Manager, Operations

What You'll Do :

• Ensure budgeted revenues, expenses, and targets are met.
• Ensure sales and business development initiatives are met.
• Monitor, document and improve the procedures and KPI's related to all aspects of product handling and customer service.
• Work with General Manager to develop annual facility budgets.
• Perform regular inspections of work areas to ensure compliance with food safety and occupational safety laws and guidelines are followed.
• Set and achieve housekeeping standards that are a model of orderliness and cleanliness and meet standards and procedures for maintenance related functions.
• Build positive relationships with customers.
• Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; scheduling, planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; conducting staff meetings; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Submit various required and defined reports on a timely basis.
• Maintain operational procedures for verification of incoming and outgoing shipments, handling, and disposition of merchandise, and keeping of warehouse inventory.

Meet quality control standards for perishables.
• Coordinates activities of distribution warehouse with activities of sales, record control, and purchasing departments to ensure availability of merchandise.
• Directs reclamation of damaged merchandise.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies, as well as all Federal, State and Local OSHA regulations.
• Prepare operational schedules and coordinate activities.

Establish priorities and sequences for products.
• Provide a safe work environment through personal actions.

Identify any safety concerns, as well as cost saving opportunities.

Conduct quarterly safety training.
• Support the Company Performance Management Program (PMP).
• Inspect machines and equipment.

Review operating reports.

Resolve operational / maintenance issues.
• Report on-the-job injuries and accidents.

Facilitate modified duty assignments.

What Experience and Education You Need :

• 5 years supervisory experience
• Associate's Degree (A.A.) preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
• Proficient with Warehouse Management Systems

Physical Requirements :

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
• May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business
• May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carrie...