Supervisor, Warehouse

Curia provides global contract research and manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Join our talented workforce, where a commitment to excellence and a customer focused attitude is everything. We pursue excellence because our work has the power to improve patients’ lives with the pharmaceuticals we develop and manufacture. 

We proudly offer

Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)  Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment) Career advancement opportunities  Education reimbursement 401k program Learning platform And more! 

The Warehouse Supervisor provides oversight and direction for all warehouse activities and functions.  This position must remain cognizant of production priorities and daily activities necessary to support the production schedule. The role is responsible for inventory control and ensuring an adequate supply of raw materials are on hand for production requirements. 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Essential functional duties of the position

Provide day-to-day supervision of Warehouse and bulk material loading/unloading operations and employees.  Assure DOT, IATA, cGMP, ESHA and other applicable regulatory compliance for all warehouse operations and shipment of materials, products and samples. Establish shipping arrangements for products. Schedule bookings and coordinate preparation and execution of all shipments in order to meet necessary schedules, applicable regulations and specific customer requirements.  Prepare shipping paperwork and transmittal of Certificates of Analysis and notification to specified customer contacts. Coordinate packaging and shipment of DEA controlled substance materials including samples and finished products. Requisition incoming deliveries and supervise physical receipt of materials, electronic receipt in SAP, and internal distribution of received materials to meet the manufacturing schedule. Coordinate packaging and shipment of hazardous materials including samples and finished products. Specify, order, and maintain appropriate inventory of packaging materials and warehouse consumable supplies. Conduct physical inventory for finished products, intermediates, raw materials, packaging materials, and reconcile differences in computerized inventory system. Responsible for Warehouse department budget and budget forecasting Use computer skills and knowledge of chemical process manufacturing to track production data.  (Computer skills will include at a minimum spreadsheets, word processing, SAP, MRP, ADP, etc.) Plan daily activities to meet monthly and yearly production goals, communicate plan to all shifts, and review progress against the plan.  Identify process bottlenecks and implement process improvements to improve throughput and/or reduce production costs. Know, understand, and enforce process safety, environmental, and cGMP procedures for plant operations. Keep departmental Manager informed of operational, shipping, or scheduling problems. Receive returned goods and initiate investigation process. Conduct DOT training for site employees as needed to assure compliance and continuous improvement activities.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

The following knowledge and proficiency skills are required for this position to be acquired through a minimum of a high school diploma (some college preferred) and a least 5 years of relative experience warehousing functions. Preferred experience in FDA, DOT, EPA, and OSHA regulated chemical manufacturing. 

Good written and verbal communication skills, along with team oriented management skills. 

The ability to properly prioritize simultaneous events.

Previous experience and skills utilizing SAP are preferred. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  Occasionally the employee must reach with hands and arms above shoulder height, climb, or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.   Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work in a manufacturing office environment and is regularly required to enter the production area of a typical manufacturing facility which has moving mechanical parts, and may have fumes or airborne particles, extreme heat, wet and /or humid conditions, low levels of toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions.  The noise level in the environment is usually moderate.

Job descriptions are not intended, and should not be construed, to be exhaustive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with a job:  They are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making fair pay decisions about jobs.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.

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