Sr. Manager - Conveyance & Material Handling
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Location: Mooresville, NC 28117
Description:
Your Impact
The Sr. Manager of Conveyor and Material Handling is responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and deploying strategic conveyor, sortation, and automation investments within our distribution operations. This role is responsible for managing large-scale sortation systems, mechanized assets, and modern automation critical to daily operations performance and execution. The Sr. Manager of Conveyance and Material Handling will work closely with Supply Chain IT, Industrial Engineering, Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and Finance. This role is responsible for warehouse management systems and integrations driven by warehouse execution and control platforms. This role is the relationship manager to key supply chain vendor partners, driving long-term value from investments deployed and serving as a conduit to ensure operational strategies are aligned with equipment performance output and future capital spending planned for subsequent assets. This role is essential to realize plans and implement successful solutions requiring strong partnerships with field maintenance teams, regional maintenance managers, and operations.
Work with a Winning Team
At Lowe's, you're not just managing supply chain operations - you're architecting the backbone of home improvement retail. As a pivotal leader in our logistics powerhouse, you'll orchestrate strategies that ripple across our 1700+ stores, influencing millions of customer experiences daily.
We'll provide you with state-of-the-art resources, from predictive analytics to cutting-edge logistics technology, you'll make decisions that don't just optimize processes, they revolutionize the industry. Your leadership will be the driving force that propels Lowe's forward, fortifying our standing as a Fortune 50 company. Here, your expertise doesn't just contribute to our supply chain success - it defines it.
Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Key Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Benefits
For information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Compensation
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit our benefits page.
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Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
The Sr. Manager of Conveyor and Material Handling is responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and deploying strategic conveyor, sortation, and automation investments within our distribution operations. This role is responsible for managing large-scale sortation systems, mechanized assets, and modern automation critical to daily operations performance and execution. The Sr. Manager of Conveyance and Material Handling will work closely with Supply Chain IT, Industrial Engineering, Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and Finance. This role is responsible for warehouse management systems and integrations driven by warehouse execution and control platforms. This role is the relationship manager to key supply chain vendor partners, driving long-term value from investments deployed and serving as a conduit to ensure operational strategies are aligned with equipment performance output and future capital spending planned for subsequent assets. This role is essential to realize plans and implement successful solutions requiring strong partnerships with field maintenance teams, regional maintenance managers, and operations.
Work with a Winning Team
At Lowe's, you're not just managing supply chain operations - you're architecting the backbone of home improvement retail. As a pivotal leader in our logistics powerhouse, you'll orchestrate strategies that ripple across our 1700+ stores, influencing millions of customer experiences daily.
We'll provide you with state-of-the-art resources, from predictive analytics to cutting-edge logistics technology, you'll make decisions that don't just optimize processes, they revolutionize the industry. Your leadership will be the driving force that propels Lowe's forward, fortifying our standing as a Fortune 50 company. Here, your expertise doesn't just contribute to our supply chain success - it defines it.
Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Key Responsibilities
- Establishes a long-term investment roadmap to drive best-in-class sortation and conveyance solutions, including capital deployments needed to modernize, sustain, and improve existing material handling solution designs.
- Manages strategic partnerships with integrator partners and equipment manufacturers representing key vendors whose systems drive product flow and throughput deliverables within our distribution and fulfillment portfolio (Ex: Honeywell, Dematic, Crown, Raymond, Yale, Daifuku, TGW).
- Develops and establishes long-term support maintenance standards, preventative maintenance programming, equipment upgrades, rebuilds, and new automation solution support (Automated Retrieval, Robotics, Controls).
- Drives SLA expectations, support agreements, performance management standards, and staffing models with strategic material handling partners to support internal execution goals and performance objectives.
- Provides support and project planning leadership to regional maintenance managers and onsite maintenance teams on integrator-led capital deployments and other mechanization deployments that drive system solutions.
- Manages strategic RTB capital planning (Planning, Budgeting, Forecast, Ops coordination) for conveyor improvements, material handling purchases, large-scale preventative maintenance investments.
- Owns overall program management for delivering clear direction, timing, forecasting, and operations coordination related to budgeted investments and planned deployment activities.
- Maintains Capital Asset Inventory that includes a Material Handling Vehicle Fleet, critical maintenance spare parts, and valuable building infrastructure items.
- Establishes key operational partnerships with DC Operations teams and develops feedback and intake for teams to share opportunities, new automation ideas and improvements, and focus items that need to be prioritized.
- This position manages/supervises people.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree Business Administration, Industrial / Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management and 8-10 Years Subject matter expert with significant experience working in a maintenance capacity managing automated material handling systems, MHE vehicle fleets, driving preventative maintenance programs
- 5-7 Years Capital investment planning, budgeting, and forecasting execution in concert with company annual operating plans.
- 5-7 Years Business case analysis experience to justify capital investment roadmap supported through ROI analyses including IRR, Payback, cash flow considerations.
- 5-7 Years Mechanical experience on Conveyor systems, MHE vehicles and equipment, and implementing preventative maintenance actions in support of a faced-paced, progressive distribution environment.
- 5-7 Years Strong operational understanding of warehouse management systems and integrations driven by warehouse execution and control platforms.
- 3-5 Years Managing a team of direct or indirect reports
Benefits
- 401k with up to 4.25% match
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)
- Tuition-Free Education
- 10-week Maternity/Parental Leave
- 10% Associate Discount
For information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Compensation
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit our benefits page.
#LI-Onsite
#LI-LG2
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.