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The award-winning San José Public Library (SJPL) consists of more than 600 employees, a 23% bilingual workforce, and has 24 branch libraries across San José, in addition to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, which is the city's main library jointly operated through a unique partnership with San José State University. SJPL serves a diverse community of roughly one-million residents and currently has nearly 700,000 library members. It annually attracts over 6 million visitors (pre-pandemic) and circulates more than 8 million items per year.
Over the past few years, SJPL has cultivated a 21st century library experience dedicated to public service and committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the core. In addition to providing library services to the community, SJPL proudly leads two citywide initiatives - the Education and Digital Literacy Strategy and the SJ Access digital equity initiative, which has become the number one provider of free public access to Wi-Fi connectivity, tech device lending, and multi-lingual digital literacy programs and support. SJPL is led by Jill Bourne, City Librarian, who was nationally recognized in 2017 as Library Journal's "Librarian of the Year."
SJPL enriches lives by fostering lifelong learning and ensuring that every member of the community has access to a vast array of ideas and information. The library department is a place where people do great work and make a difference in our community. To see examples of SJPL's work and learn more about its impact, visit www.sjpl.org. Join us to make a difference! The salary range for Warehouse Supervisor classification is $71,722.56 - $87,141.60 annually. All ranges include an approximate five percent (5%) ongoing non-pensionable pay. Actual salary shall be determined by the final candidate's qualifications and experience.
The Library Department is currently recruiting to fill one (1) Warehouse Supervisor position in the Logistics Unit.
The key responsibilities of the Warehouse Supervisor may include but are not limited to:
- Plans and supervises the operations of a major warehousing facility providing a wide variety of commodities utilized City-wide, or a major warehouse with a large number of highly specialized parts and equipment unique to a department.
- Establishes minimum and maximum stock levels through knowledge of usage patterns, stock availability, lead times, specialized usage requirements, shelf life and other pertinent factors.
- Develops methods of efficient space utilization.
- Plans and supervises the receipt, storage, issuance and disposal of items requiring specialized handling.
- Supervises an inter-departmental mail and drayage service.
- Plans and supervises the rotation of stock.
- Ensures majority of stock is turned over in accordance with accepted standards.
- Coordinates with buyers, vendors, user departments and divisions to minimize inventory, eliminates obsolete parts, achieves standardization of parts.
- Maintains records of costs, vendors, usage patterns, replacement component systems, lead times and blueprints.
- Ensures handling of hazardous materials such as paints, solvents, chemicals and fertilizers complies with State and Federal regulations.
- Vehicle Tracking: maintenance on vehicles, recordkeeping.
This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this, or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification, you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.
Ideal Candidate
Education
Completion of high school or equivalent (General Education Development [GED] Test or California Proficiency Certificate.
Experience
Five (5) years of warehousing experience in a moderate size warehouse, two years of which should be supervising others in the receipt, warehousing inventory control of a wide variety of commodities or three (3) years leading others at level equivalent to Warehouse Worker II.
Required Licenses: Possession of a valid State of California driver's license is required.
The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies, as demonstrated in past and current employment history. Desirable competencies for this position include:
- Job Expertise - Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices, Citywide and departmental procedures/policies and federal and state rules and regulations.
- Computer Skills - MS Outlook, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, and MS Excel.
- Customer Service - Demonstrates the ability to anticipate customers' needs and deliver services effectively and efficiently using professional demeanor.
- Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions.
- Initiative - Exhibits resourceful behaviors toward meeting job objectives; anticipates problems, is proactive, and avoids difficulties by planning; displays willingness to assume extra responsibility and challenges; pursues continuing education opportunities that promotes job performance.
- Multitasking - Can handle multiple projects and responsibilities simultaneously; has handled a wide variety of assignments in past and/or current position(s).
- Problem Solving - Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue; determines the significance of problem; collects information; uses logic and intuition to arrive at decisions or solutions to problems that achieve the desired outcome.
- Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills - Develops effective relationships with co-workers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
- Supervision - Sets effective long and short-term goals based on a good understanding of management practices; establishes realistic priorities within available resources; provides motivational support; empowers others; assigns decision-making and work functions to others in an appropriate manner to maximize organizational and individual effectiveness.
- Communication Skills - Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts clearly, orally and in writing; demonstrates effective use of listening skills; displays openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
Selection Process:
The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicant's training and experience based on the application and responses to all the job specific questions. You must answer all questions to be considered or your application may be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration. Only those candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process. Additional phases of the selection process will consist of one or more interviews.
If you have questions about the duties of these positions, the selection or hiring processes, please contact Jennifer Macias at Jennifer.Macias1@sanjoseca.gov .