Warehouse Manager Jobs in Texas

JOB SUMMARY

This is an Operations position responsible for managing the activities associated with day warehouse operations, such as product receiving, overseeing all operations of the warehouse to ensure safety and security, providing management and direction to warehouse staff, and performing other related duties as required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops and promotes warehouse goals and objectives while working with operations management in planning and supervising activities.
• Assists in planning and developing a warehouse operating budget.
• Evaluations of warehouse operations in terms of fiscal management to ensure all activities are within budgetary constraints.
• Supports in developing and maintaining warehouse communications with other departments to enhance the warehouse's overall efficiency.
• Analyzes, identifies, and proposes solutions to problems regarding operations of the warehouse to increase the effectiveness of the operations department.
• Provides supervision of subordinates to maintain warehouse efficiency.
• Ensures, through the management of personnel, the accurate receiving of products including checking that received products correspond with the number of cases, package size, and other descriptions of the product as listed on shipping order.
• Also ensures, through personnel management that products are slotted correctly.
• Manages the maintenance of the warehouse to reduce accidents and eliminate damage/loss to products and ensures that staff complies with all Sysco policies concerning safety and security of warehouse activities to reduce accidents and product loss.
• Enforces policies concerning the security of warehouses and monitors for the incidence of product theft in an effort to reduce product loss of incident of theft.
• Conducts assessments, as needed, to determine the training and development needs of staff and provides appropriate training and development to staff as needed.
• Aids in personnel recruitment and selection as required and assists in the orientation of new employees to increase retention rates and reduce employee turnover.
• Executes formal employee performance evaluations, when needed or annually, to relate expectations to the warehouse staff and provides evaluation documentation.
• Monitors work and provide feedback, continuously, on the performance of day warehouse personnel to relate expectations to the staff and identify poor performance levels.
• Observes and completes payroll process every week for all warehouse employees affected by the pay for performance system.
• Completes personnel records and forms as required and assists in human resource actions as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).

Experience

• Upper-level education preferred.

Requirement

• Pass mandatory ergonomics testing.

Professional Skills

• Uses time efficiently.
• Approaches others in a tactful manner.
• Looks for ways to improve and promote quality.
• Applies feedback to improve performance.
• Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Observes safety and security procedures.
• Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines.
• Reports potentially unsafe conditions.
• Uses equipment and materials properly.
• Asks for and offers help when needed.
• Generates suggestions for improving work.
• Good working knowledge of the following: inventory control practices and procedures, including forms associated with inventory control, product lines and their dimensions, products sold by Sysco, Sysco safety and security policies, equipment associated with warehouse activities and the operation of the equipment, management principles including developing objectives, projecting and managing under a budget, evaluating department operations, and managing and motivating employees, necessary interdepartmental communications related to warehouse and safety activities.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize your work activities.
• Analyze and disseminate numerical data.
• Follow procedures and policies.
• Perform basic mathematical calculations.
• Identify and solve problems.
• Maintain a file system to include alphabetical, numerical, and chronological filing activities.
• Possess excellent computer skills and have a working knowledge of programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to manage the pressures and stress associated with a deadline-oriented atmosphere.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• May be required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear.
• The employee may have to lift to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities that may be required by this job include close vision and distance vision.

Working Conditions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work environment varies between office, warehouse, and field locations. This includes, but is not limited to: various outdoor and indoor climates and driving conditions.
• Primarily in an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job.