Warehouse Coordinator

Hilmar Cheese Company; Dodge City (KS); On-site; USD 76,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilmar Cheese Company is seeking a Warehouse Coordinator to lead daily supply chain warehousing and distribution operations with emphasis on safety, quality, and efficiency. You will drive productivity, coach staff, and work across departments to ensure inventory integrity and on-time customer service.

The role requires at least 3 years of supervisory experience in warehousing or production, and proficiency in English and Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• English must be proficient to read, write, and communicate clearly.
• Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience in production or warehousing.
• Experience with Microsoft Office; Word, Excel and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate warehousing and distribution operations with emphasis on safety, quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Suggest improvements to productivity, quality and efficiency of operations.
• Lead and motivate staff to highest level of efficiency and productivity.
• Coach and develop personnel through training and company resources.
• Monitor trends and proactively address potential problems.
• Assist management with planning budgets, goals, and business unit objectives.
• Implement cost-control systems over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries.
• Collaborate with customer service, warehouse, and production to reconcile inventory.
• Oversee SOPs and daily activity reporting.
• Ensure food safety and GMP compliance; maintain a safe workplace.
• Participate in audits and safety trainings.
• Promote company culture and teamwork.

Skills

English proficiency

3 years supervisory experience

Microsoft Office

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

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At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula. We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in more than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

A Typical Day

The Warehouse Coordinator is responsible for Coordinating and leading the day to day Supply Chain Warehouse and Distribution functions in support of safety, quality, and efficiency to meet HCC objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate warehousing and distribution operational activities with emphasis on food safety, quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction
• Makes recommendations to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency of operations
• Lead and Motivate employees to highest level of efficiency and productivity
• Development of personnel through coaching, training, and utilization of company resources
• Recognizes trends/indicators and reacts proactively to address potential problems
• Assist management with planning and directing budgets, goals, and business unit objectives
• Implements cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries
• Works with customer service; warehouse, production to reconcile all inventory discrepancies in all finished goods warehouses
• Responsible for SOP implementations/changes and daily activity reporting
• Oversees physical counts and inventory on both the Cheese and Whey side of the business
• Lead adherence to all safety and GMP guidelines and work to provide a clean and safe work environment for all employees and visitors
• Leading and resolving problems that cannot be resolved at the supervisory level
• Involved in all internal and external audits/inspections
• Complete annual OSHA Regulatory training and Company safety program training.
• Complete annual OSHA regulatory safety training.
• Complete annual Food Safety overview training
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off.
• Help coach and train teammates and participate in on the job, buddy training.
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
• Hold self and others accountable to HCC’s food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
• Participate in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required.
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by having a safety first approach at all times.
• Report any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your teams and follow up.
• Participate in departmental safety teams.
• Promote Company Culture
• Achieve common business goals through cooperative alignment with all departments.

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• High school diploma or GED from an accredited institution.
• 3 years supervisory experience of production or warehousing staff
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel and Outlook

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Experienced in SAP
• Experience and knowledge of general warehousing and distribution for large scale food manufacturer or related industry experience.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within the cheese plant.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.

Salary Range: USD ($75,539.00 - $113,309.00) ANN