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Shipping & Receiving Manager

NextDeavor
  • Danville, KY
  • $88,000–$115,000 Per Year
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Job Description

### Benefits You'll Love

- Comprehensive medical coverage, prescription drug coverage, dental and vision

- Voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance

- 401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay

- Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay

- Career development and tuition reimbursement

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability programs

- Adoption assistance and Care.com membership

- Supplemental programs available (identity protection, legal protection, pet wellness)

- Paid Time Off and 13 company-paid holidays

### Become a Key Player as a Shipping/Receiving Manager

You will lead warehouse transformation to ensure efficient receipt, storage, and dispatch of goods, driving inventory accuracy and on-time shipments. You will manage a team (approximately 9-10 direct reports; ~34 total in the warehouse) and partner with logistics, procurement, and production stakeholders to optimize operations. This is an onsite role in Danville, KY, focused on driving process, safety, and continuous improvement.

### Here's How You'll Make an Impact on the Team

- Oversee receiving, storing, picking, packing, and shipping activities to meet production and customer needs

- Supervise, train, mentor, and motivate warehouse staff to achieve productivity and quality standards

- Maintain inventory accuracy through cycle counts and coordination with procurement and operations

- Control daily plan vs. actual performance and report on warehouse metrics and productivity

- Optimize carriers, lanes, and costs across inbound/outbound logistics (LTL, parcel, multiple carriers)

- Lead transformation efforts to overhaul physical, digital, and procedural warehouse operations

- Implement and drive lean initiatives (5S, standard work, visual management, waste reduction)

- Ensure equipment maintenance and safe operation of forklifts, pallet jacks, and conveyors

- Champion safety and ergonomics in daily operations and compliance with health and safety regulations

### Here's What You'll Need to Be Successful in This Role

- Bachelor's degree (logistics, supply chain, business administration, or related field) required

- 5–7+ years manufacturing experience in shipping or materials management; proven warehouse manager experience

- Strong knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory management, and logistics

- Experience with warehouse management systems and SAP; proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, PowerPoint)

- Demonstrated leadership, team building, coaching, and change management skills

- Strong process skills for standardization, continuous improvement, and program management

- Analytical skills to monitor metrics and implement corrective actions

- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines; physical ability to oversee warehouse activities

### Here's What Else Might Help You Out

- APICS certification

- Experience with Precision transportation execution software

- Knowledge of import/export compliance, ITAR, and SOX compliance

- Background managing union-avoidance initiatives or culture change efforts

### Pay Range

$88,000 - $115,000/year (target 12.5% bonus)

### Ready to Make Your Mark?

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.

Numbers & Facts

LocationDanville, KY
IndustryOther/Not Classified
Salary$88,000–$115,000 Per Year
Company Size1 to 9 employees

About Company

NextDeavor offers a conscious approach to recruitment. We pride ourselves for our innovative selection and matching methods. Our core values are reflected in our culture; grounded in integrity, clarity, flexibility and cohesion. With this combination NextDeavor’s vision provides a collaborative solution to understanding talent and enriching human capital. Our approach brings a new dimension to the recruitment arena as organizations accurately match and select candidates based on their skills and cultural compatibility. While candidates are able to actively transition towards more engaging careers that fully utilize their skill set and allow for their professional development.

We are a forerunner in the recruitment world providing an algorithmically automated platform that simplifies the recruitment process while reducing overheads and increasing retention rates. With our specialized artificial intelligence platform, we are able to uncover new candidates, scaling the sourcing efforts of any talent acquisition team. NextDeavor matches technological advancements with meaningful candidate selection based on personality, job preferences and the ability for candidates to blend and enhance team dynamics.

The powerful dynamic of artificial intelligent technology interfaced with recruitment needs, means NextDeavor aligns talent, skills and culture seamlessly

Skills

  • APICS Certificationunmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Business Administrationunmatched
  • Career Developmentunmatched
  • Change Managementunmatched
  • Coachingunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Corrective Actionunmatched
  • Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
  • Ergonomicsunmatched
  • Forkliftunmatched
  • Health Planunmatched
  • Import/Export Complianceunmatched
  • Inventory Cycle Countsunmatched
  • Inventory Managementunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Legalunmatched
  • Less Than Truckload (LTL)unmatched
  • Logisticsunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Materials Managementunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Metricsunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft Officeunmatched
  • Microsoft Outlookunmatched
  • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
  • Microsoft SharePointunmatched
  • Microsoft Wordunmatched
  • Operationsunmatched
  • Operations Managementunmatched
  • Operations Processesunmatched
  • Order Picking/Packingunmatched
  • Pallet Jackunmatched
  • Performance Analysisunmatched
  • Prescription Drugsunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
  • Quality Metricsunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Retirement Planunmatched
  • SAPunmatched
  • Safety Complianceunmatched
  • Safety Processunmatched
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)unmatched
  • Shipping/Receivingunmatched
  • Staff Motivationunmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • Team Buildingunmatched
  • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Tuition Reimbursementunmatched
  • Warehousingunmatched

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