Warehouse Outbound Supervisor
Legacy Paper & PackagingSUMMARY: The Warehouse Outbound Supervisor is responsible for overseeing all aspects of outbound operations within the warehouse, ensuring customer orders are picked, checked, staged, and prepared efficiently and accurately. This role requires strong organizational skills, leadership capabilities, attention to detail, and a commitment to maintaining high safety, quality, and customer service standards. COMPANY RESPONSIBILITIES: Safety – Observe and follow safety procedures. High Performance – Consistently perform at a high level and with a sense of urgency. Integrity & Honesty – Demonstrate and enforce full compliance to rules, regulations and standards in a candid, truthful and ethical manner. Focus – Stays on task to achieve goals and objectives even during difficult and stressful situations. Teamwork – Cooperatively works with team members to solve problems, identify waste and meet organizational goals. POSITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Outbound Operations Management: Supervise all outbound warehouse activities, including order picking, order checking and staging. Ensure customer orders are picked accurately and according to company standards and customer requirements. Monitor orders to ensure products, quantities, and special instructions are properly verified before shipment. Coordinate outbound workflow to ensure orders are completed and staged according to scheduled delivery requirements. Monitor daily workload and adjust priorities based on customer needs, delivery schedules, and operational requirements. Ensure outbound paperwork is completed accurately and turned in according to company procedures. Help minimize mispulls, shipping errors, damaged products, and other outbound-related issues. Leadership: Direct and supervise a team of warehouse staff, ensuring proper training and adherence to company policies and procedures. Assign tasks, manage schedules, and monitor employee performance to achieve productivity and accuracy goals. Provide coaching, direction, and corrective feedback when necessary. Foster a positive work environment that promotes teamwork, accountability, communication, and respect. Ensure employees understand daily priorities, expectations, and changes to outbound operations. Assist with onboarding and training new warehouse employees in outbound processes and procedures. Order Accuracy & Quality Monitor the picking and checking process to ensure orders are fulfilled accurately. Establish and reinforce proper procedures for verifying products, quantities and order information. Investigate outbound errors and work with appropriate departments to identify root causes and prevent repeat issues Monitor product handling practices to reduce damage and maintain quality Ensure special instructions, customer notes and other order requirements are communicated and followed. Process Optimization: Identify and implement improvements to streamline outbound processes and enhance operational efficiency Review outbound processes for opportunities to reduce errors, wasted time, unnecessary movement and product damage. Assist in developing and maintaining standard operating procedures for outbound operations. Monitor workflow and recommend staffing or process adjustments based on operational needs. Support continuous improvement initiatives throughout the warehouse. Compliance and Safety: Ensure all inbound activities comply with company policies, safety regulations, and industry standards. Conduct regular inspections and audits to maintain a clean, organized, and hazard-free environment. Enforce proper use of any PPE and safe operations of forklifts, pallet jacks and other warehouse equipment. Address unsafe behaviors and conditions promptly. Inventory Coordination: Work closely with inventory and warehouse personnel to resolve product shortages, location issues, and order discrepancies. Communicate inventory concerns that may affect outbound order fulfillment. Assist with inventory counts an…