Warehouse Supervisor

nVent; Aberdeen (WA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent is seeking a Warehouse Leader in Washington to supervise daily warehouse operations, drive lean improvements, and oversee safety initiatives. The role requires coordinating ordering, distribution, and personnel activities while partnering with Customer Service to resolve quality issues.

Ideal candidates will have a background in distribution with leadership experience and a track record of improving safety, productivity, and service levels in a dynamic, global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred.
• Ideally 3 years previous experience in a distribution environment and 3 years in a leadership position.
• Skills:
• Abilities:

Responsibilities

• Supervises daily warehouse activities including planning, directing, and coordinating the ordering and distribution of products, parts, and accessories, manpower, maintenance of the warehouse.
• Lead day-to-day activities of the warehouse including safety, planning, organizing and execution of all activities including personnel administration, performance evaluations, work assignments.
• Provide leadership and work direction to team ensuring that resources adequate to meet key requirements related to safety, service levels, cost, and productivity.
• Assist the quality manager with the investigation and review of quality claims, partner with Customer Service as needed to provide resolution to customer.
• Drive data driven quality improvements leveraging the Lean and Quality Root Cause Countermeasure Investigation process, ensuring containment actions are in place while eliminating the root cause.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of each team member’s role, responsibilities, and workflows to ensure effective guidance, training, balanced workload distribution, and consistent operational performance.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional projects and kaizen events involving the continuous improvement of distribution/logistics concepts.
• Drive Zero Harm culture by developing a proactive approach to safety through the Risk Notification process and leading the department Safety Committee.
• Be highly visible to associates and create an environment for participation. Promote hands‑on approach to problem solving.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Supervises daily warehouse activities including planning, directing, and coordinating the ordering and distribution of products, parts, and accessories, manpower, maintenance of the warehouse.
• Lead day-to-day activities of the warehouse including safety, planning, organizing and execution of all activities including personnel administration, performance evaluations, work assignments. Spend a minimum of 50% of scheduled work hours on the warehouse floor to provide real-time supervision, support, coaching, and workflow oversight.
• Provide leadership and work direction to team ensuring that resources adequate to meet key requirements related to safety, service levels, cost, and productivity.
• Assist the quality manager with the investigation and review of quality claims, partner with Customer Service as needed to provide resolution to customer.
• Drive data driven quality improvements leveraging the Lean and Quality Root Cause Countermeasure Investigation process, ensuring containment actions are in place while eliminating the root cause.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of each team member’s role, responsibilities, and workflows to ensure effective guidance, training, balanced workload distribution, and consistent operational performance. Able to back up these roles as needed in team members absence.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional projects and kaizen events involving the continuous improvement of distribution/logistics concepts.
• Drive Zero Harm culture by developing a proactive approach to safety through the Risk Notification process and leading the department Safety Committee.
• Be highly visible to associates and create an environment for participation. Promote hands‑on approach to problem solving.

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred.
• Ideally 3 years previous experience in a distribution environment and 3 years in a leadership position.
• Skills:
• Abilities:

WE HAVE:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day
• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back‑up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well‑being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.