Director, Distribution Centers

Role Overview

• Champion Duke Energy’s safety culture, ensuring all distribution center operations meet or exceed corporate safety goals and regulatory requirements.
• Diligently manage and optimize an budget of $15M, ~$600M in inventory and thousands of warehouse operation transactions
• Speak up and actively address risks, concerns, or conditions that could impact safety, reliability, or environmental compliance.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable company policies, state and federal regulations, environmental requirements, and material handling standards.
• Establish and reinforce operational discipline, standard work, and audit readiness across all distribution center activities.
• Provide full accountability for receiving, storage, inventory control, picking, staging, and issuance of materials supporting Transmission, Distribution, and Generation.
• Lead large, complex distribution center operations managing high‑value inventories critical to system reliability and emergency response.
• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of materials by maintaining strong inventory accuracy, process discipline, and service‑level performance.
• Manage operating budgets and financial performance, with a clear understanding of impacts to O&M, capital, cash flow, and inventory.
• Use data and performance metrics to evaluate results, identify gaps, and drive stakeholder engagement.
• Lead, engage, and develop a workforce of 50 or more employees, including material specialists, supervisors, and managers.
• Build leadership capability through coaching, feedback, succession planning, and development plans aligned with Duke Energy expectations.
• Promote accountability, ownership, and a results‑oriented mindset across all levels of the organization.
• Foster collaboration, respect, and open communication, especially during periods of change or transformation.
• Partner effectively with Human Resources and labor relations, including union engagement where applicable.
• Build positive, collaborative relationships with Transmission, Distribution, and Generation, and Union leaders and other Supply Chain partners.
• Actively seek and share information to anticipate business needs related to forecasts, capital programs, major projects, and emergency response.
• Develop strategies to advance operational scale by partnering with best-in-class 3rd party providers that can complement the internal operation to manage risk, specialty work, or peak and valleys in demand for services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Operations, Business Management, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, Project Management, or similar field of study.
• 7 or more years of warehousing, inventory management, field operations, operations systems or equivalent work experience
• In lieu of required education, High School/GED and minimum 11 years related work experience
• 5 or more years of supervisory experience in warehousing, field operations, inventory management or supply chain functions
• Demonstrated experience with executing material management or warehousing transactions, overseeing safety compliance and interfacing with Environmental, Health and Safety regulations.
• 3 or more years of experience with reporting financial and operational metrics
• Strong project management and communication skills
• Ability to think strategically and understand short-term and long-term impact of business decisions
• Proven history of developing relationships with internal and external business partners, business leadership and corporate functions like accounting, finance, rates, audit, IT etc.
• Strong background in process design, system implementation
• 3 years or more of leadership experience and driving business change by influencing employees, peers and superiors, as well as developing employees.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and set direction under conflicting strategic and tactical priorities.

Benefits

• friendly work environment
• opportunities for growth and development
• recognition for your work
• competitive pay and benefits