Warehouse Manager

Essential Functions & Core Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee daily warehouse operations, including receiving, putaway, inventory storage, picking, packing, staging, shipping, transfers, returns, and deliveries.
• Manage, coach, train, and develop warehouse employees while establishing clear expectations for productivity, accuracy, attendance, safety, organization, and accountability.
• Plan and assign daily workload based on order priorities, customer requirements, staffing, inventory availability, incoming shipments, and business needs.
• Ensure customer orders are picked, packed, staged, and shipped accurately and on schedule.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and ensure physical inventory movement is properly reflected in NetSuite.
• Establish and maintain effective cyclecounting, inventory reconciliation, and inventoryadjustment procedures.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies and identify root causes and corrective actions to improve longterm inventory accuracy.
• Ensure incoming products are received accurately and promptly, including verification of quantities, product identification, condition, purchase order information, and required documentation.
• Maintain an organized warehouse layout, including appropriate bin locations, product identification, staging areas, aisles, receiving areas, and shipping areas.
• Establish standardized processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for key warehouse activities and ensure consistent adherence across the department.
• Monitor open orders and proactively identify inventory, fulfillment, or warehouserelated issues that could delay customer shipments.
• Coordinate the appropriate handling of standard, expedited, partialshipment, and shipcomplete orders.
• Establish effective controls and visibility for products and orders that are received, picked, packed, staged, transferred, shipped, or released for local delivery.
• Work closely with Purchasing to communicate inventory shortages, receiving discrepancies, backorders, replenishment requirements, and incoming inventory priorities.
• Partner with Customer Service, Sales and Purchasing to provide accurate information regarding inventory availability, order status, fulfillment issues, and shipment timing.
• Support inventory planning by providing operational insight regarding stock levels, product movement, slowmoving inventory, obsolete inventory, and warehouse capacity.
• Ensure warehouse employees consistently follow established NetSuite processes and accurately complete required system transactions.
• Partner with Operations and NetSuite resources to identify and implement improvements to warehouse workflows, dashboards, reports, forms, and system controls.
• Participate in the evaluation, testing, implementation, and adoption of barcode scanning and Warehouse Management System (WMS) capabilities for receiving, inventory movement, picking, packing, and shipping.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate unnecessary manual and paperbased processes and replace them with efficient, reliable, systemdriven workflows.
• Develop and monitor warehouse Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including inventory accuracy, picking and shipping accuracy, receiving turnaround time, fulfillment performance, productivity, and safety.
• Support warehouse expansion, relocation, layout redesign, or other operational improvement initiatives as required.
• Maintain a clean, safe, organized, and efficient warehouse environment.
• Ensure compliance with company safety policies, OSHA requirements, and applicable warehouse and materialhandling standards.
• Ensure employees operating forklifts or other powered industrial equipment are properly trained, certified, and authorized.
• Conduct routine warehouse, equipment, storage, and safety inspections and promptly address identified concerns.
• Investigate and properly report workplace accidents, injuries, product damage, equipment damage, and safety incidents.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives designed to increase warehouse capacity, productivity, inventory accuracy, employee effectiveness, and customer service.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory control, receiving, picking, packing, shipping, fulfillment, and material handling.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage warehouse employees in a fastpaced distribution or fulfillment environment.
• Strong understanding of inventory accuracy, cycle counting, inventory reconciliation, and rootcause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to establish standardized processes, improve operational workflows, and hold employees accountable to established procedures.
• Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and problemsolving skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple operational demands and respond to urgent or timesensitive customer and business requirements.
• Experience working with ERP, inventorymanagement, or Warehouse Management System technology.
• Strong computer skills and the ability to learn and effectively utilize NetSuite and other warehouse technology.
• Ability to analyze warehouse performance data and use operational metrics to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Strong crossfunctional communication skills with the ability to work effectively with Operations, Purchasing, Customer Service, Sales, Apparel, Finance, and leadership.
• Ability to safely operate forklifts and other required warehouse/materialhandling equipment.
• Current forklift certification or ability to successfully complete required forklift certification upon hire.
• High level of accuracy, accountability, professional judgment, and attention to detail.
• Ability and willingness to work handson in the warehouse and provide direct operational support when needed.

Preferred Education, Certifications, and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant warehouse leadership experience may be considered.
• Minimum 35 years of warehouse, distribution, logistics, fulfillment, or inventorymanagement experience.
• Minimum 2 years of warehouse supervisory or management experience required.
• Experience with Oracle NetSuite strongly preferred.
• Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), barcode scanning, RF scanners, or similar warehouse technology preferred.
• Experience developing and implementing warehouse SOPs, inventory controls, cyclecount programs, and performance metrics required.
• Experience managing inventory across multiple locations preferred.
• Experience in industrial distribution, safety products, PPE, emergency response equipment, or a similar distribution environment preferred.
• Experience participating in a warehouse expansion, relocation, redesign, WMS implementation, or significant processimprovement initiative preferred.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work regularly in a warehouse and distribution environment.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods throughout the workday.
• Ability to bend, reach, stoop, climb, push, pull, and perform physical activities associated with warehouse operations.
• Ability to safely lift, carry, and move products and materials consistent with Company safety guidelines and applicable requirements.
• Ability to safely operate a forklift and other materialhandling equipment as required.
• Ability to work around warehouse equipment, loading areas, racking, pallets, and moving inventory.
• Ability to work in varying warehouse temperatures and environmental conditions as applicable.
• Ability to safely perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Voluntary Life
• Long Term Disability
• 401K-5% match
• Wellness Program

About Safe Industries

At Safe Industries, our values shape how we work, lead, and serve. We put Service First, approaching every decision with a commitment to support our teammates, customers, and communities. We are Built for Others, believing success comes from teamwork, shared responsibility, and standing alongside those who serve others. We Own the Outcome, taking accountability from start to finish and following through until the mission is complete. And we Stay Ready, preparing with discipline, urgency, and continuous improvement so we can be counted on when it matters most. If you're driven by service, collaboration, accountability, and readiness, you'll find a team committed to making a meaningful impact every day.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Safe Industries, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other status protected by the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact Human Resources.