PGT Innovations Hiring for Group Leader – Supply Chain – Warehouse at Miami, FL Full Time

Directs and coordinates activities of Warehouse Operations including Receiving Dock by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

What You’ll Do

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides guidance and leadership to Group and Team Leader(s) to help them effectively plan work, direct team activities, and establish work priorities.
• Creates/refines leader standard work and ensure the Group & Team Leaders and their employees receive appropriate training/coaching to meet and exceed job expectations. Identifies, recruits and develops employees as future leaders
• Establishes work-measurement program, establishes metrics and key performance indicators, and evaluates team and individual process and performance
• Plan and implement overall warehouse and receiving strategies
• Researches, develops and implements short- and long-term improvements to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and efficiency
• Oversees and controls budget of the warehouse department. Participates in departmental budget and plans capital needs for the future.
• Determines resource needs for department
• Ensures that work processes are implemented uniformly across shifts and plants
• Anticipates future needs to support growth and determines resource and capital support requirements
• Actively drives and ensures all team members are engaged and focused on creating a safe work environment
• Provides loading and warehouse decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
• Improve the operational systems, processes and policies management reporting, information flow and organizational planning.
• Motivates and encourages all team members to actively participate in 5S initiatives, achieving/sustaining world class levels. Develops all team members and provides the proper training and tools to achieve quality at the source across the product line(s).
• Coaches and encourages active participation by all team members in problem solving activities helping them develop their skills utilizing Lean tools.
• Helps develop or revise standard operational and working practices and verifies that subordinate leaders require worker compliance with standards.
• Leads/facilitates continuous improvement activities to drive improvement in safety, quality, delivery and cost through Kaizen and other world class techniques
• Participates in meetings to report performance or drive continuous improvement.
• Reviews production and operating reports to help determine warehouse and loading constraints and creates plan to improve
• Provides positive and negative feedback to employees verbally and in writing. Documents feedback through Confirmation of Conversations (COC).
• Conducts or participates in annual performance reviews for employees
• Use software to track, check, prioritize and route orders
• Direct the flow of finished goods from preparation to shipment
• Collaborate with other site locations and other site managers to optimize product movement processes
• Works with the ECO/PGTI Transportation Compliance team to help ensure compliance to DOT, FDOT regulations and company policies.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Leads TL and hourly Employees

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Dealing with Complexity, Informing Others, Leadership, Supervision, Hardware Specifications, Manufacturing Methods and Procedures, Manufacturing Quality, Product Development, and Presenting Technical Information.

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 2-5 years of experience in receiving, shipping, or warehouse operations with at least two years proven experience as warehouse manager
• Strategic planner with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus
• An energetic, forward thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image
• Experience in lean manufacturing and world class manufacturing best practices
• Ability to analyze data and develop data-based solutions.
• Must be able to work without supervision and manage under stress to meet deadlines.
• Solid knowledge of receiving and warehouse procedures
• Experience using MRP/ERP systems, like SAP, ORACLE, D365, Frontier, WTS or others
• Experience in using EDI and receiving documents (e.g. packing slips, PRO#)
• Computer savvy with excellent knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel)
• Good understanding of budgeting and reporting
• Experience in directing and evaluating subordinates

Language/Communication Skills

• Must demonstrate excellent written and verbal skills to communicate effectively at all levels of the Company.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to develop and coach team members
• English Spanish communication a must

Mathematical Skills

• Basic math skills

Reasoning Ability

• Strong logic skills to understand and organize work flow
• Ability to conceptualize effects of changes on interrelated activities
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to apply principles of logical or analytical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases.
• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Must be able to analyze situations promptly and accurately.
• Must have ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical decision-making skills.
• Ability to form good judgments in critical situations.
• Must be able to deliver results through others

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

APICS certification desired

Physical Demands / Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Manufacturing/Warehouse floor environment with frequent walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, lifting, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing. Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery. Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.

Travel Requirements

Minimal travel, all domestically.

• Description:
• Occasional: activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.
• Frequent: activity exists 1/3 and 2/3 of the time.