Warehouse Manager (Mon-Friday; Must have Moving & Management Exp; Valid Driver's License)

Humble Design changes lives and communities by furnishing the home of individuals, families, and veterans emerging from homelessness. Overview: Founded in 2009, Humble Design changes lives and communities by furnishing the homes of individuals, families, and veterans emerging from homelessness. Currently, many that secure permanent housing arrive to an empty space with their belongings in a bag and an air mattress for the hard floor. As a result, many return to homelessness within a few years. Humble Design stops the continuum of homelessness by furnishing homes with donated furniture and personalized design. The Team: We, the Chicago team and national Humble Design community, are connectors and doers on a mission to help end the revolving door of homelessness. We move with swift, bold action, driven by our humble mission. We believe in collaboration, community, compassion, and above all, serving our clients with dignity and respect. The Role: The Warehouse Manager will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the Humble Design warehouse and moving team and ensuring that the staff and resources are in place where needed to service clients weekly. This person needs to be flexible and willing to jump in where needed, skilled at time management and prioritization, and able to communicate effectively with staff and volunteers. Overall duties include managing logistics, supplies and inventory, as well as supporting team members, volunteers and donors. The ideal candidate will have sound warehouse and moving leadership experience with proven team leadership skills. The ideal candidate must have experience moving, safely driving a cargo van and a 17-20’ moving truck. They will have a passion for our mission with a strong desire to help those in Chicago emerging from homelessness. Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include but are not limited to the following: Management of Warehouse, Staff and Inventory Manage processes and moving staff to ensure consistent communication and alignment of needs and goals. Maintain an organized, clean, and safe warehouse environment. Receive, move, load, unload, and organize donated furnishings from drop offs and pickups. Maintain a tracking system of inventory in the warehouse. Ensure donations are labelled as necessary and placed in designated areas. Maintain and organize tools, supplies and equipment. Build and oversee building of furniture as needed. Ensure all cleaning kits and toolkits are fully replenished daily. Oversee preparation for deco days, ensuring movers have all selected inventory and items needed for a successful installation. Track any supply needs for the warehouse and/or kits and submit weekly. Oversee warehouse projects including building shelving, purging inventory, and repairing furniture as needed (proficiency with tools a must). Management of Relationships Support volunteers, designers and staff by locating, pulling and moving items requested. Work with other employees, volunteers, functional counterparts and any hired contractors as needed to ensure obligations on are met. Able to manage and mentor others. Qualities and Skills : Compassion and empathy for our clients and mission. Driver’s license and ability to driver transit/cargo van and up to a 20’ moving truck. Collaborative team-player able to take a service oriented approach to interactions. Strong verbal and written communication skills, internally and externally, with the ability to convey actions, decisions, and needs in a professional, mission-driven manner to bring others along effectively and efficiently. Flexible, action-oriented, forward-thinking approach: ability to anticipate needs and take action, identify opportunities for process improvement, and follow through to implementation and communication of solutions. Self-starter, independent team member with ability to work successfully as part of a team. Ability to lift and transport heavy items of 50 pounds daily and operate eq…

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