Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor
Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Why work for Dawn Foods?
PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.
Why should you apply? We invest in you!
- Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
- Competitive Pay
- 401(K) + company match
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Time Off
- Professional training
- Family-owned business over 100 years in service
- An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
Shift Schedule:
Sunday shift starts at Noon
Monday - Thursday shift starts at 2 pm
Shift is typically 8-10 hours
Job Purpose and Overview
The Warehouse Supervisor at Dawn Foods is responsible for overseeing order selection pulling and loading responsibilities. Daily operations of the warehouse, including freight, shipping and receiving, returns, and transfers. Labor requirement planning and adherence to budgeted guidelines. Review and enforcement of sanitation practices. Securing the facility at the completion of shifts. Responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and mentoring department team members.
What will you do as a Warehouse Supervisor at Dawn Foods?
- Supervises the daily work and safety of team members engaged in order selection, receiving, product replenishment, and order loading, including all warehouse functions, selectors, loaders, and MHE operators. Secures the facility at the completion of the shift.
- Develop and execute standard operating procedures, including full utilization of a warehouse management system. Ensure the team has the necessary equipment and required documentation to complete shift responsibilities.
- Fosters, supports, and maintains a Safety and Quality driven work environment for all team members. Reflects a willingness and commitment to support a "Stop Work" philosophy for all safety and quality concerns. Enforces and adheres to Good Manufacturing Practices/Personal Hygiene requirements and supports pest prevention best practices.
- Generate distribution/service center productivity reports regarding labor standards, and accounts for all labor hours, adhering to budget requirements and works toward obtaining Dawn objectives and divisional goals.
- Customer billing
- Review warehouse functions and various warehouse productivity reporting. Uses metrics/data to evaluate and improve receiving, storing, and distributing processes. Suggests efficiency ideas, cost reduction measures and assists with the implementation of changes within the warehouse.
- Monitors receiving, storing, and distributing metrics to ensure they are consistent with Dawn's performance standards.
- Plans, develops and implements warehouse safety, quality, and security programs and activities in partnership with the site leader, regional safety, and corporate quality team.
- Complies with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies (i.e. OSHA, AIB, FDA, USDA, etc.)
- Fosters an inclusive culture in a manner that embraces the ideas and contributions of each team member. Prioritizes team member relations through regular pre-shift meetings and ensures consistent, open communication with team members. Consistently reviews the team performance and creates development plans for team member improvement.
- Demonstrate the “Dawn Values” of Team Dawn and supports the Circle of Excellence
What Does It Take to be a Warehouse Supervisor at Dawn Foods?
Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.
- High school diploma or GED Required
- Four years of experience in a warehouse or distribution environment is required (i.e. knowledge of warehouse operations; JBA system and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
- Requires the ability to safely operate a forklift and other heavy warehouse equipment
- Computer skills required
- Demonstrated front-line leadership, planning, and organization skills.
- Requires strong oral, written, and communication skills
- Must be able to handle many diversified tasks at one time and correctly prioritize conflicting, time-sensitive tasks.
- Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, team building, and team-based approach decision-making skills.
- SAP Experience Preferred
- Lean Six Sigma experience preferred
Physical Demands & Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to grasp, move, or utilize objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to use sensory perception for quality measurement of products.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus
- Temperature fluctuates with the season – colder during the winter/warmer during the summer
- Working around heavy machinery – hearing protection is required in the production area
- The normal setting for this job is a warehouse/office.
- Will be exposed to a physical environment, which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes, or similar elements most of the workday.
Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”
About Our Benefits
Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.
Compensation
$65,380 - $100,690 + Bonus potential
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 36223