• Job Description

  Req#: 28039

  About Us

  Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.

  What You'll Do

  • Apply advanced, interdisciplinary, operations process management techniques that enable mechatronics and site operations best practices to improve facility operations and business processes.

  • Apply experiential and formal learning across automation reliability, analytics/metrics development-reporting, inventory control methodology, continuous improvement, and labor management practices to optimize automated site performance.

  • Lead and oversee operations workstream input into WES and WMS applications to enable optimized administrative and warehouse procedural efficiencies across the automated warehouse functional groups. • Lead, advise, and train associates and direct reports as assigned.

  What Experience You Need

  • Associates Degree required BS degree in engineering, technical or supply chain discipline preferred

  • 3 years general supervisory/management experience.

  • Minimum of 5 years related experience required - 7-10 years preferred leading large conventional complex conventional warehouses or leading in high-speed manufacturing or continuous process manufacturing operations. • Start up or “Turn around” experience including WMS conversions, launches, automation go-lives and/or labor management implementation a significant plus• Proficient computer skills; experience in all MS Office Professional applications, AS400, Red Prairie/JDA WMS, LMS.

  Physical Requirements & Abilities: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job• Requires several hours /day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, reaching, bending, lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 30 pounds• May require travel by automobile and airplane • May require visiting facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing• Requires the use of various electronic tools • Occasionally works evenings or weekends to complete objectives or to attend meetingsAmericold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action EmployerEOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW

  What Could Set You Apart

  • Strong leadership skills.

  • Problem solving skills.

  • Previous experience in a food storage or distribution facility.

  What We Offer

  Our associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me? We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

  Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

  EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.

  Compensation Minimum

  Compensation Maximum

• About the company

  Americold is the global leader in temperature controlled warehousing and logistics to the food industry, offering the most comprehensive warehousing, transportation and logistics solutions in the world. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and ope...

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