Warehouse Supervisor
Umbra, Canada

Is this you

Looking to become part of the Umbra Operations Team and being responsible for supervising the production, shipping and receiving teams to ensure that all targets and quality standards are met?

Here’s what makes you successful at Umbra

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Can-Do Attitude
• Curiosity
• Street Smarts
• Team Player Mentality

What you’ll do to be successful in this role

Deliver Great Results You will distribute weekly work orders and review daily production to ensure targets are being met. When issues arise, you will address and resolve production shortages and overages in collaboration with the team leaders.

Build a Winning Team By providing on-going feedback of their performance, encouraging continuous improvement, and ensuring company policies are followed, you will supervise the warehouse staff through the team leaders and direct day-to-day interaction to maintain a high level of productivity in all areas. You will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating performance, developing standards and metrics.

KPI’s amp; Reporting You will be responsible for delivering on the required Key Performance Indicators and prepare daily, weekly, monthly reports to summarize production activity.

Production Planning Working with the Master Production Schedule, you will review, modify, document and communicate changes to ensure targets are obtainable and confirm adequate resources, including associates, are available.

Process Improvement You will review and develop procedures to ensure continuous improvement including the maintenance of a positive and proactive relationship with key areas such as Purchasing, Sales/Marketing.

Requirements

What you’ll bring

Entrepreneurial: You demonstrate a no job is too small mentality; you like to roll up your sleeves, jump in and get it done! You are a goal oriented, high achiever. You are agile and adept at working in a multi-stakeholder environment. You appreciate the nuances of a private, non-corporate company environment.

Attitude: You have a positive attitude, strong work ethic and are able to adapt to changing priorities. You have an appreciation for design.

Relationship Building: You encourage collaboration and are a team player who can develop and maintain effective working relationships across all levels of the organization.

Communication: You are proficient at active listening. You have an ability to write reports and business correspondence; comfortable presenting information and are able to respond to questions.

Business Acumen amp; Decision Making: You take a business first approach, demonstrating assertiveness in pursuing open issues to closure. You provide input to create improved processes that increase efficiency and productivity.

Organization Skills: You thrive in a fast paced environment. You have a strong sense of urgency, are self-motivated and work effectively under pressure. You can prioritize team efforts and meet tight deadlines.

Critical Thinking: You are a versatile thinker, applying common sense and objectivity to evaluate and determine a solution. You balance an analytical approach with a people-centric perspective when problem solving.

Integrity amp; Influence: You are confident and persuasive with unquestionable integrity. You are a strong team player with demonstrated ability to influence and motivate others.

Experience: You possess 4-7 years’ experience of warehousing, production and shipping experience, with 2-5 years being in a supervisory capacity. Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Process Improvement, 5S, and Six Sigma would be an asset.

Technical Skills: Proficiency in MS Office applications is mandatory as well as a familiarity with on-line inventory management systems.

Benefits

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