Romeoville, Illinois, United States · On-site
$100k–$120k/yr
Job Purpose: The Production Operations Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and executing daily warehouse production to meet customer order fulfillment requirements in a public third-party logistics (3PL) envi…
Skills: Warehouse Production Management, Labor Planning, Order Fulfillment, 3PL Operations, Performance Management
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Responsible for planning and executing daily warehouse production and labor allocation to meet customer order fulfillment requirements in a 3PL environment. The role focuses on maximizing throughput and productivity while ensuring compliance with food safety and security regulations.
Requires a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or Engineering, or 5-10 years of related experience in warehouse or 3PL operations. Candidates must possess strong analytical skills and proficiency in Warehouse Management Systems and MS Office.
The Production Operations Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and executing daily warehouse production to meet customer order fulfillment requirements in a public third-party logistics (3PL) environment. This role owns daily volume execution, labor allocation, and prioritization of work to ensure customer orders are fulfilled accurately, on time, and at required service levels.
The Production Operations Manager focuses on what gets done, by whom, and when - balancing labor, volume, and priorities across shifts while responding to changing customer demands. This role works closely with the Process Operations Manager to execute established processes while maximizing throughput, productivity, and service performance.
Core duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned, as this list is not exhaustive. This position requires the Production Operations Manager to physically report to work in order to effectuate the below responsibilities. Duties apply to at any and all Distribution 2000, Inc. locations, including 1165 W. Crossroads, 1200-1208 N. Schmidt Road, and 1186 Arbor Drive, and any other locations that may be added from time to time; travel between facilities will be required.
Oversees and manages all operational staff with regard to process on assigned shifts. May be required to work Saturdays, when applicable, and may serve as backup for operational managers, supervisors, leads as necessary.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or related field, or five to ten years related experience and/or training; five or more years of experience in warehouse or 3PL operations with direct responsibility for production or shift execution; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong understanding of warehouse labor planning and order fulfillment operations. Demonstrated ability to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Ability to read, analyze and interpret business reports, procedures and processes. Ability to respond to common inquires or complaints from employees and external and internal customers. Ability to effectively and succinctly present information to top management, clear, confident communicator at all organizational levels.
Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, and factor analysis.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Process-driven and detail-oriented mindset, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Warehouse Management System; Made4Net, Synapse, RF, Bar Code Scanning
MS Office: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger; handle, feel; reach with hands and arms; push and pull with hands and arms; sit; and talk and/or hear.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee can be exposed to cold and heat, depending on season.
The noise level in the warehouse work environment can be loud.
D2000 is a 3PL warehouse. We specialize in providing value added services for organic and natural food brands.
At Distribution 2000, we excel in handling specialty foods and fast moving consumer packaged goods. Our sophisticated warehouse facilities serve a group of high profile brands in the specialty food market, including a number of well known organic, gourmet and artisan foods and consumer products. These high value brands use Distribution 2000 because our capabilities and services exactly fit their warehousing and distribution needs. Because of our sharp focus on this niche market, we are able to offer our specialty food customers significant benefits. Our expertise in handling their products and our thorough understanding of their market, their distribution chain, their retailers and their end consumers means they enjoy considerable operational efficiencies working with Distribution 2000. We offer our customers multi channel distribution arrangements, including specialty food retailers, main stream retailers and alternative channel retailers, and we work with a wide network of specialty distributors throughout the country. Distribution 2000 make it our mission to ensure that fine foods are handled, stored and shipped with the care and attention they deserve. We specialize in organic food and product handling. We run an FDA registered food grade warehouse that is USDA National Organic Program (NOP) compliance audited by Oregon Tilth Certified Organic (OTCO). We are also a member of the Organic Trade Association.
Offices: 1165 West Crossroads Parkway, Romeoville, Illinois 60446, US
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