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Ilitch Companies · 5 months ago

Distribution Center Director

Grand Prairie, TX 75050

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

5+ years exp

Ilitch Companies is a family-owned business dedicated to innovative food service logistics. They are seeking a Distribution Center Director responsible for overseeing operations and staff at the distribution center to ensure efficiency and profitability, while also managing customer service and compliance with regulations.

Food and BeverageHospitalityTravel

Responsibilities

Manages the customer service aspects of business. Ensures clean deliveries to units. Conducts periodic surveys of customer satisfaction. Provides feedback and goals to staff and measures improvement

Monitor’s flow of scheduled inbound product ordered centrally and locally. Reviews all electronic purchase orders and troubleshoots overdue purchase order listing from both vendor and corporate. Assists with maintaining inventory turn ratio, fill rate, and controls shrinkage

Hires, onboards, and trains drivers, warehouse, and office staff. Ensures low level of turnover

Demonstrates leadership qualities and supervises branch staff through the appropriate use of communication, delegation, follow up, performance evaluation and positive reinforcement to ensure direction is implemented properly. Conducts performance reviews, both formal and informal, to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the staff. Also conducts driver ride-alongs standard= 1 ride-along with each driver in branch annually: and warehouse visits standard=2 visits to either afternoon or midnight shift per 4-week period

Coordinates activities associated with payroll, unemployment, workers compensation, disability and other personnel related matters. Budgets for and develops action plans to achieve budgeted cost controls and profitability goals. Monitors daily, weekly and period-end sales and cost control figures

Maximizes truck and labor potential by establishing routes to maintain proper truck utilization and meeting goal for cubes per truck and average load weight. Maintains ideal restaurant processing time. Schedule’s drivers and warehouse personnel according to set labor hours prescribed

Maintains work environment that is safe, secure and in compliance with government laws, DOT, FDA, OSHA and company policies. Ensures compliance and use of XATA computer hardware. Ensures all accident report procedures are properly followed. Obtains an excellent rating (3 Star Award Standard 4/ Star Award Goal) from Quality Assurance department and the American Institute of Baking (AIB) for the branch standard=excellent rating; goal=superior rating

Qualification

Logistics managementDOT complianceFDA complianceOSHA complianceFood service distributionBudget managementStaff trainingCommunicationLeadership skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Business Administration, or related degree with minimum of five (5) years manager-level experience within the transportation/warehouse industry, or equivalent of 8 years managerial experience

Possesses a strong understanding of DOT, FDA, OSHA, and CSA compliance requirements, company policies and all national and state regulations and the ability to enforce them

Four years of experience in food service distribution industry

Excellent communications skills, the ability to lead and motivate colleagues

Prior experience forecasting and managing operating budgets as well as communicating variance

Company

Ilitch Companies

The Ilitch Companies' family of businesses represent leading brands in the food, sports and entertainment industries, including Little Caesars, Blue Line Distribution, the Detroit Red Wings, Olympia Entertainment, the Detroit Tigers, Olympia Development, Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraising Program, Champion Foods, MotorCity Casino Hotel, Ocean Casino Resort, and Tenda.

Founded in 1999

Detroit, Michigan, USA

10001+ employees