Manager Distribution Center - Advanced Drainage Systems

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.  For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials.  Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers. 

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

• Strategic Mindset – anticipates future trends and implications accurately
• Decision Quality – relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions
• Customer Focus – identifies opportunities that benefit the business
• Business Insight – keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace
• Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions
• Optimizes Work Processes – seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering
• Ensures Accountability – establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results
• Collaborates – works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives
• Develops Talent – develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments
• Builds Effective Teams – forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience
• Drives Vision and Purpose – talks about future possibilities in a positive way
• Courage – faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

The Distribution Center (DC) Manager reports directly to the Regional Distribution Center Manager. The DC Manager is responsible for all daily activities within the Distribution Center.  The DC Manager shall also be responsible for all department personnel.  This position reports directly to the Regional Distribution Center Manager and requires the flexibility to work weekends.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

•  Understand and use as guidance the ADS core values
• Communicating with freight common carriers
• Maintain metro market same day, next day service
• Loading and unloading of all trucks
• Communication with other ADS facilities,sales and corporate personnel
• Organizing daily loading sequence
• Ensuring payload efficiencies
• Customer order management
• Conducting and leading month end cycle-counts as well as fiscal year end counts
• RMA and B/O management
• Releasing and confirming customer orders
• Proper maintenance of files for entire D.C.
• Ensuring company policy compliance
• Facilitating meetings/communication
• Management of yard organization & layout
• Management of product rotation
• Facilitation of Loader Cert. Program & training
• Assistance with CPU’s as required
• Maintain yard vehicle maintenance schedule and files
• Manage and meet annual budgets
• Maintain safety culture, including training, documentation and ensure compliance

Job Skills:

This position should possess the following skills/knowledge:

• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Mathematics skills
• Basic computer skills
• Oracle Order functions
• Oracle Inventory functions
• Inventory management
• Freight management
• ADS product knowledge

Physical Requirements:

• The employee will be required for a specified time and must be able to work either days or nights.
• Must be able to perform the frequent pulling or rolling of freight weighing up to and/or creating a resistance force of more than 100 lbs, as well as the occasional pulling or rolling of freight weighing up to and/or creating a resistance force of more than 200 lbs with or without mechanical aid
• The employee will be using the same motions throughout the day and must be able to perform repetitive motion to include arms, legs and feet
• Must be able to perform the frequentcarrying of freight weighing up to 75 lbs of varying shapes and sizes a distance of  20 feet but usually no more that 50 feet
• Must be able to perform frequent squatting to handle, position and secure freight
• Must be able to frequently reach for freight at waist level and frequently reach for freight above shoulder height or below waist level
• Must be able to occasionally reach above shoulder level, at waist level, and below waist level for maneuvering and directing the controls to operate a fork-lift.
• Must be able to frequently load and unload full or partial trailer loads of finished goods, raw materials and/or tooling.  This could involve either the mechanical release or assisted pushing of product and materials that could weigh in excess of 800 lbs.
• Must be able to enter and exit the vehicle’s (fork-lift)cab as many as 45 times per day or more.  Cab floor levels are generally from 36 to 66 inches above ground level, with entry and exit achieved with the assistance of various configurations of steps and handholds; also requires frequent bending, twisting, climbing, squatting, crouching and balancing
• Must be able to spend at least 30% of the day standing and 30% of the day walking on surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, wood, metal, loose or packed dirt and sometimes slippery, wet and uneven surfaces
• Must be able to perform the frequent pushing or rolling of freight weighing up to and/or creating a resistance force of more than 100 lbs, as well as the occasional pushing or rolling of freight weighing up to and/or creating a resistance force of more than 200 lbs with or without mechanical aid
• Must be able to hook/unhook various commercial vehicle combinations, manually lower and raise landing gear, operate fifth-wheel release lever, lock and release load securement straps, open and close cargo doors, climb into and out of vehicles, fuel vehicles and check engine and coolant levels

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.