Warehouse Supervisor

The Supervisor, promotes a safety culture, an engaged workforce and exceptional service at the facility. The majority of the Supervisor's time is spent out on the floor providing direction to the warehouse team and coaching employees on safety, service and productivity. They supervise and lead the warehouse team by monitoring, measuring, coaching and developing individual and team performance. They monitor daily metrics and implement improvements to operations in pursuit of operational excellence, a safe workplace, and an exceptional customer experience
We are a growing organization and currently looking for a passionate and motivated Warehouse Supervisor to join our winning team.
Employment Type: Permanent
Shift: Night - Sunday to Thursday from 11pm to 7am
Office/Facility: Vaughan

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Safety & Compliance
- Leads and promotes a culture where Health & Safety is the #1 priority. Provides leadership and support for Health & Safety initiatives at the facility.
- Works with warehouse team to ensure compliance with the company's health and safety policies, and related legislation.
- Operates within and ensures full compliance with the Code of Business Conduct, company policies and procedures, and all statutes and legislation governing the workplace.
- Reports Facility Maintenance Manager to General Manager for resolution, and follows up as needed to ensure they are addressed in a timely manner to reduce the impact on operations.
- Evaluates safety, security and housekeeping levels on a daily basis by reviewing warehouse operations to ensure warehouse is clean, secure and well organized, and that damage to product, equipment and facility is prevented.
- Works with regional Health & Safety leads to implement health & safety incident prevention programs.
- Works with Food Safety lead to implement and maintain Cold Chain Assurance programs such as HACCP, including program development, ensuring compliance, employee training and compliance reporting.

People Leadership
- Leads daily warehouse operations by prioritizing activities, and providing leadership, coaching and direction to the warehouse team. Aligns department and individual efforts to the vision, mission, strategy and culture.
- Assists the General Managerin developing and leading regular site communication sessions to review safety initiatives, site performance and other local initiatives.
- Monitors, measures, coaches and develops performance of direct reports, ensures adherence to policies and procedures, provides recognition, evaluates and provides feedback on performance, addresses complaints and resolves problems.
- Participates in the hiring, training and development of staff.
- Leads or participates in establishing work schedules and ensures that they are correctly implemented and that jobs are assigned and completed effectively. Tracks daily attendance of warehouse employees, including sick days, vacation and floater days. Monitors attendance and addresses attendance management issues.
- Spends 80-90% of their day on the floor monitoring, directing and coaching employee performance on Safety, Service and Productivity.

Customer Experience
- Leads their team in providing the highest levels of service to all customers with whom they interact, whether internal or external, with the goal of continuously improving the customer experience.
- Measures and reports on customer experience standards and metrics for all accounts and works with facility team to meet/exceed these standards.
- Implements improved operational processes that enhance capabilities to meet/exceed service standards.
- Ensures organizational adherence and accountability to standard operating procedures.
- Ensures that customer orders are picked & shipped in a timely fashion within prescribed cost levels.

Operational Excellence
- Establishes operational goals and priorities in partnership with the General Manager.
- Tracks Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by shift to monitor performance. Works with the General Manager to review KPIs regularly and make adjustments and improvements according to results.
- Manages inventory, including ensuring proper stock rotation, assisting in physical inventory counts as required, conducting reconciliations, ensuring that customer orders are picked and shipped in a timely fashion within prescribed cost levels and supervising the checking of incoming and outgoing freight for proper counts and codes.
- Supports and assists the General Managerin all cost control measures, which include overtime management, expense control and productivity.
- Supervises the checking of incoming & outgoing freight for proper counts, damage & codes. Processes returns. Leads the investigation of any overages/shortages and reports back to Manager, Warehousing Solutions.
- Prepare employee schedules to ensure the workflow meets or exceeds Key Performance Indicators.
- Ensures the efficient & safe operation of all material handling equipment.
- Provides proactiv