Warehouse Manager

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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Logistics, Operations, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent logistics leadership experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in logistics, distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, or supply chain operations.
• Strong understanding of shipping and receiving, warehouse operations, transportation management, inventory control, and material flow.
• Experience leading operations across multiple departments or locations preferred.
• Strong understanding of transportation cost drivers, carrier management, freight optimization, and customer delivery performance.
• Demonstrated ability to improve inventory accuracy and establish effective material-control processes.
• Experience with ERP, WMS, TMS, inventory-management, and production-planning systems preferred.

Leadership Traits for Success

• People & Culture Leader: Develops high-performing teams through coaching, clear accountability, employee development, and a strong culture of engagement and ownership.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Challenges current performance, applies data to solve problems, and creates sustainable operating systems.
• Cross-Functional Leader: Builds alignment across functions, communicates clearly, and makes timely decisions in support of the customer and business.

Our Company is proud to have a dynamic and inclusive workforce where employees are empowered to innovate, thrive and grow. We believe that each employee's unique strengths contribute to the success of our organization. This belief extends to how we consider our job applicants. Your talents may align with this position or other opportunities within our organization. Apply today to start unlocking your career potential with Worthington Enterprises.

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Worthington Enterprises (NYSE: WOR) is a designer and manufacturer of market-leading brands that help improve everyday life by elevating spaces and experiences. The Company operates with two primary business units: Building Products and Consumer Products.

The Building Products segment includes cooking, heating, cooling and water solutions, architectural and acoustical grid ceilings and metal framing and accessories. The Consumer Products segment provides solutions for the tools, outdoor living and celebrations categories. Product brands within the Worthington Enterprises portfolio include Balloon Time, Bernzomatic, Coleman (propane cylinders), CoMet, Elgen, Garden Weasel, General, HALO, Hawkeye, Level5 Tools, Mag Torch, NEXI, Pactool International, PowerCore, Ragasco, Well-X-Trol and XLite, among others.

Founded in 1955 as Worthington Industries, Worthington Enterprises follows a people-first Philosophy with earning money for its shareholders as its first corporate goal. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Worthington Enterprises and its joint ventures employ approximately 6,000 people throughout North America and Europe.