Warehouse Supervisor

Compass Group Canada; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Group Canada is seeking a Warehouse Supervisor to oversee an hourly workforce and ensure safe, efficient warehouse operations in Edmonton. The role focuses on shipping/receiving, inventory control, and staffing coordination to meet customer requirements.

You will drive continuous improvement, supervise in accordance with policy and collective agreements, and partner with the Operations Manager to optimize performance and wages.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education required.
• Supervisory experience in warehouse or distribution environments.
• Strong adherence to productivity, quality and safety standards.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Applies best practices and seeks process improvements.
• Able to work various shifts and extend hours when required.

Responsibilities

• Manage an hourly workforce in accordance with company policies and the collective agreement, including safety, training, performance management and attendance.
• Coordinate shipping, receiving, warehousing, order picking and cycle counts to ensure on-time customer orders.
• Inventory management including ordering, maintaining levels and ensuring distribution and turnover.
• Maintain inventory system and recommend streamlining to improve maintenance.
• Coordinate warehouse slotting to improve accuracy and picking/ loading efficiency.
• Ensure quality, cleanliness, customer service and policy compliance.
• Execute shipments, create warehouse tasks and orders, assess product availability and update orders.
• Provide operational performance information to the Operations Manager.
• Ensure adequate workforce resources for operational delivery and advise on staffing changes.
• Ensure all warehouse staff are trained in health, safety and food safety policies.
• Review hours worked and process payroll for hours worked.
• Perform other project work as assigned by management.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Shift flexibility

Education

Post-secondary education

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Now, if you were to come on board as aWarehouse Supervisor, we’d ask you to do the following for us:

• Manage an hourly workforce employees in a fair and equitable manner in accordance with company policies, procedures and the collective agreement to deliver operational and work environment objectives including communications, safety, training, performance management, work assignment, attendance management, competency assessment, coaching, and discipline.
• Coordinate the shipping, receiving, warehousing of product, order picking and cycle counts to ensure all customer orders are shipped on time in accordance with customer specifications.
• Inventory management including the ordering of inventory, maintain inventory levels and ensuring product distribution and turn over.
• Maintain inventory management system and make recommendations to streamline operations and improve the inventory maintenance process.
• Coordinate warehouse inventory slotting activities to drive inventory accuracy and warehouse picking/loading efficiency.
• Ensure quality, cleanliness, customer service and company policies and programs are maintained.
• Responsible for executing shipments, creating warehouse tasks and warehouse orders, assessing product availability of orders, update orders as required.
• Provide required operational performance and delivery information to the Operations Manager.
• Ensure adequate workforce resources are available for operational delivery and proposed additions / reductions to the Operations Manager to acquire/reduce resources accordingly.
• Ensure all warehouse employees are properly trained in health & safety and food safety policy / procedures and the duties and responsibilities of their current role.
• Review employee hours worked into the payroll system timely wage payment to employees for hours worked.
• Other project work as assigned by management.

Think you have what it takes to be ourWarehouse Supervisor? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you will be successful:

• Post-secondary education.
• Supervisory experience in a warehouse and or distribution environment
• Strong adherence to meeting productivity, quality and safety standards.
• Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Strong analytical and communication skills required
• Applies best practices and seeks out opportunities to improve processes.
• Able to work various shifts and extend working hours whenever required.