SUMMARY: The Nightshift Assistant Warehouse Manager is responsible for overseeing the second shift warehouse operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. This role includes managing staff, maintaining workflow, coordinating training efforts, and promoting a culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Promote and maintain a safe working environment by strictly adhering to safety procedures and leading by example.
- Supervise, schedule, and evaluate the performance of PM shift employees, ensuring adequate staffing to meet operational demands.
- Oversee the order selection process and general workflow to meet productivity goals and shipping deadlines.
- Facilitate onboarding and training for new hires as well as ongoing refresher training for existing team members.
- Lead pre-shift meetings with clear agendas to communicate priorities, goals, and safety updates.
- Manage truck mapping through Warehouse Management System (WMS) software and coordinate the physical loading of trucks using pallet jacks and manual stacking.
- Assist with order selection and oversee forklift replenishment as needed to support team workflow.
- Collaborate with employees and management to resolve work-related issues and improve shift performance. .
- Analyze operational processes and common practices; recommend, implement, and train staff on approved improvements in coordination with the Warehouse Manager.
- Foster positive working relationships within the team, across departments, and with external stakeholders; maintain professional competence and knowledge relevant to the role.
- Ensure all duties are performed without posing a direct threat to the safety of oneself, others, or company property.
- Maintain regular attendance during scheduled hours (Sunday through Thursday, 7:00 PM to completion), with flexibility to work holidays and extra shifts when necessary.
- Occasionally, when the team completes work ahead of schedule, the supervisor may leave early along with the crew.
Complete additional assignments as directed by management.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Education
- High School Diploma or Equivalent required
- AA Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, or similar preferred.
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of supervisory experience with a proven ability to lead teams, delegate responsibilities, and effectively recognize and address employee performance issues.
Skills
- Leadership & Supervision: Ability to lead and motivate teams, conduct conflict resolution and employee coaching.
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Effectively communicate with others through spoken and written English language. Apply customer service mindset (internal and external) while staying adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
- Coordination – Adjusting actions in relation to another’s actions.
- Critical Thinking – Using logic and reason to solve work related problems, identifying bottlenecks, prioritizing tasks and delegating effectively.
- Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
- Safety – Ability to conduct safety meetings and audits, conduct and report accident investigations, maintaining a clean and hazard-free work environment while adhering to OSHA regulations and workplace safety regulations.
Certification, Licenses, Registrations
- Must be able to obtain Forklift Certification
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working in a warehouse setting, with proficiency in Warehouse Management Systems, data entry and reporting, order fulfillment and accuracy.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION & WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Warehouse environment with racking, forklifts, concrete floors, coolers & freezers. Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, and extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
- Sitting at workstation 5% to 15% of work time. Standing/walking bending, and reaching, and lifting 85% to 95% of work time. The employee frequently lifts cases averaging 30# but occasionally up to 80#.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ABOUT UPPER LAKES FOODS
Upper Lakes Foods, Inc. is the largest independent, wholesale food distributor in Minnesota. The company has three facilities located in Cloquet, MN, Northfield, MN and Janesville, WI. We distribute food throughout the Upper Midwest. Upper Lakes Foods specializes in serving foodservice operators such as independent restaurants, assisted living facilities, schools, and national and regional foodservice chain accounts with a strong focus on customer service. Simply put, the mission is to build value for each customer, employee, supplier and community we serve by bringing the best; the best products, best people and best ideas.
CORE VALUES
- Strong Work Ethic – We believe in the value of hard work, perseverance and consistency of character.
- Positive Attitude – We believe in encouraging a flexible, agreeable and well-adjusted work existence that promotes successful outcomes.
- Integrity – We believe in honesty, truthfulness and consistency of our actions.
- Team Work – We believe that work done by several individuals combined insures excellence of quality, safety and service.
- Professional Appearance – We believe in maintaining an appearance that promotes good hygiene, neatness and appropriate business dress.
- Respectful Interaction – We believe in creating a workplace where employees are treated fairly in a safe and positive environment.
“We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.”
Equal Opportunity Employer
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