Job Description
Position Summary:
The Distribution Center Advisor (DC Advisor) leads the day-to-day operations for a specific department for a shift within the AutoZone Distribution Center. The DC Advisor assists the DC Operations Manager with leading company initiatives and ensuring maximum productivity, training and retaining high performing AutoZoners in a safe environment, while controlling expenses and shrink, and remaining compliant with company procedures in accordance with AutoZone's expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manages a team of up to 40 AutoZoners and demonstrates excellent communication, inclusiveness, and collaboration skills
- Leads, directs, and motivates AutoZoners to ensure that work is completed and orders are processed to exceed customer's expectations
- Manages daily and weekly labor cost and monitors daily payroll to ensure compliance with the DC attendance policy
- Provides direction and coaching to minimize operational costs and maximize operational quality
- Monitors work processes and makes suggestions for modifications in order to increase and improve productivity, efficiency, and accuracy for the purpose of improving costs; implements changes as directed
- Ensures KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) are met pertaining to safety, on-time delivery, inventory management, order fill rates and operational costs
- Ensures timely receiving, stocking, replenishment, selection and shipping of merchandise
- Maintains compliance with established policies, procedures and legal requirements; and ensures all company policies and loss prevention procedures are followed
- Maintains a safe working environment while ensuring AutoZoners are implementing those practices including PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
- Operate Powered Industrial Equipment (PIE) as needed
- Work in a Safety Sensitive environment
- Other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Education and/or Experience:
Required:
High school diploma or GED
- Understand the demands of a fast paced work environment involving receiving, stocking, inbound, outbound, replenishment, returns/recalls, etc.
- Must be flexible for shift schedule
Preferred:
- 3 to 5 years of Distribution/ warehouse experience
- 1+ years of supervisory experience
- Experience operating Powered Industrial Equipment (PIE)
Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
Work Environment:
Factor
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Description
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Primary Work Site
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Temperature
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- Controlled indoors, typical of a warehouse environment
- Varied outdoors
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Noise
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- Powered Industrial Equipment and tools, Fans and Cooling Systems, horns and paging systems
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Hazards
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- Should be aware of box cutter, ladders, Powered Industrial Equipment, and some chemical exposure (ex: batteries, coolant, oil, washer fluid, brake fluid, etc.)
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Air Quality
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- Overall good; some gasses, fumes and dust present
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Work Surface
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- Flat, even, hard, inclines and ramps, ladders and stairs, catwalks/scaffolds, parking lot
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People
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- Exposure to a variety of employees within designated departments
- Exposure to varied customers and vendors in a distribution environment
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Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. while pushing, pulling, lifting, bending and stooping and using lifting techniques and move loads
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work extended shifts
- Constantly required to stand, walk, climb stairs, reach, kneel, crouch or crawl
- Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust and focus
- Ability to hear safety horns, PIE horns, pre-shift announcements/safety messages and pages
- Ability to work in a Safety Sensitive environment (operation of PIE / heavy PIE traffic throughout the distribution center); moving conveyors, heights; maintain awareness of surroundings at all times and quick reaction time to hazardous conditions are necessary
Posting ID: 582948009Posted: 2021-01-17