Warehouse Operations Supervisor

Summary

CHS is seeking a Warehouse Operations Supervisor to lead and support daily warehouse activities at our Lubricants Facility in Inver Grove Heights, MN. This role primarily supports first shift operations and provides coordination and leadership support to second shift activities as needed. In this position, you will oversee a team responsible for shipping, receiving, inventory control, material handling, and storage of packaged lubricant products. You will ensure safe, accurate, and efficient movement of materials while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, and transportation regulations.

This is a hands-on leadership role ideal for someone with strong communication skills, a commitment to safety, and a passion for operational excellence in a fast-paced manufacturing and distribution environment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily warehouse activities, ensuring adherence to safety, quality, inventory accuracy, and productivity standards.
• Provide leadership continuity and operational coordination across shifts for warehouse activities as needed to ensure alignment across shifts.
• Lead shipping and receiving operations, ensuring timely and accurate fulfillment of customer orders and inbound material receipts.
• Work with supply, operations and shipping coordinators to ensure efficient warehouse and material handling operations to support customer delivery commitments.
• Ensure compliance with company, customer, DOT, and regulatory requirements related to transportation, hazmat handling, load securement, and storage.
• Develop and post crew schedules to efficiently meet shipping volumes, receiving demands, and inventory cycle count requirements.
• Work with supply, operations and shipping coordinators to ensure efficient operations of warehouse activities and seamless material flow.
• Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives focused on warehouse layout optimization, inventory accuracy, dock efficiency, and cost reduction working with supply, operations and shipping.
• Monitor key warehouse metrics such as on-time shipments, inventory accuracy, dock-to-stock time, order accuracy, and safety performance.
• Review operational data and initiate corrective actions to address discrepancies, delays, or performance gaps.
• Ensure proper documentation and adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs) for material handling, storage, labeling, and shipment preparation.
• Support QA programs by ensuring proper product handling, lot control, and traceability throughout the warehouse.
• Diagnose and address warehouse equipment issues and coordinate with maintenance for timely repairs.
• Cultivate and promote a strong safety culture, including forklift safety, pedestrian awareness, dock safety, and hazard identification.
• Perform other responsibilities as needed or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• High School diploma or GED
• 2+ years of experience in 
• warehouse operations, logistics, distribution, or manufacturing operations

Additional Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED
• Working understanding of refinery assets, production line and capability
• Demonstrated ability to influence people within and across organizational lines
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills in communicating to supervised employees as well as cross-functional team-members.
• Demonstrated ability and skill to analyze, interpret and use data to make timely and effective decisions
• Demonstrated effective use of computers for communication and data analysis
• Knowledge of products, product quality factors, and equipment capabilities
• Ability to work extended hours as needed to meet business demands
• Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.