Supervisor, Warehouse

Tronair; Swanton Township (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tronair is seeking a Supervisor, Warehouse to lead daily receiving, material handling, put-away, kitting, and order fulfillment for manufacturing and OSS orders. You will coach a team of about 20, balance staffing with capacity, and drive improvements across areas to meet schedule and quality targets.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, development of performance metrics, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to maintain efficient warehouse operations and timely customer service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years related experience or training in a manufacturing/warehouse leadership role.
• Experience leading or supporting CI, Kaizen, or Gemba events is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for one-on-one and group settings.
• Ability to develop and monitor department performance metrics and KPIs.
• Ability to plan workloads according to capacity and drive productivity improvements.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coach a team of ~20 across multiple areas to meet daily goals.
• Assign daily work schedules and ensure completion to quality standards.
• Escalate issues and ensure on-time completion of work.
• Develop and implement process improvements with the team.
• Build cross-department partnerships and align with leadership plantwide.
• Develop training materials and SOPs for current and new staff.
• Conduct performance conversations and corrective actions as needed.

Skills

Leadership

CI/Kaizen

Gemba

Communication

Staffing/Scheduling

Performance metrics

Data analysis

Education

High school diploma or GED

College degree preferred

Tools

Paperless

XA

Job description

The Supervisor, Warehouse, is responsible for managing all daily operations related to receiving, material handling and put-away and overall warehouse organization/management, kitting and material picking for manufacturing orders and customer orders, and inbound/outbound for OSS.

Essential Functions

• Confidently and successfully supervises, coaches, develop, and leads a team of roughly 20 individuals across multiple areas to achieve daily, weekly, and periodic departmental goals. Recognizes individual team member strengths and opportunities and creates pathways to operational achievement based on these identified skills.
• Ensure daily work schedules are assigned appropriately, staff are allocated properly, and assigned work is completed each day to quality standards. Can appropriately plan workload given knowledge of capacity and consistently work to improve productivity to increase effective capacity.
• Ensures that each area clears its daily scheduled work, appropriately escalates issues that the department cannot independently resolve, and that work is completed according to schedule.
• Identifies key areas of operational success, creates and develops output and efficiency metrics, and supports process growth and change to achieve established goals. Utilizes team to explore improvement opportunities and implement departmental changes while also demonstrating continuous improvement. Executes improvement plans with independence, confidence, and trust.
• Successfully builds teams to operate cohesively and in unity with one another as well as between departments. Creates and nurtures strong supportive partnerships between department staff and leadership plantwide.
• Demonstrates forward-looking vision and develops plans for a future business state.
• Ensure staff are adequately trained to properly achieve the department objectives; this includes training in our management systems (Paperless and XA) as well as training in proper procedures; if procedures do not exist or are not adequate, takes the lead in developing and rolling out required procedures and associated measures. Works with Manager to develop training materials and SOP for new employees as well as existing employee development.
• Reviews and follows up on all HR-related forms, administers corrective action, and takes appropriate actions to correct the situation and improve the department; is comfortable having performance / behavior improvement conversations with employees.
• Works directly with Team Leaders in Receiving, Outside Service processing, and Material Handling to ensure each department meets expectations of its down-stream customers in terms of timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and responsiveness. Develop Team Leaders and support individualized growth plans.
• Demonstrates an "ownership mindset" in decision making that is thorough, detailed, actionable, and timely.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); college degree preferred
• At least 5 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1-2 years of direct experience with leading or supporting CI, Kaizen, or Gemba events and culture.
• Ability to quickly read, comprehend, and respond to a range of communications - from simple to complex - that come in the form of instructions, verbal directives, short correspondence, and emails.
• Ability to write professional correspondence primarily via email
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and/or other employees of the organization.

Mathematical, Analytical, and Reporting Skills

• Ability to develop and implement Key Performance Metrics appropriate to the departments being managed; enable and manage on-going reporting and assessment of performance to target
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to conduct analysis to create understanding of root causes and to drive corrective action and improvement

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in primarily standardized situations.

Physical Requirements

• Frequently listen and communicate with others
• Frequently required to sit and work at a computer, sometimes for an extended period of time.
• Frequently required to stand and walk.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted.
• Manufacturing shop and office environment
  • Exposure to noise, heat/cold, fumes, and dust while in the manufacturing facility.
  • Office environment is usually quiet.

This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Critical features of this job are described below the headings above. They are subject to change at any time in the course of normal business operations.

Tronair is an EEO/AA employer - Disabled/Veteran