About Us
Established in 1960, ELGi is a global compressed air solutions provider with over two million customers across 100 countries. With over 400 products and accessories, ELGi aims to provide the lowest ownership cost experience supported by responsive service. Our brand goal of being "Always Better" for our customers, employees, investors, suppliers, distributors, and societies serves as the backbone for our aspiration to be the preferred compressed air partner.
Established in 2012, ELGi North America provides compressed air solutions to a variety of markets and applications throughout North America. We believe the U.S. will be a critical driver in our growth ambitions and are aggressively investing in establishing our market capabilities, expanding distribution, and building customer trust. As we approach our business goals, we aim to become the employer of choice.
About the Opportunity
The Warehouse Manager is responsible for managing the ELGi North America business' Charlotte warehouse, inventory, and shipping functions. This includes oversight of timely product ordering, receipt, and shipping to meet targeted customer satisfaction levels and internal service level agreements. This role liaises with a variety of ELGI's global internal and external stakeholders. This individual has 6-7 direct reports.
Primary responsibilities are to:
- Establish warehouse practices and protocols to achieve efficient goals; design better processes to improve workflow and define structure (SOPs).
- Monitor workplace KPIs and lead training initiatives to improve employee performance.
- Monitor day-to-day activities to ensure that inbound receipts, container offloading, LTL shipping, UPS shipping and other regular activities are completed in a timely manner.
- Ensure Warehouse Cleanliness (5S)
- Foster a safety-first culture.
- Manage inventory
- Conduct cycle counts as per finance department guidance for inventory accuracy.
- Design and implement a fool proof FIFO system for inventory.
- Management of aging inventory (ex: Motors, airends, etc.)
- Implementation of Bar-coding facility
- Maintain Shipping/Receiving
- Make sure orders are being shipped out in a quick and accurate manner.
- Ensure that we partner with the right vendors for inbound and outbound logistics.
- Budget and manage freight revenue, cost, and gross margin.
- Forklift Training/Safety; managing warehouse employees to ensure they are properly trained on forklifts for putting materials up, as well as pulling them down to restock shelves, and for pulling materials for Production.
- PO Receipts (HO, Local Vendors)
- Inbound materials in a quick and efficient manner to be able to get units/parts out in a timely manner. Make sure that items are checked and verified based off the packing list(s) provided by the vendor.
- Inbound materials into ERP system and communicate to Customer Service Team/Production Planner to ensure that materials go out in a timely manner
About You
The Warehouse & Shipping Manager opportunity may be a match for you if you have the following required qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree, or relevant experience
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Minimum 5 years' relevant experience in a warehouse and shipping management role
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Demonstrated management skills with an ability to apply best management practices and techniques, including holding performance conversations, setting goals, training, etc.
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Proficient with MS Office Suite (excel skills to build basic models, analytics, and reports)
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Ability to influence people, take initiative, prioritize tasks, develop a plan, and own the implementation.
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Strong planning and organization skills
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Effective written and verbal communication skills
The Warehouse & Shipping Manager opportunity may be an ideal match for you if you also have the following preferred qualifications:
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Compressed air industry or any other relevant industry experience
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Detail orientation and experience using ERP system (LN, SAP, etc.) to manage every facet of warehouse operations