisor jobs are remote?
About 100% of inbound supervisor openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most receiving and dock operations. The sub-roles most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements are inbound operations coordinators and logistics supervisors whose work is primarily system-based rather than floor-based.
How do you become an inbound supervisor?
Start by building direct experience in a warehouse or distribution center as a receiver, material handler, or lead associate. Develop proficiency in a warehouse management system and take on informal leadership responsibilities such as training new hires or covering for absent leads. Pursue a forklift certification and any available frontline supervisor training your employer offers. When you apply for supervisor roles, emphasize measurable outcomes from your time as a lead or acting supervisor.
Can you get hired as an inbound supervisor with little experience?
Yes, some employers will consider candidates who have strong lead or acting supervisor experience even without a formal supervisor title. Focus on roles at smaller distribution centers or regional carriers where the candidate pool is thinner. Emphasize concrete results from any time you ran a shift, trained associates, or managed receiving accuracy. A forklift certification and WMS familiarity go a long way when formal experience is limited.
What does the inbound supervisor interview process look like?
Most inbound supervisor interviews include an initial phone screen with a recruiter or HR coordinator, followed by one or two in-person rounds with the operations manager or DC manager. Expect scenario-based questions about handling dock delays, staffing gaps, and receiving discrepancies. Some employers include a facility walk-through where you may be asked to describe how you would organize or improve the inbound flow. References and a background check typically close the process.
Where can I find and apply to inbound supervisor jobs?
You can find and apply to inbound supervisor jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and location, then apply directly to each opening that fits. No separate signup is needed to apply.
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