What are the responsibilities and job description for the Distribution Center Manager position at Saint-Gobain Abrasives?
WHY DO WE NEED YOU?
The Distribution Center (DC) Manager leads a high‑volume 24/7 operation supporting North American and Export customers, overseeing ~130 employees across shipping, receiving, inventory, and value‑-added operations. The role ensures same‑day execution and shipment within 24 hours while maintaining strong EHS, accuracy, and productivity. As site leader, the DC Manager drives performance, culture, and continuous improvement through Lean practices, optimized labor and equipment utilization, and cross‑functional partnership with Supply Chain, Customer Service, Transportation, Safety, HR, IT, and Finance.
Your Day-to-day
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Saint-Gobain Abrasives offers powerful, precise, user-friendly solutions, which enable customers to cut, shape, and finish all materials in the most complex and challenging applications. By working closely with end-users and grinding expert partners, Saint-Gobain Abrasives designs and provides customized solutions to secure the best option for performance, cost, and safety. Leveraging its global manufacturing presence, Saint-Gobain Abrasives serves its customers locally through its structured sales operations in more than 27 countries while employing more than 10,000 people.
Our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, and Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.
LEGAL STATEMENT
Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.
Applicants for roles based in Washington state or remote roles that would be worked from Washington state are encouraged to direct any concerns regarding the state’s Pay Transparency laws to the SGNA HR Compliance team at SGNA_HR_Compliance@saint-gobain.com.
Benefits In Joining Us
Saint-Gobain is committed to helping you and your family be well in all aspects of your life. Be Well. Be You brings together inclusive programs and meaningful resources to support all aspects of your physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being. Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs.
Health and Well-being – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.
Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options
LiveWell Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.
401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP) Cash Balance Pension Plan
Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and
Accident Insurance
Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want
Commuter Benefits
Group Legal
Identity Theft Protection
Auto and Home Insurance
Pet Insurance and Discounts
Back-up Child and Elder Care
PerkSpot Employee Discount Program
Volunteer Day
The Distribution Center (DC) Manager leads a high‑volume 24/7 operation supporting North American and Export customers, overseeing ~130 employees across shipping, receiving, inventory, and value‑-added operations. The role ensures same‑day execution and shipment within 24 hours while maintaining strong EHS, accuracy, and productivity. As site leader, the DC Manager drives performance, culture, and continuous improvement through Lean practices, optimized labor and equipment utilization, and cross‑functional partnership with Supply Chain, Customer Service, Transportation, Safety, HR, IT, and Finance.
Your Day-to-day
- Own site safety performance; establish a culture where safety is the priority in every task and decision.
- Lead all DC operations to achieve 24-hour shipment expectations from order receipt while meeting defined cutoffs and carrier schedules.
- Ensure consistently high order accuracy through process control, standard work, and quality checks.
- Establish clear performance expectations and routines: daily start-up meetings, weekly KPI reviews, quarterly Town-Hall meetings and action tracking. Translate KPI results into actionable plans with owners, due dates, and measurable outcomes.
- Build and sustain a positive and high-performance culture emphasizing teamwork, engagement, recognition, and results.
- Manage site labor performance, overtime, and expense controls to achieve budget targets while meeting service requirements.
- Build labor plans aligned to volume forecasts; adjust staffing plans to maintain performance during demand variability.
- Implement and sustain standard work, visual management, daily management systems, and problem-solving routines.
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Lean Leader, Green Belt, Black Belt, Kaizen facilitation.
- 7 Years Progressive leadership experience in distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, logistics, or supply chain operations with strong judgment and consistent decision-making under pressure. Familiarity with MHE safety requirements and best practices.
- 5 Years In a site-level operations leadership role with full accountability for safety, service, quality, and productivity. Experienced with inventory control practices, root cause analysis for variances, work scheduling, and lean practices in a distribution center environment.
- 3 Years Demonstrated experience leading a facility with multi-shift operations, significant headcount (100 ), and high transaction volume. With exposure to profit and loss, cost accounting, capital management, budgeting, and other financial concepts routinely used in planning and measuring distribution center performance.
- MBA or technical equivalent.
- Certified in Six Sigma (Yellow, Green or Black Belt)
- International experience and multi-lingual fluency is desirable.
Saint-Gobain Abrasives offers powerful, precise, user-friendly solutions, which enable customers to cut, shape, and finish all materials in the most complex and challenging applications. By working closely with end-users and grinding expert partners, Saint-Gobain Abrasives designs and provides customized solutions to secure the best option for performance, cost, and safety. Leveraging its global manufacturing presence, Saint-Gobain Abrasives serves its customers locally through its structured sales operations in more than 27 countries while employing more than 10,000 people.
Our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, and Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.
LEGAL STATEMENT
Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.
Applicants for roles based in Washington state or remote roles that would be worked from Washington state are encouraged to direct any concerns regarding the state’s Pay Transparency laws to the SGNA HR Compliance team at SGNA_HR_Compliance@saint-gobain.com.
Benefits In Joining Us
Saint-Gobain is committed to helping you and your family be well in all aspects of your life. Be Well. Be You brings together inclusive programs and meaningful resources to support all aspects of your physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being. Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs.
Health and Well-being – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.
Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options
LiveWell Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.
401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP) Cash Balance Pension Plan
Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and
Accident Insurance
Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want
Commuter Benefits
Group Legal
Identity Theft Protection
Auto and Home Insurance
Pet Insurance and Discounts
Back-up Child and Elder Care
PerkSpot Employee Discount Program
Volunteer Day