Shipping Supervisor-KY

At , shipping is where the heroes shine. As a Shipping Supervisor, you're leading the charge—guiding your team, tackling challenges, and keeping operations moving faster than a superhero on roller skates. Every package that leaves our warehouse is a win, and every process you improve makes you a hero in your team's story.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee specific areas of the shipping process, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and adherence to company standards
• Support team members in performing shipping tasks such as picking and packing
• Work closely with other Shipping Supervisors and Shipping Manager to ensure smooth and efficient operations, including resource allocation and workflow optimization
• Analyze current operation and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, cultivating innovation from team
• Drive engagement by creating an environment where people are motivated to do their best
• Maintain, promote, and enforce cleanliness and organization of department
• Implement and enforce quality control measures
• Monitor and track KPIs, and take corrective action as needed to meet department goals and targets
• Work with other departments, such as Customer Service and Global Logistics, to resolve shipping-related issues.
• Ensure proper functioning of equipment necessary to fulfillment process, enter tickets as necessary.
• Project and plan workload and labor needs for areas responsible, create and maintain employee schedules.

Requirements:

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of warehouse associates in the assigned areas of the department, providing guidance, training, and support
• Allocate tasks and responsibilities, ensuring equitable distribution of workload.
• Conduct status meetings and regular performance evaluations and provide feedback that is consistent to team members to support their professional development.
• Address any performance issues or conflicts with the team promptly and effectively, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment
• Collaborate with other supervisors to coordinate schedules and coverage to meet operational needs.

Minimum Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma
• 1-3 years of leadership experience in a warehouse environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve goals and exceed expectations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively provide information and actively listen to and consider input from others.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the capacity to build and maintain positive relationships with colleagues and employees across departments and foster a collaborative work environment
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and collaboration
• Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Flexibility and adaptability to navigate dynamic and evolving situations, adjusting plans as needed to accommodate changing priorities.
• Ability to navigate differences of opinion or perspective and facilitate productive consensus building among stakeholders.

Physical Requirements:

• Posture & Movement
• Constant standing
• Frequent walking, bending, and reaching
• Constant hand and wrist repetition
• Occasional kneeling, squatting, crawling, climbing, twisting, and stair use

Strength & Dexterity

• Fine motor skills with light to moderate strength
• Occasional pushing and pulling

Lifting & Carrying

• Up to 10 lbs: frequently
• 11–24 lbs: frequently
• 25–34 lbs: occasionally
• 35–50 lbs: occasionally
• Over 50 lbs: not required

Overhead Lifting

• Up to 24 lbs: frequently
• 25–50 lbs: occasionally

Vision

• Close visual work
• Normal color discrimination
• Depth perception and distance vision
• Ability to focus

Working Conditions:

• Indoor warehouse environment with temperatures ranging from 16°F–95°F
• Exposure to heights less than one hour per day
• Continuous noise levels below 85 decibels
• No personal protective equipment required
• No driving or travel required (except order picker operation once certified)