Imagine when
You are a vital member of our growth-minded, industry-leading, innovative, brand-driven, global employee-owned company. You are challenged to grow, expected to challenge others, are part of something much bigger than yourself, and leave an indelible legacy through the people your life has impacted.
You have the opportunity to be the point-person for driving the effectiveness of our warehouse operations and logistics. In this role, you will implement strategies that optimize workflows, mitigate inventory risks, and ensure our fulfillment scales seamlessly alongside our ambitious growth targets.
Your assignment
The Distribution and Operations Lead is responsible for the effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and cleanliness of warehouse operations and facilities. They are a forward-thinking distribution and logistics expert who ensures warehouse operations are optimized to current benchmark standards. Through their leadership, they will set standards, create plans, and lead projects that their team of order pickers, Hi-Lo drivers, and packagers achieve.
This leader will be willing to step in and help as needed to achieve our aggressive growth goals. Partnering with the VP of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain, Director of Operations, and other members of the team, they will understand and achieve our overall company goals for operations, leading the needed performance of the warehouse team.
Essential duties:
- Effectively hire, train, onboard, develop, and lead a strong team of warehouse pickers and Hi-Lo drivers.
- Leverage temporary help as needed to meet golas while managing costs.
- Assess shipping and receiving needs of each day and strategically allocate the team and other needed resources to maximize efficiency and productivity.
- Reconcile inventory across the Agility and Epicor systems.
- Conduct continuous improvement audits and projects to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the warehouse.
- Participate in setting annual budget and manage to that plan throughout the year through expense review, capital expense management and other spend control methods.
- Create long term plans and strategies that ensure the company has the equipment and employees to meet current and future needs.
- Ensure a safe and secure warehouse environment through effective policies and procedures and partnership with OSHA as needed.
- Monitor work quality and ensure safe use of all warehouse equipment.
- Create, maintain, and achieve high cleanliness standards for the warehouse.
- Pick orders and complete other warehouse tasks as needed to support the team and ensure goals are met.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required skills:
- Proven success leading and developing teams.
- Ability to connect quickly with people.
- Adept at analyzing data to drive results.
- Strong discernment ability.
- Strategic thinking.
- Capable of safely and effectively operating a Hi-Lo and other needed warehouse equipment.
- Ability to see what needs to be done and independent drive to do it.
Success criteria:
- Orders shipped within 24 hours based on NN's deliverable cycle.
- Inventory accuracy maintained above 99%.
- Safety first/always - creating and maintaining a culture of safety through best practices with no compromise.
- Quality of shipments audited and tracked for accuracy and safe delivery to their final destination.
- Continuous improvement training to ensure each operator has the skills necessary to be successful.
- Hiring and keeping the best employees possible.
- Ensure the warehouse is as clean and orderly as possible, at all times.
- Interface with other departments data to deliver organizational goals.
- Maintain equipment at the highest level.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in warehouse leadership.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Align with our purpose, 8 character traits, and cornerstones.
About us
We are an employee-owned company and a proud part of the American building materials industry for nearly 75 years. We have a storied history of innovation, which many say is in our DNA. We agree. From product to brand, to sourcing to customer-centric solutions, we constantly ask the “what, why and how” questions that many are afraid to ask.
Our core brands of CAMO, PRO-FIT, and STINGER are the “asked for brands” in their respective segments and can be found at the finest names in the LBM, Roofing, Home Center, Distribution and STAFDA channels of the building industry and more recently, through our E-Commerce presence.
Our brand users are the hardworking folks who build things with their hands, and just like us, are business owners. They build our homes, our decks, install our roofs, and depend on our brands to support them in delivering a job well done.
Our company's reason for existing
Whether supporting our customers, suppliers, employee-owners and their families or the communities in which we live and work, our purpose is simple; inspire whoever we engage with to help them become better. Better people, families, businesses, and ultimately leave better the communities in which we live. We get this is a moonshot reason for existing. Yet it is one we are committed to.
Our culture is characterized as
- Servant focused.
- Founded on Four Cornerstones, 8 character traits, and a simple operating philosophy of Serve • Better • Value • Fun.
- High standard, embraced by a dedicated team of employee-owners who enjoy the fruits of hard work while having a “bit of fun” along the way.
- Growth-minded, driving intentional investments in developing our people, our customers, and our communities.
- Innovative.
So, if this is an assignment, culture, brands, and industry you desire to explore further, contact us. Your new adventure awaits.
