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SalaryAbout Zep Inc.
Zep Inc. is a leading manufacturer of cleaning solutions for businesses and consumers with operations across the U.S, Canada, and Europe. Our purpose is to make the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive. To fulfill our purpose, we focus on understanding and solving cleaning needs for consumers, as well as business customers across a variety of segments including transportation, industrial, institutional, and food & beverage. We also have a strong presence in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) segment, where we develop products to help consumers and businesses maintain a clean and safe environment. Our products can be found online and at retail shelves at outlets like Home Depot, Amazon, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Grainger, HD Supply, Walmart, and many others. We market our products under well recognized and established brand names, such as Zep®, Enforcer®, Misty®, TimeMist®, TimeWick, and Country Vet®. Zep was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. In 2021, Zep became the official cleaning partner of Atlanta United FC.
Job Description:
The Distribution Manager III role will be Responsible for all floor operations (or part thereof) based on the size of the facility. Duties include management of compliance programs, shipping and receiving operations, metrics, yard management, annual improvement projects as well as people management. Associate should regularly benchmark their team and work towards best-in-class operational effectiveness. Associate also responsible for maintaining current standard work documentation. This role is currently only available at our Allentown, PA facility.
Primary Accountabilities:
- Lead/direct all floor operations as well as usage and development of team lead(s). Responsible for managing open deliveries/receipts, reporting current status, driving operational effectiveness, annual operational projects driving positive cash and/or productivity gains. Evaluates the effectiveness of and recommends alternatives for work standards, procedures, controls and staffing to achieve accurate and timely movement, processing, and invoicing of product.
- Provide support/leadership for the overall facility. This includes labor sharing, project work in other areas, preparation, and participation in staff meetings as well as consistency in all compliance areas. To include assignments/projects out of functional area. Owning the entire facility.
- Conduct regular team meetings with direct staff as well as developmental meetings with leads/supervisors. Review of metrics including counseling and/or discipline based on productivity. Ensures optimal performance KPI’s and metrics are achieved. Coaches, trains, and develops Associates informally and through formal training programs, providing both informal (e.g. on-floor coaching) and formal (e.g. written evaluation) job performance based feedback. Responsible for associate recruitment and termination.
- Provide forward communication to other functional areas including customer service, sales, manufacturing, quality, EH&S, corporate staff and/or suppliers with information pertinent to the operation. Manage within Workday, SAP, Compliance drive and quality reporting systems. Daily reporting and metrics pushed to their leader.
Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree (BA or BS) or equivalent.
- 3-5 years of experience in Logistics or Warehouse
- Working knowledge and understanding of SAP. Microsoft Office, and WM
- Leadership training, management, and facility compliance experience preferred.
Our Values
At Zep, we have developed a set of values focused on bringing even greater cohesion to our workplace. As part of this plan, we introduced a values framework called S.P.E.E.D. to align with our purpose of making the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive.
- Stewardship: We continuously improve the safety of our people and products, and we protect the planet by innovating solutions to reduce our environmental impact.
- Passion for Problem Solving: We listen to our customers and actively work to find solutions for unique situations. We think creatively to innovate and seize opportunities that will drive growth and make all our customers’ and consumers’ lives better.
- Empowerment: We encourage and lead our people to be accountable by equipping them to make decisions and own the outcome
- Expertise: We create innovative solutions and partnerships that are relevant to service our communities and customers.
- Doing the Right Thing: We expect our people to understand ethical boundaries and be inclusive of other backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives. Demonstrating honesty, respect and integrity in all actions is always expected.
Zep Inc. is an organization that is committed to diversity within its workforce and encourages all interested candidates, including women, minorities, & former military personnel to apply. It is the policy of Zep Inc. that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.
As an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, Zep Inc. provides full employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, ancestry, or veteran status or any other distinction outlined in all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
