Warehouse Manager

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B. Fuller’s (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2024 revenue of $3.6 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,500 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets. Learn more at www.hbfuller.com.

Job Description:

The Distribution & Warehouse Manager will be responsible for leading the warehouse, shipping and receiving activities of the South Bend and Bendix facilities, ensuring customer satisfaction.  The role will be accountable for operations activities involving environmental health and safety, people management, and inventory & logistics planning, analysis & reporting. The ideal candidate will have experience managing seasoned operators and leads, inventory management, extensive experience with SAP S4 Hana, effective communication skills, logistics experience and proven ability to implement Lean and continuous improvement methodologies. 

 

Primary Duties

• Fully support facility safety programs and actively contribute to continuous improvement of facility safety performance.

• Ensure OSHA and DOT requirements are met in the warehouse areas and collaborate actively to promote safe practices and efforts throughout the facility.

• Manage plant systems to maximize employee safety and minimize environmental risk. Ensure compliance with all applicable environmental regulations and assist the H.B. Fuller EHS team.

• Manage Warehouse Operations along with all shipping and receiving activities associated with receiving, storing and dispatching goods, tracking shipments and returns and liaising with customers and suppliers as necessary.

• Adherence to all environmental requirements and ensuring appropriate storage practices are being followed.

• Manage a team including a Warehouse Supervisor, Shipping Clerks, and Shipping Operators.

• Manage Plant Inventory and lead Plant Full Physical including Cycle Count Process.

• Provide logistics and scheduling support as needed.

• Work to maintain and improve SAP transactional accuracy for warehousing processes (inventory accuracy, days on hand, on time shipments, cycle counts, etc.) to ensure the effective running of the operation.

• Continually challenge and improve warehouse processes. Investigate, justify and introduce enhancements.

• Work closely with other functions (production planning, production, finance) to effectively support SIFOT and other operational goals.

• Maintain FIFO stock rotation by utilizing good warehousing practices.

• Identify old or unused stock and manage the obsolescence process (including removal and disposal)

• Maintenance planning for the warehouse areas to anticipate the needs of the business.

• Monitor performance of freight carriers and timeliness.

 

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors Degree

• 5-7 years of proven successful record in warehouse and distribution operations and 3 years leadership experience in a warehousing environment

• Experience with inventory control practices

• Strong SAP knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of MS Office with strong focus on Excel and PowerPoint

• Ability to provide the leadership necessary to establish courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed safely, efficiently and effectively

• Excellent strategic skills, problem solving, analytical skills

• Strong organization, planning and prioritizing skills with attention to detail

• Ability to travel up to 10%

 

Preferred Requirements

• APICS certification

• Experience with Union environment

• Sig Sigma Greenbelt

• SAP S4 Hana experience

• 5S implementation

 

This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship. Applicants must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require H.B. Fuller sponsorship of a work visa to work for H.B. Fuller.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, and geographic location.

The salary for this role is $85,000-$115,000.

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