Lean Warehouse Supervisor: Cold-Chain & Inventory Lead

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Durham, NC seeks a hands-on leader to grow the material handling team in a cold chain environment. You will coach, empower, and work side-by-side with the team on receiving, put-away, picking, material supply, and inventory accuracy.

The role oversees warehouse operations, implements 5S, ensures FIFO, and drives continuous improvement with production planning to optimize the value stream. Onsite day shift with strict safety practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum AA, BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of three years of experience in managing warehouse activities and material flow in a manufacturing environment.
• Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile.
• Proven track record of being an effective people leader and leading/growing highly functional teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Kanban systems and other Lean material flow practices.
• Ability to provide positive direction by encouraging peers to have a commitment to high standards of quality and performance.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on task, player-coach, ability to step in and perform hard tasks.
• Knowledge of inventory control systems, processes, and root cause analysis.
• Expert knowledge of safety requirements and material handling equipment operation.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, develop, and motivate warehouse personnel to follow procedures, meet high level quality standards, production schedules, operations dept goals, and productivity requirements.
• Make sure current processes are properly documented and drive process improvement and simplification.
• Ensure freezers, dry goods warehouse, and work area are maintained to 5S standards and FIFO is adhered to with all material movements.
• Continuously perform gap analysis on documents related to warehouse operations such as SOP, DOP, WI, VA, and update as required
• Work with Inventory Control to analyze and correct issues related to storage quantities and inventory discrepancies.
• Provide vision and direction to team and drive training to Lean Material flow practices.
• Ensure that optimal inventory levels of commodities are maintained to meet production requirements.
• Ensure that company procedures, including APHIS requirements, are understood and adhered to.
• Responsible for managing employee training record completion and status.
• Evaluate and provide annual performance feedback to direct reports along with interim counseling to ensure performance criteria are being met.
• Implement Short-Term Problem Containment and Long-Term Corrective Action for warehouse issues.
• Drive continuous improvement of current systems and processes and work closely with production planning and management to optimize the value stream opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Inventory control

Lean

Kanban

SAP

MS Office

Education

AA/BS degree or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems (SAP)

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Durham, NC seeks a hands-on leader to grow the material handling team in a cold chain environment. You will coach, empower, and work side-by-side with the team on receiving, put-away, picking, material supply, and inventory accuracy.

The role oversees warehouse operations, implements 5S, ensures FIFO, and drives continuous improvement with production planning to optimize the value stream. Onsite day shift with strict safety practices.