Hybrid Warehouse Manager bei United Food Bank

Description

Are you motivated to make a difference in your community? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, hands-on environment where every action directly impacts those in need? United Food Bank is seeking an experienced Warehouse Manager to inspire and lead a dedicated team of Warehouse Associates at our main distribution facility. Join our dynamic and growing team, where you can play a crucial part in achieving our mission.

Our Mission and Values:

We are passionate about our Mission of Uniting Communities to Alleviate Hunger. You are most likely to find success at United Food Bank if you are motivated by the following values:

• We are Uniters – working together as one united team.
• We are Cultivators – with a growth mindset and willing to try new things.
• We are Optimists – finding solutions that accomplish our mission.

Position Summary:  As a key player and leader of the Warehouse Team, the Warehouse Manager is responsible for completing daily operations, including receiving, organizing, cleaning, distributing, documenting, and safely handling all food transactions. The Warehouse Manager is responsible for communicating with the team, attending leadership meetings, and ensuring work is properly scheduled and completed. The Warehouse Manager is expected to model excellent behaviors and best practices that motivate the team and contribute to positive morale. This position will occasionally train or coach team members to maintain compliance and improve performance.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Motivates and supervises a team in a way that helps to foster an energizing and cooperative work environment.
• Reviews and approves warehouse staff timecards in payroll system.
• Conducts required 1:1s with immediate staff, monthly warehouse meetings/trainings, and evaluations.
• Effectively communicates the Food Bank’s mission, goals, and day-to-day tasks.
• Provides ongoing workplace training to Operations staff members.
• Monitors work performance and conducts job performance evaluations.
• Assists with a variety of food warehouse duties, including receiving, inspecting, weighing, tagging, and sorting food products, pulling orders, loading orders, and ensuring general maintenance and janitorial duties are accomplished.
• Oversees product flow in and out of the facility, helping to anticipates needs in conjunction with the Director of Food Operations and Inventory Control.
• Provides support with inventory control, ensuring inventory counts are conducted accurately.
• Works with the Director of Food Operations and Inventory Control to ensure product received and distributed is counted accurately and recorded into the software system accurately.
• Assigns appropriate storage locations for product and ensures those assignments are carried out.
• Proactively communicate with the Director of Food Operations and Inventory Control about food product needs.
• Oversees all warehouse equipment, along with building/facility needs, including security and maintenance, and repairs. This includes forklifts, power jacks, cold storage, etc., ensuring optimal operating level of warehouse equipment.
• And any other duties as assigned, with or without notice by Leadership.

Food Safety

• Ensures compliance with all health codes and inspection requirements. Works in tandem with the Safety Team on implementing the Food Bank’s food safety plan.
• Focuses on quality control for all product received, ensuring the product is inspected prior to storage and distribution.
• Assigns daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly cleaning assignments to the warehouse team, ensuring assignments are completed. These include sweeping, mopping, trash removal, temperature checks, and inspections for pest entry points at the base of doors or walls.
• Act as a key coordinator with leadership in food recall situations, overseeing proper product destruction.

Customer Service

• Provides excellent customer service to the charitable food programs we serve and assist with communicating to our customers the foods available.
• Ensures warehouse staff provide excellent customer service. The Warehouse Manager must lead by example to provide exceptional customer service to the volunteers and staff of agencies and charitable feeding programs who source food items from the Food Bank’s warehouse.
• Supervises and supports warehouse staff, including weighing the customers’ food selections by product type (frozen food, dry goods, meat, and produce), documenting the weights in our inventory control system, and generating invoices.
• Assists agencies with loading product on their vehicles if necessary.

General Warehouse

• This position is a hands-on, active managerial position and will participate in general warehouse activities, operate a forklift, operate electric pallet jacks, and other warehouse equipment with proper certification
• Oversees daily operations of the warehouse and in other activities as required.
• Must be able to work in our other warehouse location and help with local distribution events as needed.

Requirements

Qualifications: (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Passion for alleviating hunger and commitment to our mission and values
• College degree or experience commensurate with 2 years of warehouse operations
• A minimum of two years of previous warehouse supervisory and safety program experience
• Preferred experience with Food Safety
• Must become ServSafe Certified within 6 months of hire
• Forklift certification of classes 1, 2, and 3
• Excellent verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic status
• Exhibits qualities of maturity, good judgment, and tact
• Ability to effectively analyze and resolve routine and complex problems
• Basic computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel programs preferred
• Ability to multitask many projects at the same time while meeting deadlines
• Must have a valid Arizona Driver’s License, with clean driving record (required)
• Up to 5% local travel (to distribution events or our other UFB warehouse location)

Physical demands and work environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee 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 sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms on a daily basis.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• The employee must lift and/or move up to 60 pounds.
• Ability to sit at a computer for extended periods and perform repetitive motions with a mouse and keyboard.

In instances of a federal, state, or locally declared emergency, United Food Bank is typically considered an essential service and emergency responder; all of its employees may be called in to perform regular or emergent duties.