Javier Covarrubias
Dallas
Summary
Warehouse operations leader with expertise in employee training, inventory management, and workflow optimization. Proven ability to enhance team performance and operational effectiveness. Dedicated to maintaining compliance with safety and quality standards while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead/Sales Support
Arcadia Stones LLC
Dallas
10.2023 - Current
- Led a team in sales support, enhancing customer satisfaction through effective communication and problem-solving.
- Managed inventory processes, ensuring optimal stock levels and reducing waste.
- Coordinated employee training programs, fostering skill development and performance optimization.
- Implemented workflow improvements, streamlining operations and boosting efficiency.
- Utilized ERP systems to track sales data and inventory, driving informed decision-making.
Warehouse Manager
Bamboo Studio
Arlington
02.2017 - 10.2023
- Coached, trained, and mentored warehouse employees on protocols and practices to enhance operational efficiency.
- Ensured team compliance with SOPs by managing training matrix and documentation.
- Ensures compliance with all Safety, Quality, and Governmental requirements.
- Maintained high visibility and accessibility to shipping, receiving, and packing room employees to promptly address needs.
- Understands department goals to ensure production for the team is met.
- Conduct annual Physical Inventory Counts.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Pulling picked product from pick mod, placing labels on products and loading product to conveyor belt at a safe and consistent pace.
- Navigating through warehouse by foot to pull product from location identified on pick tickets received from label coordinator.
Operations Admin
Nogales Produce
Dallas
08.2014 - 02.2017
- Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching and assuring quality of goods.
- Ensure shipments and inventory transactions' accuracy.
- Organize and maintain inventory and storage area.
- Measured and reported effectiveness of warehousing activities and employee performance to enhance operations.
- Calculate employee daily, weekly and monthly efficiencies as well as departmental efficiencies.
- Enter daily employee work hours for payroll and track overtime hours.
- Determine staffing levels and assign workload.
- Communicate job expectations and coach employees.
- Identified improvement areas and established innovative or adjusted work procedures to optimize processes.
- Maintain items record, document necessary information and utilize reports to project warehouse status.
- Maintain the job schedule with up to date information.
- Confer and coordinate activities with other departments.
- Interface with customers to answer questions or solve problems.
- Created and maintained accurate production schedules for each department to ensure timely delivery.
- Communicate with the supervisors any discrepancies in production reporting.
- Ensure project drawings are current and revisions distributed to the proper areas.
- Update and maintain usages of raw materials.
- Assist in communicating with central scheduling for deliveries and lead time estimates.
- Ability to work in temperatures as low as -20 Fahrenheit/-25 Celsius in cold storage sites or up to 100 Fahrenheit/37 Celsius in dry storage sites while wearing company provided personal protective equipment and freezer gear.
Warehouse Operations Supervisor
DXP
Dallas
01.2011 - 07.2014
- Directly supervise all activities of dock workers, drivers and support personnel.
- Daily load planning and routing per customer delivery schedule and times for efficiency and cost reduction.
- Be responsible for employee development, accountability, coaching and counseling.
- Ensure proper maintenance of facility, forklift equipment, trailers and handling supplies.
- All operational aspects of the fulfillment center for a given shift.
- Partnering with our People team to recruit, train and develop your workforce for the fulfillment center.
- Responsible for assisting in the administration of loss prevention policies, procedures and initiatives designed to enhance the security and safety of employees.
Shipping Manager
Printing Research Inc
Dallas
01.2005 - 06.2011
- Coordinated shipping and deliveries, ensuring timely communication with staff and customers.
- Monitor and evaluate the safe and efficient loading and unloading process of freight throughout the shift.
- Provide/Maintain shipping documents for delivery and record.
- Secure warehouse, store materials and monitor inventory.
- Train warehouse associates on safe operation of forklift, pallet jacks, and miscellaneous warehouse equipment.
- Secured and serviced company vehicles to ensure operational readiness.
- Directs the coordination of all material handling equipment repairs.
- Established and maintained budgets and records to optimize operational costs while ensuring efficiency.
- Plans, develops, and implements strategic planning of long-term goals, personnel development, and business objectives.
- Analyzes and reviews financial performance of the facility and identifies areas of improvement.
- Ensures appropriate staffing and training of organization as needs are identified.
- Ensures safe and healthy work environment.
- Monitored and evaluated employee safety daily, fostering a culture of safety and compliance.
- Coaches and reviews performance of direct reports.
- Supports company affirmative action plans and goals.
- Conducted daily shift meetings to communicate objectives and address team concerns.
- Negotiate all building, maintenance, and equipment contracts for the facility.
- Inspects trailers throughout the day for cleanliness and to ensure correct loading/unloading techniques are being used.
Education
High School Diploma -
Sunset High School
Dallas, TX06.1988
Skills
- Sales analytics
- Customer relationship management
- Operations management
- Inventory management
- Vendor management
- Financial reporting
- ERP systems
- Microsoft Office suite
- Workflow coordination
- Performance improvement
- Employee training
- Food safety
Timeline
Team Lead/Sales Support
Arcadia Stones LLC
10.2023 - Current
Warehouse Manager
Bamboo Studio
02.2017 - 10.2023
Operations Admin
Nogales Produce
08.2014 - 02.2017
Warehouse Operations Supervisor
DXP
01.2011 - 07.2014
Shipping Manager
Printing Research Inc
01.2005 - 06.2011
High School Diploma -
Sunset High School