Assistant Warehouse Manager
The Assistant Warehouse Manager supports the leadership and day-to-day execution of warehouse operations within a high-volume manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for ensuring the safe, accurate, and efficient receipt, storage, movement, picking, staging, and delivery of production materials across assigned warehouse operations.
The Assistant Warehouse Manager provides direct leadership to warehouse supervisors and hourly employees and may be assigned responsibility for a specific warehouse building, shift, or functional area. The position works closely with Manufacturing, Production Control, Materials Management, Inventory Control, Quality, Shipping, and other support functions to ensure material availability and maintain effective material flow to production.
This role requires a strong floor presence, disciplined execution, and the ability to identify and resolve operational issues quickly while developing supervisors and strengthening warehouse processes and controls.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent warehouse leadership experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of progressive warehouse, distribution, logistics, or manufacturing-materials experience.
- 2+ years of experience leading supervisors, leads, or sizable hourly teams preferred.
- Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing or complex warehouse operations strongly preferred.
- Experience with ERP/WMS systems; SAP experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of receiving, put-away, picking, material movement, inventory control, cycle counting, and warehouse transactions.
- Demonstrated experience with operational KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing production priorities.
- Ability to work across multiple shifts and warehouse locations as business needs require.
Preferred Experience
- Large-scale manufacturing or distribution environment.
- Multi-building warehouse operations.
- SAP and warehouse management systems.
- Lean manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, RCCA, or other continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Physical inventory and cycle-count programs.
- Material flow supporting high-volume production.
- Warehouse startup, expansion, relocation, or process transformation experience.