Larry Gilley
Piedmont
Summary
Well-organized professional with extensive experience in warehouse operations, specializing in inventory management and team supervision. Achievements include increasing order efficiency by 88% and maintaining 99.9% inventory accuracy, ensuring timely and safe product delivery while enhancing team productivity.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Warehouse Specialist
Technica Anniston Army Depot
05.2026 - Current
- Led 15 associates in inventory management and placement of RFID tags on high-value products exceeding 2000.
- Opened packages, placed RFID readers on products and weapons, recorded serial numbers, and archived weapon images. Corrected malfunctioning RFID units and maintained inventory of supplies.
- Tracked and recorded daily work hours for associates to ensure accurate payroll processing.
Operations Supervisor
UNFI
Anniston
07.2017 - 08.2025
- Supervises warehouse shipping, receiving and inventory control operations. Monitor productivity, quality assurance, accuracy, and sanitation in union warehouse associates. Utilize labor and processes to maximize thruput and associate retention.
- Supervised shipping, receiving, and inventory control to confirm accurate load shipments.
- Ensured optimum service to customers while maintaining cost efficiency in operations.
- Conducted daily crew meetings to address safety, productivity, and accuracy, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Coached associates daily using Preferred Methods Observations for skill improvement.
- Fostered positive employee relations, enhancing team cohesion and collaboration.
- Maintain daily production and accuracy records.
- Knowledgeable in P-Plex, Pick Manager, and Red Prairie Systems.
Warehouse and Materials Supervisor
Trinity Meyer Utility Structures
Steele
04.2011 - 01.2017
- Supervised shipping and receiving activities, ensuring compliance with work orders and company protocols.
- Oversaw incoming and outgoing shipments, verifying accuracy and completeness of shipments.
- Managed routing of outbound shipments to ensure compliance with state legal load limits and safety regulations. Legal legal load limits of outbound shipments to ensure that they conform to the state's legal load requirements.
- Inspect loading and unloading activities to make sure that they are in compliance with shipping and receiving specifications.
- Create staff schedules and ensure that each staff member follows them properly.
- Determine space requirements for stored items and received ones and ensure that sufficient space is allocated to each category.
- Overhauled the existing inventory system and established quarterly physical inventory counts which increased its efficiency by 55% and maintained a 99.9% accuracy.
- Put in place quality control standards (according to established procedures of the company) which increased order efficiency by 88%.
- Established FIFO system for consumables to ensure proper usage order. Developed MIN/Max system in tool room to manage high-use parts while minimizing excess stock. Implemented inventory procedures in receiving and tool room, achieving 99.9% inventory accuracy and reducing overtime by 40%.
Shipping Manager
Boral Brick
Gadsden
03.2010 - 04.2011
- Oversaw shipping, receiving, and inventory processes to ensure accurate and timely fulfillment.
- Led team of three associates to guarantee correct item selection for each work order, enhancing order accuracy.
- Ensured packed items were loaded into the delivery vehicle correctly.
- Transported items to the packaging area and ensured that it was safely packed / boxed and labeled with item and batch number information.
- Received incoming shipments and assisted in unloading them from delivery trucks.
- Ascertained that received items were in accordance to the orders specified.
- Guided customers in selecting appropriate building products and completed purchases, while conducting inventory counts to maintain accuracy.
Education
A.S. - Business Management
Gadsden State Community College
Gadsden, AL08-2009
High School Diploma -
Spring Garden High School
Spring Garden, ALSkills
- WMS (Warehouse Management System), OMS, PKMS, J D Edwards, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Kronos, Jobscope, Inventory View, ADP, AS400, Pplex, Red Prairie Systems, RF systems, Vocollect, Pick Manager, Cost Pointe Deltex, Isolved
- Inventory management
Certification
- Forklift Certified
- 10 Hour OSHA Certified
Timeline
Lead Warehouse Specialist
Technica Anniston Army Depot
05.2026 - Current
Operations Supervisor
UNFI
07.2017 - 08.2025
Warehouse and Materials Supervisor
Trinity Meyer Utility Structures
04.2011 - 01.2017
Shipping Manager
Boral Brick
03.2010 - 04.2011
A.S. - Business Management
Gadsden State Community College
High School Diploma -
Spring Garden High School