Manager, Supply Chain Warehouse

Celestica; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica is seeking a Supply Chain Warehouse Manager to orchestrate daily warehouse activities and optimize operations. You will bridge procurement, logistics, and the end customer to ensure products arrive on time and within budget.

The role requires 7–10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. You will lead a diverse team, implement KPIs, and drive continuous improvement across all warehouse functions in a US facility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong knowledge of warehouse management systems and ERP tools.
• Experience leading warehouse teams and managing inventory controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee receiving, warehousing, distribution, and maintenance operations.
• Lead cycle counts and physical audits to ensure 99%+ inventory accuracy.
• Recruit, train, and mentor warehouse staff; set KPIs and conduct appraisals.
• Utilize WMS/ERP systems to track goods and generate reports for senior management.
• Ensure OSHA and local regulatory compliance; manage material handling equipment maintenance.
• Manage department budget, control costs, and negotiate with freight carriers or vendors.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Technical Proficiency

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Manhattan Associates

Job description

As a Supply Chain Warehouse Manager, you will orchestrate the daily activities of the warehouse facility. Your primary mission is to optimize operational workflows, manage a diverse team, and maintain rigorous inventory controls. You will serve as the bridge between procurement, logistics, and the end customer, ensuring that the right products reach the right place at the right time.

Req ID: 138547
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: Texas
City: Fort Worth

Summary

As a Supply Chain Warehouse Manager, you will orchestrate the daily activities of the warehouse facility. Your primary mission is to optimize operational workflows, manage a diverse team, and maintain rigorous inventory controls. You will serve as the bridge between procurement, logistics, and the end customer, ensuring that the right products reach the right place at the right time.

Detailed Description

• Operational Excellence: Oversee receiving, warehousing, distribution, and maintenance operations.
• Inventory Management: Lead cycle counts and physical audits to ensure 99%+ inventory accuracy. Manage stock levels to prevent bottlenecks or overstocking.
• Team Leadership: Recruit, train, and mentor warehouse staff. Set performance KPIs, conduct appraisals, and foster a culture of safety and accountability.
• Technology Integration: Utilize Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and ERP software to track goods and generate analytical reports for senior management.
• Safety & Compliance: Ensure the facility meets all OSHA and local regulatory standards. Oversee the maintenance of material handling equipment (MHE) like forklifts and conveyors.
• Cost Control: Manage the department budget, focusing on reducing waste, optimizing labor costs, and negotiating with freight carriers or vendors.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Strategic Planning: Ability to forecast labor needs and space requirements based on seasonal trends.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of WMS (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or Manhattan Associates) and Microsoft Excel.
• Problem Solving: Quick thinking to resolve logistics delays, equipment failures, or inventory discrepancies.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with truck drivers, vendors, and corporate executives.

Physical Demands

• Mobility: Ability to walk and stand for extended periods on concrete warehouse floors.
• Lifting: Ability to occasionally lift and move items weighing up to 25 pounds
• Environment: Comfortable working in varying temperatures (some warehouses are climate-controlled, others are not) and around loud machinery.
• Vision/Hearing: Must have the sensory acuity to operate or oversee the operation of heavy machinery and maintain situational awareness.

Typical Experience

• Seven to ten years of relevant experience

Typical Education

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Company Overview

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full‑scale production and after‑market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next‑generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.