Warehouse Supervisor

nVent; Aberdeen (AR); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent is seeking a Warehouse Supervisor to oversee daily warehouse activities, lead safety initiatives, and drive continuous improvement. This role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate across teams to meet safety and production goals.

The ideal candidate has several years of leadership experience in distribution and a solid command of Microsoft Office tools. This role emphasizes on-site supervision and active involvement on the warehouse floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred.
• 3 years in distribution environment and 3 years in a leadership position.
• Proficient Microsoft Office suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Supervises daily warehouse activities including planning, directing, and coordinating orders and distribution.
• Lead day-to-day activities on safety, planning, organizing, and execution with 50% floor time.
• Provide leadership to ensure safety, service levels, cost, and productivity.
• Assist quality manager with investigations and customer resolution.
• Drive data-driven quality improvements using Lean and RCA processes.
• Demonstrates knowledge of team roles and back up as needed.
• Participate in cross-functional projects and kaizen events.
• Promote a Zero Harm safety culture and lead Safety Committee.
• Be highly visible and promote hands-on problem solving.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Adaptability

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

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:

  • Proficient Microsoft Office suite. Specifically, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

  • Attention to detail and accuracy.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• Abilities:

  • Ability to adapt rapidly to changes and function in a high-stress, high-pressure environment with a positive attitude. Be able to be successful in constantly evolving business environment.

  • Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize time/workload and delegate work in order to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.

  • Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, both internal and external, and establish credibility with business partners.

  • Ability to effectively mentor and foster staff growth and development.

  • Ability to evaluate and motivate personnel.

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

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• 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.