2nd Shift Warehouse Supervisor: Lead & Optimize Operations

World Wide Technology; Edwardsville (IL); On-site; USD 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Profit Sharing

401k with Company Matching

Life and Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Job summary

World Wide Technology is seeking a Warehouse Supervisor for the ATR - 2nd Shift in Edwardsville, IL to lead a team of 10-25 personnel across receiving, moving, picking, and shipping operations. The role reports to a Warehouse Manager and focuses on safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

You will oversee scheduling, capacity planning, and adherence to 5S and safety protocols while driving process improvement and collaboration with warehouse teams to meet production goals.

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree.
• Experience operating a Powered Industrial Truck (PIT), hand truck, pallet jack, and other warehouse equipment.
• 5+ years of warehousing experience preferred.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Review safety protocols and processes for best practices of equipment operation, making recommendations as needed for enhancements.
• Identify the interrelatedness of work activities across teams and recommend improvements to processes to increase effectiveness.
• Remove team barriers to implementing new ideas or approaches by securing the necessary resources or support from senior management.
• Ensure process improvement initiatives focus on measurable results, and help teams establish measures of success.
• Provide insight on ways to address short-term production capacity constraints or issues (e.g., through increasing the number of workers or machines, increasing the number of shifts, sub-contracting arrangements).
• Guide the ordering, shipping, and warehousing processes to ensure a consistent flow for production; implement new strategies and designs to improve the movement of materials.
• Conduct a deep review of data and issues to quickly reveal the root cause of problem.
• Recommend interim and long-term solutions to complex problems to ensure successful resolution.
• Execute solutions to complex problems; guide the analysis of a problem all the way to a successful resolution.
• Listen attentively, clarifying messages and expectations and asking thoughtful questions to determine any unstated needs of the speaker.
• Respond to others’ non-verbal behavior and pick up on the true message, whether spoken or unspoken.
• Validate the intent of the message and offer appropriate constructive input.
• Consider team members’ time commitments in creating schedules and project plans, carefully structuring the amount of time devoted to each task.
• Follow up and keep others (i.e., senior leaders and team members) informed of progress on tasks and project responsibilities.
• Define the objectives and resources required to successfully complete a project and manage the team to complete work within established timeframes.
• Promote WWT safety guidelines.
• Drive teams to maintain a clean and organized (5S) warehouse operation.

Skills

PIT operation

Hand truck

Pallet jack

Verbal communication

Written communication

Computer skills

Education

Associate's degree

Job description

World Wide Technology is seeking a Warehouse Supervisor for the ATR - 2nd Shift in Edwardsville, IL to lead a team of 10-25 personnel across receiving, moving, picking, and shipping operations. The role reports to a Warehouse Manager and focuses on safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

You will oversee scheduling, capacity planning, and adherence to 5S and safety protocols while driving process improvement and collaboration with warehouse teams to meet production goals.