Shift Manager

Job Summary

Job Description

Experience Required: 5 to 10 years
Experience Desired: Five years experience in distribution operations in a supervisory / management capacity.
Education Desired: Bachelors Degree
Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%

Job Responsibilities

• Actively promote an environment focused on safety, including a proactive and preventive focus on safety related issues pertaining to Team Members, products and equipment.
• Monitor distribution center activities and immediately addresses safety issues and incidents.
• Provide assistance to the Distribution Center Operations Manager by evaluating and recommending alternatives to work methods and procedures to continually improve the department and the operation.
• Schedule distribution center Team Members and allocate job assignments to ensure production demands are accomplished in a safe and efficient manner.
• Provide clear, definitive input and direction advocating constructive work processes, improved job knowledge, Team Member engagement and development for all distribution center Team Members on a shift.
• Provide ongoing onboarding and training for newly hired Team Members by communicating Company expectations and constructive feedback.
• Encourage commitment to Company values and goals by modeling professional behavior and fostering a long-term durable employment relationship.
• Maintain reporting systems in order to provide distribution center management with accurate accounts of shift and production activities.
• Monitor daily schedules and adjust staffing levels according to distribution center volume.
• Maintain operational integrity of assigned shift — ensuring processes are effectively established, followed, monitored and optimized.
• Engage counterparts and maintain communications with counterparts on other shifts to ensure continual, smooth operations.
• Facilitate effective and timely communication to Team Members by being accessible, responsive and resolving issues in a timely manner.