Sr Warehouse Manager (Mexicali)

Essential Job Duties

• Hire, train, develop, and motivate warehouse personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, operations department goals, and productivity requirements.
• Supervise a team of managers and individual contributors with functional responsibility for performing ongoing receiving, put‑away, picking, kitting, replenishment route running, tool crib and indirect material.
• Maintain documented procedures to define receiving, material movement and storage, kitting for direct and indirect material responsibilities, same as tool crib.
• Ensure that optimal inventory levels of commodities are maintained to meet production requirements.
• Estimate current and future warehouse capacity requirements.
• Manage FIFO strategies to assure the correct consumption of the material.
• Ensure that company procedures, including SOX and FDA requirements, are understood and adhered to.
• Evaluate and provide annual performance feedback to direct reports along with interim counseling to ensure performance criteria are being met.
• Conduct analysis as required to investigate and determine the root cause of compliance, quality or other performance failures and implement corrective actions as warranted.
• Oversee operational inventory transactions to maintain accurate inventory.
• Work and communicate directly with finance and functional management to develop and meet operational budgets for headcount, depreciation, and cost center spending.
• Interface with and support manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, finance, planning, and other related departments.
• Ensure all staff members receive and remain current with designated training requirements as necessary to perform responsibilities.
• Establish and maintain multi‑plant inventory level goals and replenish shipments.
• Maintain data in compliance with SOX and regulatory controls including records for timeliness and accuracy of inventory cycle count.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience working in a warehouse environment associated with a production facility.
• Experience in Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and supervise operational management teams in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience with MRP, Agile & ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing or distribution company.
• Lean manufacturing/materials implementation and use of Kanban principles, Six Sigma background and knowledge is also highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills to meet deadlines, assist staff in prioritizing work and handle multiple projects.
• Ability to apply sound judgment and decision‑making skills in dealing with a variety of routine issues.
• Works independently with minimal supervision in a cross‑functional setting.
• Experience with organizing unstructured data to support proposals or operational plans.
• Ability to handle conflict well and give positive and negative feedback along with managing performance issues.
• Skilled in MS Office suite, WMS, Access and/or SQL database experience.
• Maintain status as a certified forklift operator (training and certification process provided by ISI).

Required Education and Training

• BS degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Logistics Management, or related field.
• APICS CPIM and/or CSCP certification preferred.
• Project management/Six Sigma training is preferred.

Working Conditions

• 20% travel required.
• Work involves working in warehouse environments consisting of rapidly moving conveyance equipment, less than optimum lighting and adverse temperature variations and conditions.
• May require stooping, lifting, reaching in performance of daily tasks.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) experience.
• S/4HANA EWM experience.
• AI integration as it applies to inventory control and warehouse operations.