Warehouse Manager

Company Statement

Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision. We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce. We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Overview

Warehouse Managers are responsible for the management of all logistic personnel and the overall responsibility for the material handling, receiving, shipping and warehouse operations and coordinating activities with the other departments in a manner which will result in meeting production schedules and customer delivery dates consistent with the Company policy and plant objectives.

Responsibilities

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Accountable for the safety and housekeeping of the assigned shipping, receiving, and logistic operations.
• Responsible for the selection, training and development of the logistic line and staff personnel to attain department goals.
• Exercises direct supervisory control for the quality of work performed by the logistic staff for the operation.
• Works with Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, and Shift Supervisors to ensure production schedules are fulfilled based on customer forecasts.
• Uses tools such as SAP/MRP and other Windows based applications to manage and deliver superior performance to Graham and our customer.
• Report potential problems to appropriate Manager prior to reaching crisis point.
• Review and control inventory levels.
• Develop Min/max inventories on products with customer commitment.
• Prepare Daily and Weekly Schedules
• Manage the customer service function including inventories, forecasts, reports and Communications.
• Support Commercial team with customer score card/KPI maintenance
• Work with Operations Manager to update Crewing Model on a weekly basis
• Provide production with material schedule to assist Operations Manager in regrind consumption.
• Work with Operations Manager to optimize OTIF % and troubleshoot issues.
• Work with Maintenance Manager to optimize Preventative Maintenance scheduling window.
• Work with Plant Controller and Operations Manager to set and adjust production forecast.
• Work with Customer Schedulers to monitor upcoming changes to the forecasts to reduce breakdowns in continuous productions and optimize Plant MOEE.
• Coordinates with the maintenance manager on the preventive maintenance required for the logistic equipment.
• Supervises the taking of all physical monthly, quarterly and year end inventories in accordance with corporate guidelines. Coordinating this activity with the production scheduler to verify the physical inventory of bottles, cases, partitions and labels and investigates variances from book inventory.
• Develops new methods and procedures to optimize shipping efficiency, reduce costs and maximize space utilization.
• Arranges with transportation coordinator for trailers and carriers for pickups and road loads.
• Establishes FIFO (First In/First Out).
• May be responsible for special projects related to other functional areas.
• Limited travel may be required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree and/or related quality experience; or equivalent combination of education and related quality experience is required. A minimum of five years’ experience in a warehouse supervisory or management role in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated leadership skills strongly preferred.
• Warehouse Managers are required to interact with managers, employees, vendors, and customers. Therefore, the following skills and proficiencies are als