Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and daily leadership for all warehouse operations.
• Develop and execute departmental goals aligned with company objectives.
• Build, coach, and develop warehouse leaders and hourly personnel.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Oversee all barrel receiving, shipping, storage movement, and work order processes.
• Ensure proper warehouse quality conditions for aging and storage.
• Coordinate barrel production and support production schedules, work orders, and bottling demands.
• Maintain accurate barrel locations via accounting and inventory ERP systems and provide accurate monthly inventory reports.
• Manage long term storage strategies.
• Maintain complete accountability for raw materials, barrels, bulk liquid, packaging materials, and finished case goods.
• Ensure inventory accuracy through cycle counting, audits, reconciliation, and process controls.
• Lead physical inventories.
• Work alongside Finance to ensure accurate inventory valuation and reporting.
• Optimize warehouse space utilization and inventory flow.
• Direct inbound and outbound transport activities.
• Ensure effective utilization of accounting and inventory tracking systems.
• Manage relationships with freight carriers, logistics providers and warehouse vendors.
• Coordinate shipment scheduling to meet customer delivery requirements.
• Optimize transportation cost while maintain services levels.
• Ensure timely shipments of finished case goods to distributers and customers.
• Coordinate daily materials flow to bottling operations.
• Ensure uninterrupted availability of barrels, bulk liquid, packaging materials, and finished case goods storage.
• Minimize downtime through effective planning.
• Maintain a strict Safety Culture throughout warehouse operations.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, TTB, DOT as related to warehouse operations.
• Maintain compliance with BRCGS (Brand Reputation Compliance Global Standards) quality standards.
• Lead incident investigations and corrective action programs.
• Manage team schedules and overtime needs.
• Develop and monitor warehousing KPIs.
• Control and maintain warehouse operating expenses.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Logistics, or other relevant discipline.
• Five years managing a Warehouse and Logistics environment and its team.
• Proficient with software systems that manage materials, inventory, and labor.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Preference for having worked in an ISO, SQF, BRCGS or other established quality program environment.

Physical and Mental Requirements

• Frequently required to sit, stand, kneel, or squat
• Use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk, hear, and communicate with other employees or customers
• Specific vision ability to include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally move more than 50lbs with assistance of lifting equipment or another team member
• Ability to analyze situations logically to identify causes and draw solid conclusions
• Ability to anticipate the consequences of a situation
• Ability to modify one’s own behavior to meet expectations of others
• Ability to sustain one’s own emotions from interfering with responding effectively to internal and external customer’s needs
• Exposure to indoor and outdoor environments that include extreme cold, wet, or hot weather
• Exposure to steam
• Exposure to alcohol odor/vapor
• Exposure to moving vehicles such as trucks, forklifts, tow motor, etc.
• Exposure to loud and congested work environment
• Maintain regular work attendance during scheduled hours
• Acknowledge and adhere to all company policies