Warehouse Operations Supervisor

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Position Summary:

The Group Leader (Warehouse Supervisor) is responsible for supervising hourly employees in a warehouse/manufacturing environment. This position plans and assigns work, implements policies and procedures and recommends improvements in production methods, equipment, operating procedures and working conditions. Responsible for the management functions of a fast-paced high technology lean based warehousing/supply chain operation. Accountable for the efficient use of people and resources to achieve financial and operational goals for the department.

Work You’ll Do:

• Ensure effective employee relations.
  • Provides employee coaching and development.
  • Recommends employment decisions.
  • Resolve employee issues through problem resolution.
  • Track absenteeism and timekeeping.
• Maintains day to day responsibilities of work scheduling, quality, and interfacing with other supervisors and managers as needed to meet the production schedule.
• Ensures that Lean principles are being applied with the right goal in mind: To sustainably maximize the delivery of value to the customer.
• Empowers others to find creative solutions to address complex problems that may impact the organization.
• Evaluates the quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis.
• Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of his/her own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Creating platforms to drive optimization and continuously improve 4 core areas of quality, safety, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.
• Develops and implements manufacturing methods, quality standards, and perform cost analysis to promote efficient staff and facility utilization.
• Ownership of training and technical development of employees including performance reviews, frequent feedback, and setting of goals and objectives.
• Identifies and directs implementation of improvement opportunities by securing relevant information, asking effective questions, and developing solutions.
• Resolves problems relating to materials, operations, quality or other factors that may result in production delays.
• Interacts with applicable engineering staff on piece part design, process development and improvement.
• Balance quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas.
• Manage departmental performance measures, including visual controls and provides regular progress reports to manager.
• Manage department priorities and other duties/projects as assigned.

Team:

This role will be a part of the warehouse operations and will be supervising 20 direct reports.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or related field, or 4-5 years of relative experience in leading others w/ high school diploma or GED equivalent, or combination of both education and experience.
• Demonstrated Leadership, Business and Financial understanding.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and provide feedback.
• Constraint management, ISO, systematic problem solving, BBS.
• Competencies:
  • Leadership                                                     
  • Performance Management
  • Problem Solving/Analysis                              
  • Results Driven
  • Flexibility and Time Management                  
  • Strong Communication Skills
  • Ability to operate at multiple organizational levels.
• Computer, Communication, and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean Manufacturing background within a plant and operational managerial experience from a production / manufacturing setting is preferred.
• Knowledge and practical experience of lean manufacturing principles, MRP is preferred.
• Working experience in a manufacturing or warehousing/supply chain/inventory environment is preferred.

Who we are:

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that inclu