Warehouse Training Supervisor: Develop Leaders & Skills

Sonepar; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Dental & vision

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

401(k) retirement savings with company

Professional development programs

Job summary

Crawford Electric Supply is hiring a Warehouse Training Supervisor to develop and manage training programs for warehouse associates, leads, and supervisors across shifts. You will lead onboarding, safety, and process training, ensuring consistent performance and adherence to standard work.

Partner with Operations and Safety to drive continuous improvement, build talent pipelines, and maintain certification records.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of warehouse, distribution, logistics, or operations experience.
• 2+ years of training, supervision, lead, or leadership experience.
• Experience in high-volume distribution center operations preferred.
• Experience with WMS systems, RF scanning, warehouse automation, and LMS/training tracking tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve all CDC onboarding and role-based training programs.
• Develop, update, and maintain standardized training materials, SOPs, work instructions, checklists, and certification documents.
• Coordinate training for receiving and put-away, picking, packing, loadout and shipping, inventory control, wire operations, transportation, and automation systems.
• Build and maintain department skill matrices and cross-training plans to improve labor flexibility and shift coverage.
• Lead new-hire orientation and CDC facility onboarding.
• Ensure associates complete all required safety, operational, equipment, and system training before being released to independent work.
• Track onboarding progress through 30-, 60-, and 90-day milestones.
• Partner with department leaders to validate readiness, productivity, work quality, and safe work behaviors.
• Conduct process observations, training audits, and follow-up validations across all shifts.
• Identify training gaps tied to productivity misses, safety incidents, inventory errors, shipping defects, customer service failures, or repeat process breakdowns.
• Develop corrective training plans and refresher training to address performance gaps.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and reinforce standard work expectations.
• Facilitate training paths for Leads, Supervisors, and emerging leaders.
• Support succession planning by identifying and developing high-potential associates.
• Assist leaders with coaching, accountability conversations, and performance development routines.
• Create structured training paths that prepare associates for expanded responsibility.
• Ensure all operational training reflects company safety expectations and site-specific requirements.
• Coordinate forklift, PIT, lockout/tagout, PPE, equipment, and other compliance-related certifications as applicable.
• Partner with Safety Leadership during incident reviews and corrective action follow-up.
• Maintain training compliance records and audit-ready documentation.
• Maintain accurate training records, certifications, recertification schedules, and completion documentation.
• Track training completion rates, overdue requirements, and compliance gaps.
• Publish routine training metrics and updates for CDC leadership.
• Manage LMS records or other training tracking tools, where applicable

Skills

Facilitation

Communication

Presentation

Coaching

Leadership

Tools

WMS systems

RF scanning

Warehouse automation

LMS/training tracking tools

Job description

Crawford Electric Supply is hiring a Warehouse Training Supervisor to develop and manage training programs for warehouse associates, leads, and supervisors across shifts. You will lead onboarding, safety, and process training, ensuring consistent performance and adherence to standard work.

Partner with Operations and Safety to drive continuous improvement, build talent pipelines, and maintain certification records.