Storage and Distribution Managers

Tasks Include:

• Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
• Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
• Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
• Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
• Prepare or direct preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals.
• Issue shipping instructions and provide routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.
• Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, or purchasing.
• Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments.
• Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.

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