Distribution Center Supervisor

Company: AutoZone
Location: Newark
Posted on: January 11, 2021

Job Description:

Position Summary:
The Distribution Center Advisor (DC Advisor) leads the day-to-day operations for a specific department for a shift within the AutoZone Distribution Center. The DC Advisor assists the DC Operations Manager with leading company initiatives and ensuring maximum productivity, training and retaining high performing AutoZoners in a safe environment, while controlling expenses and shrink, and remaining compliant with company procedures in accordance with AutoZone's expectations.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of up to 40 AutoZoners and demonstrates excellent communication, inclusiveness, and collaboration skills
• Leads, directs, and motivates AutoZoners to ensure that work is completed and orders are processed to exceed customer's expectations
• Manages daily and weekly labor cost and monitors daily payroll to ensure compliance with the DC attendance policy
• Provides direction and coaching to minimize operational costs and maximize operational quality
• Monitors work processes and makes suggestions for modifications in order to increase and improve productivity, efficiency, and accuracy for the purpose of improving costs; implements changes as directed
• Ensures KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) are met pertaining to safety, on-time delivery, inventory management, order fill rates and operational costs
• Ensures timely receiving, stocking, replenishment, selection and shipping of merchandise
• Maintains compliance with established policies, procedures and legal requirements; and ensures all company policies and loss prevention procedures are followed
• Maintains a safe working environment while ensuring AutoZoners are implementing those practices including PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
• Operate Powered Industrial Equipment (PIE) as needed
• Work in a Safety Sensitive environment
• Other duties as assigned Supervisory Responsibilities:
  
  • Yes Education and/or Experience:
    Required:
    High school diploma or GED
    
    • Understand the demands of a fast paced work environment involving receiving, stocking, inbound, outbound, replenishment, returns/recalls, etc.
    • Must be flexible for shift schedule Preferred:
      
      • 3 to 5 years of Distribution/ warehouse experience
      • 1+ years of supervisory experience
      • Experience operating Powered Industrial Equipment (PIE) Certificates, 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 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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