Warehouse Supervisor

3 weeks ago


Lanigan, Canada Nutrien Full time

At Nutrien, our Purpose is to **grow our world from the ground up** and we do so with safety and integrity as our core values. Nothing is more important than sending our people home safe, every day.

Nutrien is a leading provider of agricultural products, services, and solutions. With approximately 23,000 employees world-wide, we are the largest producer of potash (by capacity) and one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate. We also operate a leading agriculture retail network that services over 500,000 growers.

We harvest the best. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, who are innovators in search of a better way, and who believe in inclusion.

Working at Nutrien will provide you an opportunity to help us _Feed the Future, _and grow your career.

This position reports directly to the Sr. Manager, Procurement - Lanigan.

**What you will do**:

- Supervise and lead the team of unionized warehouse personnel and manage all aspects of the site warehouses including issuing, storage, inventory counts, vendor managed solutions and facility maintenance
- Providing strong safety leadership ensuring compliance with the Lanigan Safety Program (including toolbox talks, planned inspections, job observations, safety meetings, etc.); Nutrien Safety, Health, and Environment Program; and any other required health and safety programs
- Collaborate with maintenance and operations departments to manage the repairable spare and rebuildable programs
- Maintaining good housekeeping at all times
- Working closely with the Cataloger/Material Master Data team to update and correct descriptions when required, and initiating inventory modification requests
- Guide the identification of proper and justifiable reorder points and reorder quantities to maintain optimal working levels to support the needs of Maintenance and Operations
- Ensure materials stored in the warehouse are maintained in the asset and spend management systems, in accordance with Nutrien Procurement Policy and site-specific policies
- Directly support or lead warehouse and inventory optimization, as well as other key strategic sourcing projects and initiatives as required to realize a best-in-class procurement organization

**What you will bring**:

- Ability to collaboratively lead teams in holistic business-based situation analysis, solution generation and action steps
- Ability to think strategically with confidence and speed in execution
- Strong organizational, project management, time management, and people management skills
- Superior problem solving and analytical skills, adaptability/flexibility and the ability to develop innovative concepts, techniques and effectively generate recommendations
- Demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of management and staff; exceptional written communication, oral presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to collaborate with internal departments, seek common ground and establish alignment on common goals
- Motivated, high-energy and self-starter business mindset; proven change agent with excellent facilitation skills
- Hands-on; no reservation to roll-up sleeves and perform out of scope duties to get the job done
- Incumbent should have warehouse management and inventory control experience in an industrial environment, and supervisory experience in a union environment, balanced with a strategic sourcing background
- Saskatchewan Underground Mining Supervisory ticket is preferred
- Supply Chain Management Professional Designation, Business degree, Bachelor degree, Professional Parts Person Designation or equivalent education
- Certifications in disciplines such as Procurement, Inventory Management, Lean / Six Sigma, or Operational Planning preferred
- Working knowledge of computer tools (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
- Working knowledge of Oracle, Viziya, SparesFinder and Ariba would be an asset
- High commitment and practice to safety
- Exercises good judgment and makes effective, sound, timely and informed decisions
- Adapts and is flexible and resilient in response to constraints, failures, and adversity
- Promotes efforts aimed at improving current business processes through a culture that fosters continuous improvement and innovation
- Trains and develops staff, provides constructive performance feedback and takes appropriate corrective action to address performance
- Manages projects and leads initiatives in the workplace
- Builds and maintains effective relationships to share information, establish partnerships, and leverage expertise to accomplish the organization’s goals
- Incumbent must have a minimum of 6-8 years of warehouse or strategic sourcing experience and ideally 2-4 years of supervisory experience in a union environment

The estimated salary that Indeed, Glassdoor and LinkedIn suggested does not represent Nutrien's compensation stru