Operations team leader

Operations Team Leader

Function Purpose: Responsible for overseeing warehouse operations, inventory management, facilities, and employee supervision across multiple warehouse locations. This position serves as the formal people leader for warehouse personnel while maintaining an active, hands-on role in daily warehouse operations. Provides leadership, coaching, operational direction, and direct support to ensure safe, efficient, and accurate execution of warehouse activities across Yuma, AZ and Salinas, CA.

Main Goal: Primary Functions

• Warehouse Operations & Inventory Management
• Maintain a visible presence on the warehouse floor and actively participate in daily warehouse operations.
• Oversee and support receiving, storage, inventory management, order fulfillment, shipping, and material handling activities.
• Ensure accuracy of warehouse transactions, including receipts, transfers, shipments, work order processing, and inventory reconciliations.
• Monitor inventory levels, maintain accurate records, and support inventory audits, cycle counts, and discrepancy resolution.
• Organize and maintain warehouse inventory and storage areas to maximize efficiency, product integrity, and safety.
• Analyze warehouse performance and prepare reports on operational metrics, inventory accuracy, and productivity.
• Support internal packing and inventory requirements, including work order creation, sample orders, spot orders, and subcontractor inventory transactions.
• Provide hands-on operational support during peak periods, inventory projects, audits, staffing shortages, and business continuity situations.
• Support workload balancing and operational priorities across warehouse locations.

Leadership & Employee Development

• Provide leadership and operational oversight for warehouse activities across multiple locations.
• Directly supervise warehouse personnel, including scheduling, coaching, performance management, attendance management, and employee development.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide ongoing feedback to support employee growth and accountability.
• Support onboarding, training, cross-training, and development of warehouse personnel.
• Maintain regular communication with warehouse leads and employees to ensure alignment of priorities, resources, and service levels.
• Utilize reporting tools and performance metrics to monitor operational effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for warehouse operational and personnel issues.

What We Expect Of You

• Good attendance and punctuality (may occasionally require extended hours)
• Maintain professional conduct and work effectively with employees and cross-functional teams
• Demonstrate strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrate leadership, accountability, and teamwork
• Identify, resolve, and escalate operational issues as appropriate
• Effectively lead and support employees across multiple warehouse locations
• Maintain regular communication with warehouse leads, employees, and business partners
• Demonstrate the ability to supervise employees through both direct and remote leadership practices
• Maintain a hands-on leadership approach by actively supporting warehouse operations as business needs require
• Balance supervisory responsibilities with operational execution to ensure productivity and service levels are met
• Travel between warehouse locations as required to support operations, training, audits, inventory projects, and business needs
• Maintain a flexible schedule, including early starts, weekends, and holidays as needed

Your Benefits And Working Environment

We provide a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, 401(k) and other benefits.

Recruitment Process

The interview process may require you to have several interviews in person and remote via Teams.

Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since 1743. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries. Vilmorin-Mikado has more than 1,000 employees and recorded sales of 230 million in 2022-2023, of which 15% was entirely devoted to research. World leader in carrots and witloof chicory, Vilmorin-Mikado is also a major player in salads, tomatoes, sweet peppers, kabocha squashes, daikon radishes and bunching onions. Nearly three centuries ago, Vilmorin-Mikado's founders began our Tree Seeds work, which actively contributes to rebuilding sustainable forests. Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d'Allier plain, in the heart of Central France's Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.