Warehouse Superintendent

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.​

Westlake Pipe & Fittings, a Westlake division (NYSE:WLK), is one of the largest polyvinyl chloride pipe and fittings manufacturer in North America. With 23 manufacturing and distribution locations, the company supplies gasketed, solvent weld and restrained joint pipes and a wide range of fittings for a diverse list of markets including municipal water and sewer, plumbing, water well, pool and spa, and agricultural and turf irrigation. Westlake Pipe & Fittings is an industry leader in product development with Certa-Lok® spline-lock technology and product systems that are focused on building A Better Foundation. To learn more, visit the website at WestlakePipe.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook. 

COMPETITIVE PAY & BENEFITS

• Benefits Effective Day 1
• Med, Den, Vision, 401k (4% match), Annual Retirement Contribution (2%), Life & AD&D
• Paid Vacation
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Fitness Reimbursement Program
• Opportunity for Advancement

SUMMARY

Manage all functions within the Stockton, CA distribution center, including receiving, storage, order picking, shipping and transportation. This position requires a focus on customer satisfaction by maintaining and continually improving warehouse operations to ensure the timely, accurate and cost-efficient delivery of products to our customers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

May include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop, coach, and train personnel on safety, compliance, product knowledge, company procedures, and best-practices as it relates to the warehouse environment.
• Ensures adherence with cycle count program based on ABC principles.
• Leads internal efforts in developing implementation of best practices throughout the shipping operation.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts with a continued focus on achieving operational excellence.
• Defines KPI’s while holding the site accountable on meeting and/or exceeding those targets.
• Manage day-to-day shipping operations, measures performance for on time, in-full delivery performance, shipping costs for all forms of transit, warehouse inventory management, warehousing productivity and quality, and workforce planning requirements.
• Investigates cause analysis issues for problem reconciliation and leads corrective action for complaints related to transportation, logistics handling and warehousing of finished products.
• Directs staff to support strategic customer care service objectives, enhance staff, team skills and competencies, and establish team performance objectives.
• Confers with department heads to ensure coordination of warehouse activities with activities of other functions such as production, sales, quality control and purchasing.
• Maintains records for warehouse operations.
• Works with managers and personnel of other departments to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Arrange warehouse materials to maximize utilization of space and to expedite pulling of job orders.
• Responsible for managing the flow of all materials into and out of the warehouse to include production, customer shipments, supplier shipments, interplant shipments, etc.
• Responsible for working with managers, other supervisors, and employees from other departments to promote a team environment to achieve goals across all shifts.
• Provide technical leadership to personnel, to include equipment, cycle count accuracy, inventory location control, order picking accuracy, metrics definition/reporting, root cause troubleshooting.
• Facilitate safety training and complete all incident investigations and reporting.
• Coordinate departmental productivity and inventory management goals.
• Evaluate and manage warehouse resources and activities in relation to company objectives and set targets.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Material Management, or related field 
• 5 - 7 years of management experience in warehousing, inventory control, or materials man