What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Supervisor position at Southern Specialties | Tulsa, OK?
The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for leading and executing all day-to-day warehouse operations, including Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Cycle Counting within a sheet metal fabrication environment. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a controlled warehouse system, uses data to drive decisions, and builds a high-performing, accountable team.
This role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate material flow to support production and on-time customer delivery. The ideal candidate is a continuous learner who values collaboration, drives improvement, and builds trust and respect across all levels of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Warehouse Operations
This role is essential to ensuring accurate inventory, reliable production support, and on-time delivery to customers. Success in this position directly impacts operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and overall business performance. This is a strong opportunity for a leader who wants to make a measurable impact and grow within a manufacturing organization.
Physical Requirements:
Generally, 75% of the normal work shift requires standing bending, squatting, and climbing while running production, inspecting work and machines, and checking procedures.
Parts must be lifted, pulled, pushed, and held in place, without benefit of material handling devices due to limited space and confined areas in and around machines.
Safety-Sensitive Designation:
Jobs which involve one or more tasks or duties that could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others are considered safety-sensitive. This position is safety-sensitive because, in addition to the essential functions, it also involves performing one or more of the following essential tasks or duties:
This role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate material flow to support production and on-time customer delivery. The ideal candidate is a continuous learner who values collaboration, drives improvement, and builds trust and respect across all levels of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Warehouse Operations
- Lead daily Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Cycle Count activities to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and on-time performance
- Ensure consistent and reliable material flow to support production schedules
- Maintain accurate, real-time inventory records using a controlled warehouse management system (WMS) with handheld scanners and location-based tracking
- Execute and manage cycle count programs; investigate and resolve discrepancies using root-cause analysis
- Ensure proper storage, handling, and identification of raw materials, WIP, and finished goods
- Maintain warehouse layout, organization, and visual standards to support efficiency and accuracy
- Supervise, coach, and develop a team of 6–10 warehouse employees
- Establish clear expectations and hold team members accountable to safety, quality, and performance standards
- Lead hiring, training, performance management, and disciplinary actions as needed
- Build a positive, high-accountability culture grounded in trust, respect, and teamwork
- Identify skill gaps and drive training initiatives to strengthen team capability
- Use warehouse and inventory data to monitor performance and identify trends and inefficiencies
- Track and improve key performance metrics such as inventory accuracy, on-time shipment, and warehouse productivity
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives (5S, lean practices, standard work)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Production, Purchasing, and Quality to improve material flow and operational alignment
- Drive improvements in space utilization, throughput, and overall warehouse efficiency
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe warehouse environment
- Enforce all safety policies and procedures; lead by example in building a strong safety culture
- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and applicable regulations
- Maintain ≥99% inventory accuracy through disciplined inventory control and cycle counting
- Achieve ≥98% on-time shipment performance
- Ensure full completion and accuracy of cycle count programs
- Maintain a safe work environment with zero recordable incidents
- Drive measurable improvements in warehouse efficiency, organization, and material flow
- Proven experience as a Warehouse Supervisor or similar leadership role
- Strong experience in controlled warehouse environments with WMS systems (ERP-integrated preferred)
- Hands-on experience with handheld scanners and location-based inventory systems
- Deep knowledge of shipping, receiving, inventory control, and cycle counting best practices
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience in a manufacturing environment (sheet metal fabrication strongly preferred)
- Continuous learner mindset; actively seeks improvement and feedback
- Data-driven decision maker who relies on facts and performance metrics
- Hands-on, accountable leader who leads by example
- Organized, disciplined, and detail-oriented in both systems and physical workspace
- Builds trust through consistency, integrity, and respect for others
- Comfortable driving change and holding high standards while maintaining strong relationships
- Primarily based in a warehouse/manufacturing environment
- Regular standing, walking, and lifting (up to 50 lbs) required
- Exposure to typical warehouse conditions (noise, temperature variations)
- Standard schedule: Monday – Friday, 7:00am-3:30pm; flexibility required based on operational needs
This role is essential to ensuring accurate inventory, reliable production support, and on-time delivery to customers. Success in this position directly impacts operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and overall business performance. This is a strong opportunity for a leader who wants to make a measurable impact and grow within a manufacturing organization.
Physical Requirements:
Generally, 75% of the normal work shift requires standing bending, squatting, and climbing while running production, inspecting work and machines, and checking procedures.
Parts must be lifted, pulled, pushed, and held in place, without benefit of material handling devices due to limited space and confined areas in and around machines.
Safety-Sensitive Designation:
Jobs which involve one or more tasks or duties that could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others are considered safety-sensitive. This position is safety-sensitive because, in addition to the essential functions, it also involves performing one or more of the following essential tasks or duties:
- The handling, packaging, processing, storage, disposal or transport of hazardous material
- The operation of a motor vehicle, other vehicle, equipment, machinery or power tools
- Repairing, maintaining or monitoring the performance or operation of any equipment, machinery or manufacturing process, the malfunction or disruption of which could result in injury or property damage
- The operation, maintenance or oversight of critical services and infrastructure including, but not limited to, electric, gas, and water utilities, power generation or distribution.
- The extraction, compression, processing, manufacturing, handling, packaging, storage, disposal, treatment or transport of potentially volatile, flammable, combustible materials, elements, chemicals or any other highly regulated component.