Joining King’s Hawaiian makes you part of our `ohana (family). We are a family-owned business for over seventy years, respecting our roots while thinking about our future as we continue to grow and care for our customers and the communities we serve. Our `ohana members build an environment of inclusivity as they freely collaborate, pursue learning through curiosity, and explore innovation as critical thinkers. Beyond that, we are also passionate about supporting the long-term health and well-being of our employees and their families. If you’re excited to rise with our team, come and join our `ohana!

Reporting to the Warehouse Supervisor, the Warehouse Foreman will be responsible for leading, supporting, and directing the receiving, shipping, and material handling operations at the King’s Hawaiian Bakery manufacturing facility. Other duties include serving as the Warehouse Shipper 1 or Shipper 2 while demonstrating the ability to perform analytical thinking to solve complex situations while ensuring optimal shipping of products and timely delivery of all customer orders.

 

• Job Requirements:

  Maintain warehouse operations by supporting, coordinating, and enforcing programs, policies, and procedures to ensure product availability and excellent customer service.  Support and ensure compliance with all employee quality programs including HACCP and SQF requirements, continuous improvement initiatives and food safety programs.

• - Assist in coordinating the outbound shipping schedule and allocation to storage facilities and customers; maintain and support a good working relationship with internal and external customers, as well as the supply chain, production schedulers, and the transportation team.
• Achieve operational objectives (meeting plant, departmental, quality, safety, productivity, customer service, and individual goals) by identifying obstacles, gathering information, recognizing and/or supporting possible solutions, developing and executing action plans, and reviewing execution to ensure sustained success.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing safety standards and procedures by working with the Warehouse supervisor in conducting weekly safety meetings, audits, and following up that work orders for any safety related items as needed have been entered by the Warehouse Supervisor.
• - Support and aide warehouse management to meet financial objectives by evaluating and implementing   initiatives to decrease costs while maintaining/increasing service levels.
• - Develop warehouse operations systems by developing processes for shipping and receiving, equipment, and storage utilization by analyzing process workflow, labor, space requirements, and equipment layout.
• - Aid in the weekly warehouse cycle count of all raw, and package materials reporting any shortage or overage of inventory to the Cycle Counter and Warehouse Material Manager.
• - Ensure finished goods inventory are shipped, placed on hold, or damaged for lot tracking.
• -The responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs.  More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.

• Responsibilities:

  Responsibilities include leading the shipping and receiving personnel as well as planning, assigning, directing work, providing necessary training and to provide feedback to the Warehouse Supervisor when meeting monthly with direct reports to evaluate performance, set goals and monitor progress toward goals and provide ongoing feedback in a timely manner. Other responsibilities include succession planning within the department, developing employee skills and experiences, addressing complaints, and resolving personnel issues

  Qualifications:

  To perform this job efficiently, an individual needs to perform each duty satisfactory. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. This individual must be safety conscious. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

  Skills/Experience:

  ·         - High School diploma or equivalent is preferred. Combination of education, training, and experience.

  ·         - Minimum of one-year manufacturing experience.

  ·         - Shipping and receiving experience preferred

  ·         - SAP experience preferred

  ·         - Food manufacturing experience preferred

  ·         - Excellent communication, organizational, presentation, and negotiation skills

  ·          - Key leadership competencies in addition to Ethics/Values and Integrity/Trust, (Proactive, Directing Others, Priority Setting, Decision quality, Organizing, Process Management)

  ·         - Computer proficiency in Word, and Excel

  Language Skills:

  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, SOPs, quality, and warehouse procedures or manuals written in English. Ability to write routine reports and correspond in English. Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees. Spanish comprehension is a plus.

  Mathematical Skills:

  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

  Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

  Forklift driver certification a plus (Company will provide periodic recertification training).  

  CDL licenses a plus

  Physical Demands:

  The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, handle, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Will require use of equipment, small portable equipment, and manual tools. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds seeking help when job requires more than 50 pounds with assistance from co-worker and/or mechanical devices. Duties may require occasional operation of a motor vehicle or travel on behalf of the company.   

  Work Environment: 

  The work environment and physical demands described above may be representative of those required by an employee to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.

 

King's Hawaiian is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our ohana.