Warehouse Supervisor

What are we offering you?

• LOCATION: Karratha, WA- Residential (*** FIFO is not offered for this role)
• Work-Life Balance: Monday - Friday role!
• Training - commensurate with experience
• Rewards & Recognition Program
• Discounted health insurance with Medibank
• Novated Leasing options
• Lifestyle discounts with Woolworths, Coles, Avis, JB Hifi and 500+ other retailers
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 28K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! http://www.WabtecCorp.com

Who will you be working with?

Reporting to the Service Leader - Rio Tinto you will be responsible for leading the daily operations of our warehouse facility in Karratha, WA. You will play a leading role in ensuring the efficient and effective execution of day-to-day activities of the warehouse and related distribution functions. The Warehouse Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring that effective customer material management, fulfillment, warehouse operations, safe working practices and rigorous inventory controls are achieved.

Where is the position located?

Karratha, WA- Residential. *** Please note: FIFO is not offered for this position. This role is a Monday to Friday position.

What will your typical day look like?

• Conduct daily pre-start meeting.
• Daily monitoring and supervision of all warehouse activities and warehouse staff, adjustment of daily workloads and priorities dependent upon changing business priorities.
• Oversee warehouse receipts, deliveries and dispatches to ensure quality and quantity of commodities.
• Verify quality and count of commodities being received, collected and delivered from the Wabtec warehouse.
• Liaise with transport vendors as point of site contact
• Identify and address inventory reduction and relocation, and document correctly all such operations.
• Perform regular physical inventories of commodities counts in the warehouse.  Maintain inventory records.
• Monitoring and controlling inventory integrity through audit and correct material handling practices.
• Resolve inventory problems in a timely manner and escalate as required.
• Track and report non-conforming products to ensure transactional integrity.
• Supervise cleaning, maintenance and repair of the warehouse.
• Conduct regular warehouse inspections, including but not limited to controls, standard operating procedures, safe working practices, etc.
• Ensure accurate and neat stacking of commodities.  Train employees on good stacking methods and commodity handling practices.

What do we want to know about you?

• Residing in / relocating to the Karratha region (FIFO is not offered for this position)
• Forklift Licence.
• 5-10 years' experience working in a warehouse environment, preferably in the Mining, rail or heavy machinery sectors.
• Experience managing a team
• Proven strong stakeholder relationships, both internal (warehouse team & other departments) and external.
• Some training and/or experience in Commodity or General Stock Management, Logistics, Financial Management, Accounting or equivalent would be preferred.
• Solid working knowledge of computers and the following software:  Oracle, MS Excel, MS Word.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.

Please note: Successful candidates will be required to complete background and criminal history check

We thank all applicants for their interest; each application will receive a response.

We do not accept unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies.