Distribution Center Director

Blue Line Foodservice Distribution Inc.; Adel (IA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Disability and adoption benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts

Access to events with sports teams

Descripción de la vacante

Blue Line Distribution, the in-house distributor for Little Caesars Pizza, seeks a DC Director for its Grand Prairie, Texas facility. You will lead the distribution center staff, drive operational efficiency, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance across DOT, FDA, OSHA, and CSA standards.

You will hire and develop drivers, warehouse, and office staff, optimize inbound/outbound flow, and manage customer service while controlling costs to meet profitability goals.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum five years of manager-level experience in transportation/warehouse or eight years in management.
• Strong understanding of DOT, FDA, OSHA, and CSA regulations.

Responsabilidades

• Oversee operations and staff of the distribution center for efficiency and profitability.
• Hire, train, and evaluate branch management and hourly staff.
• Manage customer service, inbound/outbound product flow, and compliance with company policies and laws.
• Develop budgets and action plans to achieve cost controls and profitability.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Communication

Budget forecasting

Regulatory compliance knowledge

XATA hardware familiarity

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Logistics or related field

Herramientas

XATA hardware

Descripción del empleo

Build a Bigger, Better, Bolder Future Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Blue Line Distribution is a company where our colleagues make an impact. Blue Line Distribution, the in-house distributor for Little Caesars Pizza, has been family owned and operated for over 50 years; and is dedicated to leading customized and innovative food service logistics with safety as a top priority. We are now hiring for a DC Director at our facility in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Your Mission

• As the DC Director, you will be responsible for the operation and the staff of the distribution center to ensure maximum efficiency and profitability.
• Hires, trains, develops, and evaluates the performance of branch management and hourly colleagues.
• Manages the customer service aspects of business and the flow of inbound & outbound product, including promotional, small wares and related products.
• Ensures adherence to all company policies as well as all state and federal laws.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Manages the customer service aspects of business.
• Ensures clean deliveries to units.
• Conducts periodic surveys of customer satisfaction.
• Provides feedback and goals to staff and measures improvement.
• Monitor’s flow of scheduled inbound product ordered centrally and locally.
• Reviews all electronic purchase orders and troubleshoots overdue purchase order listing from both vendor and corporate.
• Assists with maintaining inventory turn ratio, fill rate, and controls shrinkage.
• Hires, onboards, and trains drivers, warehouse, and office staff.
• Ensures low level of turnover.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities and supervises branch staff through the appropriate use of communication, delegation, follow up, performance evaluation and positive reinforcement to ensure direction is implemented properly.
• Conducts performance reviews, both formal and informal, to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the staff.
• Also conducts driver ride-alongs standard= 1 ride-along with each driver in branch annually: and warehouse visits standard=2 visits to either afternoon or midnight shift per 4-week period.
• Coordinates activities associated with payroll, unemployment, workers compensation, disability and other personnel related matters.
• Budgets for and develops action plans to achieve budgeted cost controls and profitability goals.
• Monitors daily, weekly and period-end sales and cost control figures.
• Maximizes truck and labor potential by establishing routes to maintain proper truck utilization and meeting goal for cubes per truck and average load weight.
• Maintains ideal restaurant processing time.
• Schedule’s drivers and warehouse personnel according to set labor hours prescribed.
• Maintains work environment that is safe, secure and in compliance with government laws, DOT, FDA, OSHA and company policies.
• Ensures compliance and use of XATA computer hardware.
• Ensures all accident report procedures are properly followed.
• Obtains an excellent rating (3 Star Award Standard 4/ Star Award Goal) from Quality Assurance department and the American Institute of Baking (AIB) for the branch standard=excellent rating; goal=superior rating.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Business Administration, or related degree with minimum of five (5) years manager-level experience within the transportation/warehouse industry, or equivalent of 8 years managerial experience.
• Possesses a strong understanding of DOT, FDA, OSHA, and CSA compliance requirements, company policies and all national and state regulations and the ability to enforce them.
• Four years of experience in food service distribution industry.
• Excellent communications skills, the ability to lead and motivate colleagues.
• Prior experience forecasting and managing operating budgets as well as communicating variance.

All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Blue Line Distribution.

Blue Line Distribution is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

This company participates in E-Verify.

At Little Caesars® Pizza and Blue Line Foodservice Distribution ®, you’re part of a dynamic team in the pizza business. Known for innovation and home of the exclusive Pizza Portal® pickup, Little Caesars is an international brand with a household name – a global company with family-owned restaurants in your neighborhood. Blue Line® sources and delivers ingredients to neighborhoods throughout the U.S. so we can make our famous Hot-N-Ready® pizzas, Crazy Bread®, Caesar Wings®, and more, fulfilling our customer promise.

Little Caesars Fundraising proudly helps raise millions of dollars for thousands of schools, churches, sports teams, and other nonprofit organizations.

Backed by the global pizza brand, customers of Little Caesars Fundraising enjoy products they can make at home or pick up in stores.

Our colleagues are the heart and soul of the business – whether you work in the stores, one of our warehouses, the corporate office, or your home office, Little Caesars, Blue Line and Little Caesars Fundraising colleagues work together to make a big impact in communities around the world.

• Full time colleagues qualify for a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• paid holidays and paid time off
• legal and counseling services
• flexible spending accounts
• disability and adoption benefits
• and more
• Colleagues also enjoy the perks of being associated with professional sports teams and have access to events at Little Caesars Arena and Comerica Park in our hometown of Detroit, Michigan.