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This position reports to:
Assistant General Manager
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Your role and responsibilities
The Senior Supervisor leads safe, efficient, and customer focus operations for an assigned shift or functional area. This role coordinates daily workflow, directs frontline leaders and hourly associates, manages labor and operating priorities, and ensures that product is received, stored, picked and packed and shipped accurately and on time. The Senior Supervisor also serves as a key escalation point, uses performance data to address gaps, and partners across functions to improve service, cost, quality, inventory accuracy, and employee engagement.
The work model for the role is: Onsite
This role is contributing to the {Byhalia Distribution Center) in {ELIP US LATAM}.
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Lead daily operations for assigned inbound, outbound, inventory control, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, or value-added service activities.
- Direct and coach supervisors, team leads, and associates; establish clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and reinforce accountability for results and behaviors.
- Monitor safety, service, productivity, quality, cost, inventory, and attendance metrics throughout the shift; take timely corrective action when performance is off plan.
- Conduct shift start-up meetings, operational reviews, and handoffs that communicate safety priorities, workload, staffing, risks, and required actions.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, standard operating procedures, quality requirements, security controls, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
- Promote a strong safety culture by completing observations, addressing hazards, supporting incident investigations, and ensuring corrective actions are completed.
- Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives that simplify work, reduce waste, improve throughput, control overtime, and strengthen the employee and customer experience.
- Support system, equipment, process, layout, and network changes; communicate the business rationale, assess readiness, and reinforce adoption.
- Develop bench strength through cross-training, succession planning, talent reviews, and development plans for supervisors and emerging leaders.
- Serve as the senior operational leader on the assigned shift when designated and coordinate response to urgent safety, staffing, equipment, system, or service issues.
- Prepare and present concise performance updates, root-cause findings, recovery plans, and improvement recommendations to site leadership.
Required Qualifications:
- Eight or more years of progressive experience in distribution, fulfillment, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, or a related operations environment.
- Three or more years of experience leading employees in a high-volume operation, including responsibility for staffing, performance, safety, and results.
- Ability to work second shift (4:00 PM - 12:30 AM or 3:30 PM - 12:00 AM).
- Demonstrated ability to lead through frontline supervisors or team leads and coordinate work across multiple operational functions.
- Working knowledge of warehouse management systems, labor or productivity reporting, inventory controls, and standard office applications.
- Strong communication skills (oral and written).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, operations management, or a related field.
- Experience in a multi-shift, high-volume, automated, or regulated distribution environment.
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or structured problem-solving methods.
- Experience supporting change initiatives, start-ups, expansions, system implementations, or process redesign.
- Training or certification in occupational safety, powered industrial trucks, quality, or logistics operations.
- Experience using a Warehouse Management System (WMS).
- Preferred exposure to Blue Yonder or Manhattan.
What's in it for you?
We empower you to take the lead, share bold ideas, and shape real outcomes. You’ll grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and learning that fits your goals. Here, your work doesn’t just matter, it moves things forward
ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees
[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on “Candidate/Guest” to learn more
Health, Life & Disability
- Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
- Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
- ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
- Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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