Job SummaryWe are seeking a dynamic and proactive Assistant Warehouse Manager to join our growing apparel brand. In this vital role, you will support the overall management of our e-commerce fulfillment and distribution activities, ensuring smooth, efficient, and safe processes from manufacturing receipt to final customer delivery. Your leadership will help optimize high-volume apparel inventory control, streamline picking and packing workflows, and enhance team performance. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced retail environment where speed, accuracy, and garment care are top priorities. The ideal candidate is energetic, detail-oriented, and possesses strong managerial skills to motivate and guide warehouse staff toward achieving operational goals.

Responsibilities Fulfillment Operations:

Assist in overseeing daily e-commerce order fulfillment, picking, packing, and outbound shipping schedules to ensure fast transit times and accurate order delivery.

Inbound & Quality Control:

Manage inbound apparel shipments, ensuring proper SKU logging, barcode tagging, and thorough quality control checks for garment defects.

Process Optimization:

Support process improvement initiatives to enhance warehouse layout and reduce picking times using lean management principles tailored to apparel sorting.

Equipment & Tools:

Operate and supervise the use of material handling equipment, RF scanners, and automated tape or bagging machines safely and effectively.

Inventory Control:

Maintain strict inventory accuracy across hundreds of apparel SKUs (including size/color variations) through regular cycle counts and warehouse management systems.

Team Leadership:

Lead, motivate, and manage the warehouse fulfillment team to ensure high performance, safety adherence, and strict attention to packaging standards.

Logistics & Carrier Management:

Coordinate with major shipping carriers (UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS) and optimize shipping materials to balance product protection and dimensional weight costs.

Safety Compliance:

Collaborate with supervisors on implementing warehouse operations best practices to optimize workflow, materials handling, and compliance with OSHA safety standards.

Qualifications Experience:

Proven experience in warehouse operations, e-commerce fulfillment, or distribution center management, with a strong background in apparel logistics preferred.

Inventory Management:

Familiarity with warehouse management systems (WMS), Shopify or similar e-commerce platforms, barcode scanning, and multi-SKU inventory reconciliation.

Leadership Skills:

Demonstrated ability to lead high-volume fulfillment teams effectively with excellent managerial communication skills.

Technical Skills:

Hands-on experience operating material handling equipment, RF scanners, and implementing strict OSHA safety protocols.

Adaptability:

Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, peak seasonal surges (like Black Friday/Cyber Monday), and fast-paced daily shipping targets.

Operational Knowledge:

Knowledge of lean management principles, shipping and receiving procedures, returns processing (reverse logistics), and apparel materials handling.

Background:

Previous experience as a warehouse supervisor, fulfillment lead, or assistant manager is highly preferred.

Pay:

$20.00 - $25.00 per hour Expected hours: No more than 40.0 per week

Benefits:

Dental insurance Flexible schedule Health insurance Parental leave Vision insurance

Work Location:

In person