Distribution Supervisor

Status : Full-time

Reports to: Warehouse Manager

Location: Brampton Distribution Center

Shift: Monday – Friday Afternoons 2:00pm to 10:30pm

The pay range for the role is $62,600 to $104,300 plus bonus, comprehensive benefits, retirement savings plan, paid vacation, and other perks and opportunities.

Reporting to the Warehouse Manager, the scope of this position involves hands-on coordinating and managing the operations of both the finished goods and raw material warehouses, ensuring that HACCP regulations are followed, and exceptional customer service levels are maintained. This position is responsible for ensuring the safe, timely and accurate loading and unloading of transport trucks

Key Accountabilities:

• Run warehouse operations, ensuring compliance with all safety standards and HACCP regulations
• Supervision of warehouse staff, coordinate and prioritize workflow, provide training, performance evaluation and disciplinary procedures
• Responsible as a super user of the warehouse management system
• Recommend and implement changes to improve processes and productivity to ensure warehouse runs in an accurate and efficient manner
• Ensure warehouse facility is kept clean, all stock is maintained in an appropriate manner, good stock rotation practices are in place, and product is kept clean and damage free to ensure quality integrity
• Completion and documentation of MSS and HACCP related items
• Ability to be flexible in terms of shift work and weekend work and perform other duties as required

Qualifications & Competencies:

• Post secondary education and/or minimum five (5) years’ relevant work experience in a lead hand or supervisory capacity.
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices, including excellent sanitary habits and knowledge of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) considered a strong asset.
• Solid experience and working knowledge of an automated Warehouse Management System (WMS).
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, including written and verbal
• Effective leadership skills with the ability to work well with and through others.
• Familiar with total quality management and continuous improvement processes.
• Good decision-making & problem-solving capabilities.
• Computer skills – experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
• Physically capable of performing the demands of the job

Gay Lea Foods is a leading Canadian dairy co-operative renowned for producing high-quality, nutritious dairy products that Canadian families love and trust. From farm to table, our 1,200 farmer members in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 1,200 employees across four provinces, work together to nourish communities through award-winning brands including Gay Lea, Nordica, Salerno, Bothwell Cheese, and more. As part of its deeply rooted, balanced commitment to people, profit, and planet, Gay Lea Foods proudly invests one percent of pre-tax earnings back into Canadian communities through a national food security partnership with Second Harvest, and the community-building efforts of the Gay Lea Foundation. To learn more, visit gayleafoods.com .

Gay Lea Foods is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity in our workplace.

Reasonable accommodation is available upon request throughout our recruitment and selection process.

Gay Lea Foods may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support aspects of the recruitment process, including screening and assessment.

We are currently accepting applications for this open position.

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