Operations Manager - B Shift - Cedar Rapids Fulfillment Center

Nordstrom Nordstrom · Retail · Cedar Rapids, IA

Operations Manager role at Nordstrom's fulfillment center, focusing on leading teams, driving operational performance, managing budgets, and ensuring safety and quality. Requires significant warehouse management experience and leadership skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the business strategy or driving results for overall safety, quality and performance
  2. Lead, develop, and grow the performance of a team of about 20 employees
  3. Recruiting, selecting, onboarding, and training the right resources
  4. Drive warehouse associates results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and provides feedback on job performance
  5. Own process improvement efforts through problem-solving, project management, and continuous improvement methodologies

Skills

Required

  • Warehouse management
  • Team leadership
  • Performance management
  • Budget management
  • Process improvement
  • Data analysis
  • Warehouse management software

Nice to have

  • Continuous improvement methodologies
  • 4DX
  • Facility performance scorecards

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of warehouse experience in a managerial role
  • Proven capability in identifying and implementing CI actions that deliver measurable improvements to cost, service and quality
  • Demonstrated capabilities in developing others and growing leadership competencies in their direct reports
  • Strong knowledge of warehousing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Hands on experience with warehouse management software and databases
  • Ability to analyze data and determine actions based on improvement opportunities