Distribution Center Operations Manager

Company: AutoZone
Location: Newark
Posted on: January 10, 2021

Job Description:

Position Summary:
The Operations Manager oversees and manages the daily operation of a single shift in the distribution center responsible for accuracy, productivity, on-time delivery and safety. The Ops Manager will regularly communicate with the DC Manager regarding process improvements, goals and metrics.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and assist Advisors/Supervisors in multiple departments (up to 100-125 AutoZoners and 10+ Advisors)
• Ability to motivate and work in a team environment
• Ensure that all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are on target for the operation
• Frequently attend and/or lead pre-shift meetings in different departments to communicate and prioritize assignments, safety issues and extra tasks
• Mentor, train and develop Advisors for career progression
• Develop and share best practices across shifts
• Drive continuous improvement to safety, quality, cost and delivery
• Communicate new policies and procedures to Advisors and AutoZoners
• Maintains a safe working environment while ensuring AutoZoners are implementing those practices including PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
• Ability to work in a Safety Sensitive environment
• Other duties as assigned Supervisory Responsibility:
  
  • Yes Education and/ or Experience:
    Required:
    High school diploma or GED
    
    • Five to seven years' of distribution/warehouse experience
    • Understand the demands of a fast paced work environment involving receiving, stocking, inbound, outbound, replenishment, returns/recalls, etc.
    • Must be flexible for shift schedule
    • Cross functional experience overseeing multiple areas simultaneously Preferred:
      
      • P&L management Experience operating Powered Industrial Equipment (PIE)
        Certificated, Licenses, and Registrations
        
        • None Work Environment:
          Factor
          Description
          Primary Work Site
          
          • 95% indoors
          • 5% outdoors Temperature
            
            • Controlled indoors, typical of a warehouse environment
            • Varied outdoors Noise
              
              • Powered Industrial Equipment and tools, Fans and Cooling Systems, horns and paging systems Hazards
                
                • Should be aware of box cutter, ladders, Powered Industrial Equipment, and some chemical exposure (ex: batteries, coolant, oil, washer fluid, brake fluid, etc.) Air Quality
                  
                  • Overall good; some gasses, fumes and dust present Work Surface
                    
                    • Flat, even, hard, inclines and ramps, ladders and stairs, catwalks/scaffolds, parking lot People
                      
                      • Exposure to a variety of employees within designated departments
                      • Exposure to varied customers and vendors in a distribution environment Physical Demands:
                        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.
                        
                        • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. while pushing, pulling, lifting, bending and stooping and using lifting techniques and move loads
                        • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
                        • Ability to work extended/alternate shifts
                        • Constantly required to stand, walk, climb stairs, reach, kneel, crouch or crawl
                        • Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust and focus
                        • Ability to hear safety horns, PIE horns, pre-shift announcements/safety messages and pages
                        • Ability to work in a Safety Sensitive environment (operation of PIE / heavy PIE traffic throughout the distribution center); moving conveyors, heights; maintain awareness of surroundings at all times and quick reaction time to hazardous conditions are necessary

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