Warehouse Supervisor

Company

Role overview

Warehouse leadership and operations

• Plans and assigns daily workloads, sets priorities, supervises and develops employees, and monitors performance, attendance, productivity, and safety.
• Provides hands-on support during workload peaks, urgent shipments, inventory counts, and staff absences; coordinates with Supply Chain, Production, Service, Project Management, Finance, and Customer Service.
• Oversees receiving, inspection, identification, labelling, put-away, internal movement, and accurate ERP/WMS transactions.
• Investigates shortages, damages, incorrect materials, and documentation discrepancies; ensures quarantined, returned, customer-supplied, project-specific, and nonconforming materials are identified and segregated.
• Oversees picking, packing, staging, and shipping; ensures materials are protected, labelled, and documented for transport.
• Coordinates courier, LTL, air, sea, domestic, international, import, and export shipments, customs documentation, brokers, freight charges, claims, holds, and delivery exceptions.
• Maintains inventory accuracy, bin discipline, warehouse records, and system transactions; leads cycle counts, physical counts, reconciliations, and corrective actions.
• Supports excess and obsolete inventory disposition, consolidation, Kanban, VMI, kitting, and production replenishment; maintains procedures and work instructions.
• Maintains a safe, clean, organized warehouse; inspects safety practices and equipment, reports incidents and near misses, and supports audits and 5S.
• Reviews demand, receipts, shortages, and shipping commitments; tracks performance and recommends improvements to staffing, layout, capacity, equipment, and workflow.

Competencies

• The role calls for warehouse supervision, accurate ERP/WMS transactions, inventory control, shipping and receiving, and coordination of domestic and international shipments.
• Expected competencies include integrity, accountability, strategic thinking, initiative, continuous learning, teamwork, results orientation, and commitment to safety.

Compensation and benefits

• Pay is $75,000 to $90,000 per annum, dependent on experience and qualifications.
• Benefits include extended health and dental coverage, RRSP matching, education and training funding, social functions, paid personal wellness time, and career advancement opportunities.