DC Manager

Elite Comfort Solutions, a Leggett & Platt Company, is comprised of hardworking individuals dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality foam products for the bedding and furniture markets and beyond.  With locations around the globe, we offer a world of opportunities in areas such as business, information technology, and manufacturing.

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

Bedding

The world leader in bedding technology.

Leggett & Platt has been the driving force in bedding components technology since inventing the bedspring in 1885. Now, we own more mattress industry patents than anyone in the world.

Springs, foam, adjustable beds, machinery – our Bedding businesses design, produce, and supply innovative sleep solutions that help you rest comfortably.

Learn more about Bedding Components: L&P Bedding Group

Salary: $86,625 - $115,500

Job Title: DC Manager

Position Classification: Salaried - Exempt

Job Summary:  The Distribution Center Manager plans, directs and coordinates the operations of a specific location in the organization. Manages utilization of equipment, facility, and personnel to obtain maximum efficiency and meet performance objectives. Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources is needed.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Education & Experience: Must be at least 18 years of age to perform this job. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Handle all financial elements for the facility, including labor, material and overhead

• Prepare and deliver an accurate yearly budget and review and report on monthly
• Oversee all personnel actions and ensure they are handled in accordance with policy

• Monitor all internal systems for accuracy and compliance with company rules, standards, expectations, and applicable laws.
• Plans and schedules facility assignments, and sets priorities
• Identifies opportunities that best utilize the location’s infrastructure and meet customer requirements
• Supports Sales and cross-functional teams to proactively develop product and service solutions
• Prepares budgets for approval, including those for funding and implementation of programs
• Resolves problems by adjusting priorities, schedules and reassignment of workforce when necessary
• Control obsolete and excess inventory, provide inventory models to maintain inventory effectively and accurately
• Monitors corrective actions to ensure the location is improving efficiency, service, profits by analyzing and enhancing those actions
• Confirms the location is meeting contractual obligations to the customer
• Ensures sufficient capacity is available within the location to carry out the objectives and delivery of products
• Review of all internal and external reporting
• Direct and coordinates the location’s financial and budget activities in order to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase efficiency
• Analyzes technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects
• Analyzes operations to evaluate performance of the location(s) and its staff in meeting objectives, and to determine areas of potential cost reduction or program improvement
• Approves and monitors work completion and performance by contractors
• Participates and encourages participation in the Continuous Quality Improvement process
• Knows and understands all company policies
• Motivates, outlines and delegates methods to surpass all company goals
• Ensure high safety standards are implemented and followed throughout the operation

Education:

• Education and/or experience equivalent to Management level of Plant Operations

Experience:

• Equivalent to 10 years increasingly responsible experience in all aspects of distribution facility management and light manufacturing required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, and the analysis and reporting of financial data
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes assessment of customer needs, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
• Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products
• Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions
• Possess skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
• Possess the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Able to monitor/ assess performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
• Identifies complex problems and reviews related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Good oral comprehension and expression, able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences and the ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
• Possess deductive reasoning, able to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
• Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
• Above average ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly
• Have an above average ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem

• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.

• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; maintains a clean and organized work environment.
• Quantity - Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strives to increase productivity.
• Safety - Observes all safety procedures and policies; Reports potentially unsafe conditions to supervisor; Uses equipment and materials properly.
• Good attention to detail.
• Able to work accurately from verbal and written instructions.
• Possess a sense of urgency on decision making

Other Work Activities Include:

• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Getting Information, Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Developing Objectives and Strategies
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
• Communicating with Persons Outside the Division; Developing and Building Teams
• Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
• Selling or Influencing Others
• Analyzing Data or Information

This description is a general statement of required major duties and responsibilities performed on a regular and continual basis. It does not exclude other duties that may be assigned.

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