Warehouse Supervisor (Night Shift)

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula. We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in for than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

A Typical Day

The Warehouse and Logistics Supervisor Facilitates and coordinates information flow regarding customer’s needs between customer service, warehousing and the cheese production staff.  Works with grading team to help insure product quality meets customer’s needs. Also, encourage a high level of communication with all members of the distribution team and cheese production staff.

Responsibilities

• Works with customer service staff, warehouse staff and production and distribution supervisor to reconcile all inventory discrepancies.
• Participates in all physical counts at all locations.
• Develops procedures for warehouse functions which includes Warehouse Management System
• Supervises forklift staff, coordinates forklift drivers schedules to schedules to maximize staff.
• Complete annual OSHA regulatory safety training.
• Complete annual  Food Safety overview training
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off. 
• Help coach and train teammates and participate in on the job, buddy training.
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
• Hold self and others accountable to HCC’s food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates. 
• Participate in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required. 
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by having a safety first approach at all times.
• Report any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your teams and follow up. 
• Participate in departmental safety teams.
• Promote Company Culture
• Achieve common business goals through cooperative alignment with all departments.

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• High School diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• 1 year of experience in manufacturing environment.   
• Must be able to work weekends, holidays and rotating shifts (day/swing/graveyard)
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel, Outlook and ERP systems
• Pass a pre-employment skills assessment test  
• Pass the level 5 Post offer Employment Testing

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience and knowledge of the cheese and whey production as well as common production issues.
• 2 years ERP experience
• 1 Year WMS Experienced

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.

Stand and walk almost the entire workday.

Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within the cheese plant.

Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.

Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.

English Information | Spanish Information