Operations Manager - Distribution Center

Leading teams in a distribution center delivers on customer promises through coaching, performance monitoring, and process enhancements for safe, quality operations. This seasoned role implements corrective actions on budgets and oversees recruitment to drive warehouse efficiency. It achieves financial targets while promoting continuous improvement in logistics.

Nordstrom operates a distribution center focused on timely merchandise delivery, investing in employee development and diverse teams. The company emphasizes inclusive workplaces and benefits across retail segments. It supports career growth through workshops and networks for sustained performance.

Responsibilities involve supporting business strategies for overall results, developing team competencies in about 20 employees through recruiting, onboarding, training, and feedback on performance, driving key performance indicators via coaching and discipline, owning process improvements through problem-solving and methodologies like 4DX, meeting financial standards by monitoring expenditures and variances, analyzing data for actionable changes, and using warehouse management software and databases. Interacts with direct reports for motivation, clients for professional relations, and peers for project coordination. Challenges include meeting scorecards in a fast-paced warehouse environment with analytical demands.

Annual pay ranges from $59,000 to $98,000, with shift B: Monday to Friday, 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm, full-time at Dubuque Distribution Center. Benefits include medical, vision, dental insurance, retirement plans, paid time away, life and disability insurance, merchandise discounts, EAP resources, and performance-based incentives. Eligibility depends on location and employment length, fostering long-term career advancement.