Warehouse Supervisor

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**Warehouse Supervisor**

This very interesting position is located in Sydney and reports to Financial Controller

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**
- This role is an important part of the Supply Chain process and supports the mission by ensuring the Sydney Warehouse:

- Delivers world-class performance in safety, quality, delivery, inventory and productivity
- Processes are continuously improved through the utilisation of the Danaher Business tools
- Support the Customer base through ensuring accurate and on-time deliveries of all purchased goods.
- Support the Field Service team by ensuring they have the right spare parts, when and as needed.
- Support the Sales team through coordinating accurate, on-time deliveries to and from customer sites.
- Support business objectives through careful management of inventory levels and expenses related to warehouse and freight.

**Regular contact includes**:
External: Customers, Service & Sales agents, 3rd party suppliers, Freight companies and external Auditors.

Internal: Service Engineers, Service Admin team, Sales & Applications teams, Customer Service team, Finance team, Leica BUs, Internal Auditors.

**Position Accountabilities**

**Standards/Measures**

**Safety, Environment and Quality**

Actively engaged in ensuring a safe working environment.

Timely treatment and reporting of any safety incidents.

No safety violations

Zero medical treatments

Zero Lost Time injuries

< 1 hour to report any incident

**Compliance**

Timely completions of Compliance Training for self and direct reports

Regular compliance monitoring of direct reports

Successful pass of all Audits

Maintain servicing of warehouse tools and equipment, as required.

**Operational**

Utilisation & efficiency of resources

Stock Accuracy

Order Pickings

Despatch

Receiving

Regulatory Compliance

Cycle counts and stocktakes

Greater than 90%.

Net variance < 2% by value, all locations.

Sales orders and Stock Transfer Requests picked, packed & shipped by required date & 100% accurate

All goods transacted & shelved within 4 hours of receipt

Zero non-conformance issues

Meet FDA/ISO requirements

Cycle Counts carried out weekly

All discrepancies checked and verified

**Continuous Improvement / DBS**

Embrace the Danaher requirement for continuous improvement

Maintain 5S practices in warehouse

Recommend continuous improvement initiatives - min 1 / year

**OUR EXPECTATIONS**
- Experienced supervisor with a proven track-record in driving sustainable business improvement through teamwork.
- Proven Warehouse Management experience.
- Strong systems thinker with demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to achieving results in a team based environment.
- Forklift license mandatory.
- Material Handling Training.
- Knowledge of Import/ Export rules and requirements.
- Ability to multi-task.
- High sense of urgency.

**HIGHLY DESIRABLE**
- Track record of driving organisational change in line with business needs.
- SAP experience.
- Certificate 4 in Warehousing and Distribution.
- Experience with managing inventory levels.
- Freight management.
- Dangerous Goods Handling license, Air and Sea.
- Experience with Cycle Counting.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

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When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful **Danaher Business System** tools and the stability of a tested organization.

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