Manager, Warehouse

Oil-Dri Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty sorbent products for consumer and business-to-business markets that has been voted as a Top 100 workplaces in the Chicago Tribune. Oil-Dri’s products are sold in the pet care, animal health, fluids purification, agricultural, sports field, industrial and automotive markets. Oil-Dri controls millions of tons of specialty mineral reserves, including calcium bentonite, attapulgite, and diatomaceous shale. The company’s mines and manufacturing facilities are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and California. Oil-Dri is a family-controlled and operated organization that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and accountability. The company is dedicated to fulfilling its mission to Create Value From Sorbent Minerals.

Role Overview
Provide leadership and direction to employees to attain short- and long-term goals, optimize team effectiveness, and meet daily work schedules in the Shipping/Warehouse departments. Ensures safety, regulatory compliance, morale, and cost control. Achieve departmental goals and metrics by managing crew, productivity, material usage, inventory targets, equipment utilization, and product quality (yield) requirements while generally meeting or exceeding business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures policies are established to maintain safety rules and practices, environmental and housekeeping standards while striving for ZERO Accidents.
• Understands customer quality requirements, assures supervisors understand and follow these requirements.
• Develops, implements, and assures procedures are followed to detect and eliminate non-conforming incoming supplies/outgoing shipments.
• Develops, implements, and assures procedures are followed for the Shipping/Warehouse department.
• Coordinate purchase of supplies necessary to ensure functioning of the Shipping/Warehouse department.
• Works cross departmentally to achieve plant goals and objectives.
• Coordinate with Shipping/Warehouse Supervisors to ensure functioning of Shipping/Warehouse department.
• Supervise, train, and develop, and review Shipping/Warehouse supervisory staff.
• Communicate key metrics to Plant Manager and Supervisory teams to stimulate process improvement and cost reduction
• Develop and maintain procedure manual and training aids.
• Gather and analyze data; make and implement recommendations for process improvements and cost reductions.
• Complete required reporting and documentation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Must act in accordance with WE CARE.
• Other actions as needed to satisfy company goals, process, and procedures and to uphold values inherent to Oil-Dri, including Lesson’s learned.

Qualifications

Education:

• College Degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience; must pass all job-related

assessments.

Skills & Abilities:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a distribution or packaging environment
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a supervisory capacity preferred
• Experience in bulk material handling and shipping/warehouse procedures
• Proficient in spreadsheet development and word processing
• Able to analyze problems and present workable solutions
• Experience with counting inventory and maintaining accurate inventory documents preferred
• Familiarity with MSHA (or OSHA) regulations and practices, desired

Benefits

• 401(k) with 6% match (Fully Vested at 2 Years)
• Annual Merit increase opportunity
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 11 Corporate Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pre-Tax Transit
• Fitness & Gym Reimbursement
• Employer Contribution - Health, Dental, Vision

Oil-Dri is committed to providing equal opportunity for all teammates and qualified candidates without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Accordingly, all employment decisions and personnel actions or programs such as hiring, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, transfers, reductions in workforce, and training, etc. will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.