Join the Teknova Team and Help Shape the Future of Health

When you join the Teknova team, you’re helping to create the future of health. Our customers are working to discover novel therapies that will help people everywhere live longer, healthier lives. We make sure they have a reliable supply of the essential ingredients they need to succeed, and every member of our team plays an important role. 

JOB OVERVIEW 

The Warehouse Supervisor directly supervises, coordinates, and participates in all activities for incoming raw materials, outgoing products, and non-production materials. This position reports to the Warehouse Manager and has a direct impact on Teknova’s Supply Chain capabilities. 

Our Culture:

At Teknova, our culture is all about creative problem solving, and our default answer is “Yes.” We’re customer-obsessed and go all in for them and each other. We aren’t interested in the status quo—we want to discover what’s possible. We’re bold and built to change. We go above and beyond to develop novel products that help our customers get reliable results, engineer formats that fit their systems, and find ways to ship out their orders one day sooner. Every time we help our customers work more efficiently; we bring them a step closer to that big breakthrough.

Our Values:

We value the unique personality and background of everyone on our team—we want you to be you. By working together and sharing our skills, we find new and better solutions for our customers. The people on our team are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re here to support them.  

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Oversees and directs the assigned team; gives work direction, assigns tasks and monitors the work at frequent intervals.  
• Responsible for daily operations, and attending back-order meetings with Production when manager is not on-site
• Ensures appropriate training of team associates is completed in a timely fashion for all work to be performed.  
• Maintains schedules and workflow of the team. Communicates any technician planned and unplanned absences and adjusts the workload in a timely manner and coordinates team to ensure customer needs are met.  
• Coordinates with other teams to meet all customer demands and shipping schedules and oversee the WC-OUT (Work Center Output).  
• Ensures timecards are accurate and correct in a timely fashion each pay period.  
• Leads special projects as assigned.  
• Ensures First In – First Out or First Expired - First Out product procedure is followed
• Prioritizes OTD (On-Time Delivery) orders and VDM (Visual Daily Management) metrics
• Coordinates freight deliveries for customer accounts as needed, and ensures that all customer specifications are met
• Receives, unpacks, packs, loads, processes, and stores products; completes packing slips for shipments as required. 
• Ensures all incoming material and outgoing product is accurately accounted for and entered correctly into the ERP system. 
• Follows all standard operating procedures to accurately receive and ship materials. 
• Notifies proper departments regarding any discrepancies with products delivered, ordered or shipped. 
• Safely and efficiently moves and handles items. 
• Makes sure all raw materials, containers or closures are stored off the floor and properly spaced. 
• Obtains Certificate of Analysis and Certificate of Origin and any other product quality or sterility related documentation and delivers them to be scanned. 
• Works with the Material Handlers as needed to ensure delivery of requested items from material locations/bins to the production areas. 
• Monitors Critical List items.
• Maintains current Hazardous Materials Certification
• Operates and demonstrates use of specialized warehouse equipment as necessary. 
• Organizes, documents, monitors, and reports status on all warehouse metrics on a weekly or other basis as requested. 
• Presents verbal project updates to the Operations Leadership as required. 
• Monitors failure rates and modes of scanning devices and equipment used on the job and supports and services them or directs others to service them as appropriate once placed into use. 

EDUCATION 

• High School Diploma / GED equivalent 

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE 

• Minimum 4 years prior related warehouse experience (including purchase order and shipping document familiarity). 
• Minimum 2 years supervisory experience. 
• Minimum 2 years prior forklift experience preferred. 
• Fundamental and working knowledge of computers, including MS Office applications (i.e. MS Word, MS Excel, etc.) 
• Good human relations and oral/written communication skills. 
• Ability to adequately understand, communicate and follow written and/or oral instructions in English. 
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently. 
• Basic math and recording abilities. 
• Keen attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational skills. 
• Must be able to walk, bend, carry, lift, push and pull up to 50 pounds. 

From our scientists to our shipping department, the people who thrive here see beyond reporting lines—they are driven and open to learning something new. If you’re ready to make a difference and be part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and customer obsession, we’d love to hear from you. Join us at Teknova and help shape the future of health.

Teknova is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other status or characteristic protected by law.