Careers at Wayland Industries
Warehouse Manager
The Warehouse Manager leads day-to-day operations at Wayland’s Cudahy warehouse. This hands-on leader keeps orders accurate and on time, develops the local team, maintains safe operations, and improves workflows. The role reports to the CEO/Co-Founder and currently supervises approximately 5–10 Cudahy team members.
What you’ll do
- Coach, schedule, cross-train, and develop the warehouse team while setting daily priorities.
- Oversee receiving, putaway, picking, checking, packing, and shipping; adjust staffing and workflow to meet order cutoffs.
- Maintain inventory accuracy through location discipline, cycle counts, discrepancy investigations, and timely ERP transactions.
- Check order and shipping accuracy, resolve errors, and improve the process behind them.
- Enforce equipment inspections, forklift practices, training, and housekeeping standards.
- Coordinate product inspections with quality and purchasing teams and escalate nonconforming materials.
- Manage outbound freight, including carrier and broker performance, rate quotes, service issues, and cost opportunities.
- Work with leaders in Los Angeles and Atlanta to document shared procedures and reporting.
- Track order accuracy, on-time shipping, inventory accuracy, safety, and freight cost while helping on the floor as needed.
What we’re looking for
- 5 or more years in warehouse or distribution operations, including at least 3 years leading a team.
- Working knowledge of receiving, inventory control, cycle counts, fulfillment, carrier coordination, and warehouse safety.
- Comfort with ERP or warehouse systems and Excel or similar reporting tools.
- Experience operating forklifts and order pickers, or the ability to become trained and authorized.
- Ability to assist with material handling and meet the physical demands of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Experience distributing pipe, valves, fittings, or other industrial products is a plus.
Benefits & Perks
- Health insurance benefits
- 401(k) contributions
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Profit-sharing opportunities
