Scalisi Produce is hiring a Night Warehouse Manager to join our team in West Palm Beach, FL (about 45 miles north of Fort Lauderdale). In this role you will lead our overnight warehouse operation, from order picking and staging through truck loading and shipping. You will manage supervisors and warehouse teams, coordinate departmental workloads, and ensure customer orders leave accurately and on schedule.
Jack Scalisi Wholesale Fruit & Produce is a fresh produce distributor operating a high-volume warehouse. Our team handles, prepares, and ships fresh fruits and vegetables, supporting the agriculture and food supply chain. Careful product handling, food safety, and dependable order fulfillment are central to our daily operations.
We offer competitive compensation based on experience, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401(k) retirement options, paid vacation after 1 year of employment, and much more.
Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Labor Management
- Lead warehouse supervisors, department leaders, bullpen coordinators, and designated personnel; oversee order pullers and loaders through the appropriate leadership structure.
- Conduct shift start-up meetings to communicate order volume, staffing assignments, special orders, deadlines, and operational concerns.
- Set clear expectations for attendance, productivity, conduct, and department performance. Coach supervisors, address employee concerns, and coordinate corrective action when needed.
Order Fulfillment and Fresh Produce Quality
- Oversee accurate, timely order picking across warehouse departments, following customer specifications and established procedures.
- Monitor workflow and resolve bottlenecks, recurring picking errors, shortages, and priority or late orders.
- Evaluate produce for freshness, ripeness, defects, and spoilage. Maintain proper handling, storage, and product rotation to minimize damage, waste, and shrink.
Staging and Truck Loading
- Manage bullpen staging so completed orders are organized, clearly identified, and assigned to the correct route and truck.
- Coordinate order movement between picking areas, staging locations, and loading teams to prevent congestion and unnecessary handling.
Piece Room Coordination
- Collaborate with the Piece Room Manager to ensure individual-item and special orders are prepared accurately and meet shipping deadlines.
- Monitor product quality, handling, cleanliness, waste, and food safety practices; help identify improvements to staffing and workflow.
Safety and Facility Oversight
- Enforce warehouse safety, food safety, sanitation, and storage procedures. Ensure equipment is operated only by trained, authorized employees.
- Conduct warehouse walkthroughs to check cleanliness, accessible aisles and exits, equipment condition, and safe work practices.
Performance and Communication
- Track order accuracy, throughput, labor utilization, shrink, and on-time departures. Review results with supervisors and implement corrective actions.
- Improve procedures and departmental coordination to increase efficiency without compromising product quality or employee and food safety.
- Document significant staffing, product, equipment, and safety issues. Provide clear shift handoffs and escalate unresolved concerns to management
Qualifications:
- Previous warehouse management experience in distribution, logistics, or a related field required. Relevant backgrounds may include agriculture, food processing, or food packaging operations.
- Fresh produce, food distribution, or refrigerated warehouse experience required, including knowledge of produce quality and proper handling.
- Experience managing supervisors, department leaders, and large hourly teams across multiple departments in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment.
- Working knowledge of order fulfillment, receiving, inventory control, staging, shipping, truck loading, warehouse safety, and sanitation.
- Experience managing staffing, labor costs, overtime, and operational performance metrics.
- Strong leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands and make decisions under pressure.
- Basic computer skills and the ability to learn warehouse management and inventory systems.
- Ability to work overnight in a refrigerated warehouse and stand, walk, and bend for extended periods. Flexibility to work extended hours, weekends, and holidays as needed.