Warehouse Supervisor - 2nd Shift 

LOCATION: Salisbury / North Carolina (US-NC), United States | BRAND: New York Air Brake | REQUISITION ID: 3214 | JOB GRADE: 14 

Since 1890, New York Air Brake has been an innovative leader in the heavy-haul railroad industry. As a member company of Knorr-Bremse –the world’s leading manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles--New York Air Brake is recognized worldwide as a Center of Competence for heavy-haul freight railroad control systems. From multiple locations, we serve customers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—reaching clear across the globe to South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, and Australia. Our talented, diverse, and dedicated teams develop innovative solutions to the challenges facing our customers. Join us in our next steps.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Title

Warehouse Supervisor

Reports to

Supply Chain Manager

Summary/Objective

Supervise and assist in daily warehouse areas including receiving, shipping, handling distribution, and storage of all freight, product, and supplies that come in and out of the warehouse.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Daily interaction in a professional and ethical manner with site personnel and/or customers, vendors and carriers to coordinate freight services to support manufacturing schedules and customer orders.
2. Communicate all delays or variances in inbound/outbound freight to the appropriate parties.
3. Supervise a team of warehouse employees, including hiring, delegation, training, performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, and termination.
4. Maintain control over inventory levels in order to meet internal and external demand of product and working capital objectives.
5. Investigate causes of lost or damaged shipments and other matters, make adjustments where necessary.
6. Ability to coach, train, and lead work teams to achieve performance as it relates to specialization in receiving, processing, storage, order picking, loading and unloading.
7. Follow any and all company policies, procedures, practices and standards of conduct as outlined by Knorr Bremse & NYAB manuals and any US Customs Compliance regulations necessary.
8. Coordinate with logistics/planning personnel on any shipment related issues.
9. Assist in achieving KPS (Knorr Production System), SCE (Supply Chain Excellence) and Delivery Quality Initiatives
10. Maintains inventory by helping/assisting when necessary daily/monthly cycle counts, reconciling variances, inputting data
11. Implement and monitor 5S practices in the warehouse and related areas
12. Keeps equipment operating by enforcing operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns; requiring preventive maintenance, calling for repairs.
13. Strategy & Vision - Describes the ability to develop strategies aligned to the organization's vision, putting them into action and taking a big picture view, considering future influences.
14. Managing & Improving Processes - Describes the ability to plan, prioritize, monitor and improve work processes and allocate resources.
15. Creativity & Innovation - Includes creating an atmosphere of openness and curiosity for innovations, providing and implementing inventive ideas that add value.
16. Analytical Thinking - Refers to collecting, analyzing and structuring information using a wide perspective in order to identify key issues and patterns as well as to drawing conclusions.
17. Leading Others - Means to give direction, motivate, manage and reward performance, provide constructive feedback and foster individual professional development.
18. Must understand and support all Quality, Product Safety, and Health/Safety/Environmental/Energy policies.
19. Must understand and adhere to all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations.
20. Must understand, support and adhere to the Integrated Management System policies, procedures and instructions.
21. Must understand and support relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the goal tree.

Skills and Competencies

1. Technical Capacity
   • Basic knowledge of SAP
   • Demonstrated understanding of basic manufacturing and warehousing processes.
   • Knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word & Excel
2. Ability to work in a team environment with a cross functional team of traffic, customs, purchasing, sales and other SBU locations.
3. Effective leadership skills in a multifunctional, demanding environment.
4. Communication Proficiency
5. Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects simultaneously   
6. Strong organizational and prioritization skills

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has supervisory responsibilities. <5

Work Environment

The employee will be required to perform duties on a computer terminal. The employee will be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt etc. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of an office work environment position.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor Degree in Business/SCM/Logistics or 5 years relevant experience

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

Safety Sensitive Position  

☒Yes  ☐No

Safety Sensitive Positions Include: Rail Service Technicians, Assemblers and Supervisors, General Technicians, Assemblers and Mechanics, Assembly Test Technicians, and Field Service Technicians, Assemblers, Mechanics, Engineers and Supervisors

WHAT WE OFFER
From Engineering to Test Laboratory; Manufacturing & Skilled Machine Operation to Sales and Marketing; Field Service to Customer Service; Quality to HR to Finance to Software Development, our team-based approach is built on inclusion, opportunity, development, social responsibility and rewards. You are afforded the chance to grow personally and professionally through challenging assignments, commitment to continuing education, exposure to a variety of projects, and international travel. Our benefits are cutting edge as we offer student loan repayment assistance, lucrative 401k program, company assisted stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, wellness program, onsite workout facilities & classes along with competitive salary and incentive compensation, generous paid time off programs and a full array of medical, dental and vision options. We’ve got the right stuff, do you? Let’s find out together.

ARE YOU INTERESTED?
Then join us! We look forward to receiving your online application!