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The Shipping and Warehouse Manager plays a critical leadership role in driving safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across warehouse and shipping operations. This position is responsible for creating a safe, efficient, and compliant environment, optimizing all glass movements, and developing a high-performing team that delivers exceptional value to both internal and external customers. In alignment with Guardian's Vision and Principle Based Management.

The role will champion innovation, stewardship, and operational excellence while supporting the plant's long-term success.

What You Will Do

• Lead and continuously strengthen a safe, compliant, and high-performing warehouse operation, promoting safety excellence and a strong EH&S culture.
• Optimize and transform all glass movement processes across the plant to maximize efficiency, reliability, and service levels for internal and external customers.
• Drive continuous improvement and transformation initiatives across storage, material handling, loading, packaging, systems, and equipment, delivering measurable gains in safety, productivity, and cost effectiveness.
• Lead, motivate, and develop warehouse teams to achieve and exceed key performance indicators, including claims, scrap, OTIF, and inventory health.
• Ensure full understanding and consistent application of compliance programs, company policies, and Guiding Principles across the team.
• Support the deployment of RREs, decision rights, and performance management processes for warehouse and planning teams, with a strong focus on capability building, innovation, and employee development.
• Partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, and Plant Leadership to achieve business objectives, support organizational priorities, and drive sustainable change.
• Ensure inventory accuracy, minimize waste and losses, and maintain the safe and effective operation of warehouse facilities and equipment.
• Lead workforce planning efforts, including the recruitment, onboarding, training, and development of warehouse operators and shift managers.
• Champion a culture of ownership, continuous learning, operational excellence, and value creation aligned with Guardian's Vision and Principle Based Management.
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven leadership experience with direct supervisory responsibility in a manufacturing, industrial, or heavy industries environment.
• Experience leading warehouse, logistics, or material handling operations within a manufacturing setting.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate, and drive positive change across teams and organizational levels.
• Strong understanding of operational hazards, risk management, and safety practices within manufacturing environments.
• Experience with Warehouse Management processes and Process Hazard Assessment.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.