Logistics Quality Supervisor-Shepherdsville, KY
It's more than a job
As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.
The Quality Supervisor is responsible for leading Quality employees in both Audit and Inspection, engaging in continuous improvement efforts and ensuring high standards of quality and production. The ideal candidate will have previous experience supervising quality teams.
How you create impact
• Provide direction to quality employees and lead employee engagement.
• Direct day to day quality and production deliverables and initiatives.
• Hold employees accountable while maintaining a key working relationship.
• Provide expertise and leadership in the quality and compliance field.
• Understand processes, specification changes; know when change may have a possible effect on other areas.
• Identify opportunities to optimize inspection techniques and improve quality control procedures.
• Ensure measurement and testing equipment (e.g., calipers, gauges and blueprints)
• Be the primary point of contact between the Inspectors and Operations staff.
• Promptly escalate to the QA Supervisor/Manager, any interpersonal or staff challenges.
• Provide daily guidance, training and supervision to QA Inspectors to meet production throughput
• Handle Internal Audit / Assessment Activities as required.
• Interact as needed with customers, both proactively and reactively, to demonstrate Quality commitment.
• Supports activities to ensure communication between internal and external customer.
• Understand and adhere to local, State, and Federal regulations inclusive of, but not limited, to OSHA, DOT, EPA and other government agencies. Certification is required to handle any hazardous material(s).
What we would like you to bring
• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent with 3 or more years of experience in operations leadership, quality or closely related field.
• 3+ years of recent experience in a warehouse environment
• 2 or more years in a supervisory role
• Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• Experience with SAP.
• Prior experience in Quality ITC Audit or Quality Inspection.
What's in it for you
Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-on-site
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to support portions of the recruitment process, such as reviewing application materials or assisting with scheduling. These tools analyze information to help inform decision making; however, all hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.
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Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.