Basic Job Concept: Build, lead and grow a thriving team in a refrigerated warehouse environment managing supply chain service projects in the fresh produce industry. Optimize current projects and onboard new opportunities. This is a high-growth potential opportunity.
Who You Are: You are self-motivated. You think like an entrepreneur, constantly innovating and driving positive change, but more importantly you consistently deliver mind-boggling results! You love people, processes, and performance. You believe in the power of ‘team’ and are driven by a sincere desire to see others succeed. You are a change agent, live culture, and believe in community. You seek collaboration to find the best answers and are not afraid to take calculated risk. You are hardworking and always put your safety, and the safety of those around you FIRST!
What You’ll Do:
- Be an active member of an epically awesome team!
- Live out our culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
- Deliver on a variety of functional and strategic logistic initiatives.
- Drive change to streamline processes and find new ways/better ways to deliver excellence to our customer partners.
- Care so much for our people that you refuse to allow them to be unsafe.
- Work in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, and consistently cool.
- Help design and deploy innovative ways to develop warehouse team members.
- Partner with people to identify new human needs and corresponding solutions.
- Build, lead, and develop a winning team.
- Innovate and create new methods to increase productivity.
- Identify and deliver market disrupting service solutions!
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
- A desire to coach people to become the best versions of themselves
- A drive to work with a team to find the best way to overcome challenges
- Insightful, meaningful, relevant relationship skills.
- A hunger to learn and grow.
- Creative new ideas on how we can better serve our community of employees and customers.
- An extreme sense of ownership (meaning you treat every person, every function, everything as if you were the owner of this company).
- Commitment, loyalty, integrity, compassion, empathy and patience.
- A proven skill set and knowledge base of people leadership, warehouse related practices and processes.
- Stand-up (not cherry picker) forklift experience.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Create and implement new ways to make Foster-Caviness a fun and exciting place to work!
- Manage staff to organize and perform daily inbound and outbound functions
- Maintain accurate inventory, product quality, and workflow efficiency
- Communicate performance and coach team to help them grow
- Facilitate all facets of team building and people leadership.
- Ensure all associates are engaged, empowered, and accountable to win.
- Ensure processes are relevant and consistently executed with greatness and accuracy i.e. inbound, outbound, and put-a-way policies and procedure adherence.
- Utilize our WMS system, Produce Pro, to make sure every move and procedure is captured within.
- Work with various other departments, including Quality, Inventory, Transportation, etc in a cross-functional and communal way to find the best business solutions.
- Manage and modernize process to ensure exceptional service levels.
