Supervisor, Plant Warehouse Job at Ball Corporation

Ball Corporation Kent, WA 98032

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging and aerospace solutions. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

We have a Plant Warehouse Supervisor for our Kent, WA location. As the Plant Warehouse Supervisor, you will provide leadership and supervision to the plant warehouse personnel and maintain direct support to all departments in the plant via material handling.


The Warehouse Supervisor role will work primarily standard Monday-Friday dayshift, but will be on-call and expected to be flexible to support employees in our 24/7 work environment.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish and maintain an employee relations climate of trust and confidence that will promote achievement of plant and company goals.
  • Facilitate training for direct reports; including administering forklift training and orientation to Ball employees and contingent workers.
  • Ensures good organization in the plant warehouse, external warehouses and related areas in order to maintain a safe and secure work environment, including that all warehouse equipment and forklifts are properly maintained. Correct unsafe conditions/acts, facilitate routine safety meetings, conduct routine safety inspections and investigate accidents.
  • Monitor and ensure accuracy of all warehouse hourly labor timekeeping, data entry, including overtime schedules, if applicable.
  • Provide work direction to shipping coordinator and facilitate the transportation of inbound and outbound shipments of products and materials including finished product and scrap, including yard management.
  • Communicate with customers, outside warehouses and freight carriers to respond to customer orders, requests for information, quality or delivery issues, operational audits and regular engagement meetings.
  • Provide guidance on JDE system set-up or issues and storage of finished goods, including ownership of Transportation Management System.
  • Review, complete, and ensure accuracy of warehouse related documents and shipments; maintain and reports on inventory accuracy, aging, HFI, status of finished goods, as well as packaging, dunnage, and raw materials of the plant and external warehouse.
  • Provide backup for positions that may include production control, graphics and/or order fulfillment.
  • Establish and maintain effective and positive work relationships with across the plant, the company and with our customers.


Basic Qualifications:

  • HS Diploma/Equivalency required.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in a people leader role (such as: team leader, supervisor, etc.) in a warehouse, industrial or manufacturing environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple demands efficiently and effectively.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate (verbal and written) in a clear, concise and tactful manner to all levels of personnel.
  • Proficiency with standard office software (such as MS Office Suite: Excel, Word, Outlook).


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Higher education in supply chain, logistics, or management related disciplines.
  • Experience using ERP software (such as JD Edwards, SAP, etc.).
  • Experience driving a forklift.
  • Inventory control experience
  • Mechanical aptitude and ability to troubleshoot minor issues with warehouse equipment or forklifts.
  • 5 or more years of people leadership experience, including team building, mentorship and development of employees.
  • Experience creating presentations presenting to plant and company leadership.
  • Experience creating and implementing process improvements (focused on inventory management, highly preferred).

Compensation & Benefits


  • Hiring Salary Range: $70,800-$113,600 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
  • [This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.]
  • Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.


Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.


When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.


Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.


Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference


Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.


No agencies please.




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