Logistics and Distribution Manager - West Warwick, RI

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Job Description
Worthington Enterprises | Amtrol 
Worthington Enterprises | Amtrol designs, manufactures, and distributes pressure vessels, expansion tanks, well tanks, and water system solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, and OEM markets. The facility supports new product development, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution, delivering high-quality products that improve water quality, pressure management, and system reliability for customers across North America. 

 

Warehouse Manager 

The Warehouse Manager is responsible for leading end-to-end logistics execution across the West Warwick manufacturing facility, distribution warehouse operations, and vertically integrated supplier operations. This role ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective movement of raw materials, components, and finished goods while driving inventory accuracy, transportation performance, customer delivery, and continuous improvement across the organization.

 

The Logistics & Distribution Manager translates business and supply chain priorities into executable logistics plans, providing leadership across planning, shipping, receiving, warehousing, distribution, material flow, transportation, and vertically integrated supply operations. The role partners closely with both West Warwick and Corporate departments to ensure material availability, optimize product flow, and deliver strong customer experience.

 

The Logistics & Distribution Manager is accountable for establishing consistent processes, controls, and performance expectations across the logistics network while developing people, improving cost and service performance, and building the capabilities necessary to support continued business growth.

 

This position provides leadership across three physical locations and has multiple direct reports, requiring strong cross-site coordination, standardized execution, and accountability across the logistics network.

 

Primary Responsibilities 

Safety, Quality & Compliance Leadership 

Lead a safety-first culture across shipping, receiving, warehousing, distribution, material handling, and supplier operations. 
Ensure compliance with company safety standards, OSHA requirements, DOT and transportation requirements, environmental expectations, and established material-handling practices.
Establish and maintain standards for product handling, packaging, storage, loading, and transportation to protect product quality and minimize damage.
Partner with Quality and Operations to address transportation damage, material discrepancies, supplier concerns, and other logistics-related quality issues.
 

Logistics, Distribution & Customer Delivery

Lead daily shipping and receiving operations at the manufacturing facility and distribution activities across the warehouse network. 
Ensure finished goods are accurately picked, staged, loaded, shipped, and delivered in alignment with customer requirements and committed delivery dates. 
Establish daily and weekly logistics priorities based on production schedules, customer demand, inventory requirements, and transportation capacity. 
Partner with Planning, Operations, and Commercial to prioritize customer requirements, including backlog recovery, expedited orders, and critical customer needs. 
Manage carrier execution and transportation performance, including routing, freight utilization, service levels, expedites, spot freight, and freight-cost management.

 

Material Flow, Inventory & Vertically Integrated Supply

Lead inbound material flow from vertically integrated supplier operations to ensure manufacturing requirements are supported with the right material, quantity, quality, and timing. 
Establish effective replenishment and material-movement processes between supplier, manufacturing, and distribution locations. 
Drive inventory accuracy across shipping, receiving, warehouse, and supplier operations through disciplined transactions, cycle-count processes, reconciliation, and root-cause corrective action.
 

People Leadership & Organizational Capability 

Lead, coach, and develop shipping, receiving, warehouse, and distribution leadership and employees.
Build a strong leadership pipeline through development of managers, supervisors, group leads, and high-potential employees.
Partner with Human Resources Business Partner to improve staffing, onboarding, training, qualification, retention, engagement, and cross-training aligned with business needs.
Create a culture of ownership in which employees understand how safety, inventory accuracy, freight performance, and execution directly impact the customer and business.
 

Strategy, Financial Performance & Growth 

Partner with the Senior Business Director and Supply Chain leadership to define and execute logistics and distribution strategies supporting West Warwick business objectives. 
Own logistics performance against budget and key cost drivers, including freight, premium freight, labor, overtime, warehousing, material handling, packaging, and other controllable logistics expenses. 
Develop strategies to improve transportation utilization, reduce premium freight, optimize warehouse capacity, and lower overall cost-to-serve