Director, Carolinas Distribution Centers

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Position Summary

The leader for Carolinas Distribution Centers sets the strategic direction for large‑scale distribution center operations supporting the Carolinas region and plays a critical role in advancing Duke Energy’s commitment to safety, operational excellence, and reliable service. This leader provides strategic and operational leadership for end‑to‑end warehousing and material distribution services that enable Transmission, Distribution, and Generation partners to safely and effectively serve customers and communities.

Aligned with Duke Energy’s Leadership / Employee Imperatives, this role requires a leader who demonstrates operational discipline, courage to innovate, accountability for results, and the ability to build strong, collaborative relationships across the enterprise. The incumbent leads and develops an organization of approximately 50 or more employees, including material specialists, supervisors, and managers, while driving continuous improvement, technology adoption, and workforce capability.

This role leads daily activity and interfaces with other areas of the company like logistics, inventory, analytics, planning, Environmental Health and Safety, sourcing, field operations and 3rd party vendors.

Carolinas distribution centers support material flow to over 100 sites including operation center warehouses, power plant warehouses, contractor yards, transmission job sites like substations and base camps. The total square footage for the DC’s exceeds 700.

Responsibilities

Safety, Compliance, and Operational Discipline

• Champion Duke Energy’s safety culture, ensuring all distribution center operations meet or exceed corporate safety goals and regulatory requirements.

• Diligently manage and optimize an budget of $15M, ~$600M in inventory and thousands of warehouse operation transactions

• Speak up and actively address risks, concerns, or conditions that could impact safety, reliability, or environmental compliance.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable company policies, state and federal regulations, environmental requirements, and material handling standards.

• Establish and reinforce operational discipline, standard work, and audit readiness across all distribution center activities.

• Develop and implement safety, storm response readiness, business continuity and security plans by partnering with the appropriate organizations.

Distribution Center Operations & Service Reliability

• Provide full accountability for receiving, storage, inventory control, picking, staging, and issuance of materials supporting Transmission, Distribution, and Generation.

• Lead large, complex distribution center operations managing high‑value inventories critical to system reliability and emergency response.

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of materials by maintaining strong inventory accuracy, process discipline, and service‑level performance.

• Manage operating budgets and financial performance, with a clear understanding of impacts to O\&M, capital, cash flow, and inventory.

• Use data and performance metrics to evaluate results, identify gaps, and drive stakeholder engagement.

People Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, engage, and develop a workforce of 50 or more employees, including material specialists, supervisors, and managers.

• Build leadership capability through coaching, feedback, succession planning, and development plans aligned with Duke Energy expectations.

• Promote accountability, ownership, and a results‑oriented mindset across all levels of the organization.

• Foster collaboration, respect, and open communication, especially during periods of change or transformation.

• Partner effectively with Human Resources and labor relations, including union engagement where applicable.

Business Partnership and Enterprise Collaboration

• Build positive, collaborative relationships with Transmission, Distribution, and Generation, and Union leaders and other Supply Chain partners.