Warehouse Supervisor
ConfidentialRole Description The Warehouse Supervisor leads daily warehouse activities, making sure seafood products are received, stored, prepared, and shipped accurately and on time. Working closely with warehouse leads, this person organizes staffing, coordinates deliveries and pickups, and keeps operations moving as priorities change throughout the day. The role also oversees inventory accuracy and ensures the team follows workplace safety, food safety, and cold chain procedures. Key Responsibilities Oversee daily receiving, storage, order preparation, loading, and dispatch to ensure orders are handled accurately and on schedule. Coordinate truck schedules, deliveries, and pickups, adjusting daily priorities as production and customer needs change. Plan staffing needs, assign work, and coordinate activities across shifts, ensuring clear handovers and adequate coverage. Ensure employees follow workplace safety, food safety, sanitation, and cold chain procedures. Work closely with other departments as needed to coordinate activities, resolve issues, and support daily operations. Ability to promote a positive workplace culture built on respect, teamwork, accountability, and open communication. Monitor cooler temperatures, review temperature records, and promptly address or report any concerns. Stay in regular contact with Transportation, Sales, and Production to coordinate schedules, resolve issues, and keep everyone informed of changes. Provide evening and weekend coverage as needed to support warehouse operations. Operate forklifts, pallet jacks and other warehouse equipment as needed to support receiving, loading, unloading, and product movement, following company safety procedures. Monitor team productivity and accuracy, provide coaching, and identify ways to improve daily workflows. Work closely with warehouse leads to address operational challenges and keep daily activities on track. Check shipping documents, packing lists, and receiving records to ensure they are accurate and match system entries. Ensure products are properly scanned into the system, identified, stored, and rotated, with accurate lot information maintained for traceability. Review physical inventory counts completed by warehouse leads, compare results with system records, and follow up on discrepancies. Prepare month-end inventory reports, ensuring counts, approved adjustments, and discrepancies are documented and reported. Provide regular feedback to employees, work with the Warehouse Manager to address performance concerns, and contribute input for performance evaluations. Keep the Warehouse Manager informed of daily performance and any significant staffing, inventory, equipment, safety, or delivery issues. Qualifications: At least three years of warehouse experience, including one year supervising or leading a team. Experience handling seafood, food products, or other perishable goods in a cold storage environment preferred. Experience with receiving, shipping, order preparation, dispatch, and inventory counts. Understanding of food safety, temperature control, inventory rotation, and lot traceability. Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to make decisions and adjust to changing priorities. Ability to train employees, delegate work, give clear direction, and follow through on performance expectations. Good communication and problem-solving skills, with a practical, hands-on approach to teamwork. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. High school diploma or equivalent required. Experience using handheld scanners for receiving, order picking, and inventory tracking. Experience using warehouse or inventory management systems; familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central preferred. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. Physical Requirements: Work regularly in cold, temperature-controlled warehouse areas and wear required PPE. Stand and walk for extended periods, with bending, reaching, and material handling as n…