Warehouse Operations Lead- Boise, ID

Location:

Boise, ID, US, 83702-6924

The J.R. Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other enterprises related to agriculture.

Summary

Responsible for Warehouse vendor relationships and to ensure adherence to policies, recommendations on warehousing strategies to support service requirements, and timely identification and resolution of nonconforming situations. This position also assists in the development of systems, processes, and Warehousing network infrastructure necessary to achieve competitive advantage in service and total cost competitiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Provides warehousing approaches and the necessary supporting logistics infrastructure to provide quick and cost competitive inbound and outbound delivery for Company finished products. Helps ensure logistics asset investment (rolling stock, warehouses) are correctly located, correct capacity and managed to support achievement of Supply Chain objectives.

Assists in establishing and manage relationships with our contracted 3PL warehouse partners. This requires establishing and monitoring warehouse capacity, personnel contact lists, understanding operational issues or constraints that have potential impact to our finished products, and case damage management.

Maintains Warehouse SOP’s both to manage internal handling of finished inventory as well to ensure all contracted third-party warehouses have access to the current Company SOP’s (TeamShare) to manage and safe-guard Company finished inventory. This requires keeping apprised of Global Food Safety Standards and updating SOP’s to reflect any changes or required modifications. Warehouse visits to audit and ensure compliance to Company polices and SOP’s.

Point person to resolve all current 3PL Warehouse immediate needs: appointment schedules, OSD (overage, shortages, damages), assist with timely unloading of railcars, help with railcar bunching (instruct warehouses in unload priority-truck or rail), and communicate with shipping warehouses as required. Provides support for product holds and retrievals and oversee the truck loading and unloading to manage detention avoidance.

Assist warehousing group (internal) in ensuring food safety audits, CAP’s (Corrective Action Plans), and audit certificates are current and posted on Team Share and Warehousing folder.

Typical Education

Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Relevant Experience

3+ years related experience and/or training

Other Information

The ability to apply common sense or logic to a problem-solving solution. The level of ability to understand mathematical concepts for the successful completion of the job.

Job Requisition ID: 23262

Travel Required: Up to 50%

Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise

Country: United States

• The J.R. Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status. **