Area Manager
Company: United Legwear Company LLC
Role summary
Area Manager is a full-time role at United Legwear Company LLC in Beaumont, California, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-09-09. Salary: USD 80,000–90,000 per year. Experience level: 2-5.
- Job title
- Area Manager
- Company
- United Legwear Company LLC
- Location
- Beaumont, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Retail
- Salary
- USD 80,000–90,000 per year
- Experience level
- 2-5
- Date posted
- 2026-09-09
This Area Manager role offers a competitive salary and a chance to oversee operations across multiple locations. It's a great opportunity for someone looking to step into a leadership position with significant responsibility and potential for growth.
Job description
Position Summary
The Area Manager is a frontline supervisory role instrumental in ensuring safe and efficient operations of a $1B company’s 1.8M Sq Ft automated distribution center (DC).
Leading a dedicated team of mostly hourly contractors, the Area Manager oversees the accurate handling of merchandise and optimizing throughput. This position requires a strong blend of leadership, operational expertise in an automated facility, and a deep understanding of distribution operations, while working in a fast-paced, diverse team environment that prioritizes collaboration, trust, and teamwork to drive employee and customer satisfaction.
Proactive leadership is essential in driving efficiency, maintaining safety protocols, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Developing and empowering the team to meet and exceed operational goals is a key responsibility of this role. Reporting directly to the Operations Manager, the Area Manager plays a pivotal role in the success of our distribution center.
Leadership Responsibilities
At ULAC, we are looking for people who share our vision of fostering a collaborative culture of continuous improvement. All leadership roles at ULAC are responsible for developing, empowering, and growing our people to be and deliver their best. Leadership behaviors that model ULAC’s mission and values of Unity, Loyalty, Achievement, and Charity include:
Lead Proactively: Anticipate and solve problems with foresight, reflection, and curiosity. Inspire, reinforce, and motivate team members to be solution-oriented and strive for performance excellence. Identify and drive creative solutions.
Provide Positive & Frequent Performance Feedback: Maximize performance and motivation by acknowledging and reinforcing good performance, identifying opportunities for growth, and supporting continuous development.
Initiate Structure: Establish, communicate, and achieve ambitious and specific team goals. Consistently plan and build structured processes that reinforce company objectives.
Achieve Objectives: Develop, initiate, and enhance plans that enable the execution of work. Provide consistent guidance, follow-up, feedback, support, and encouragement to team members to overcome barriers to success. Understand, use, and monitor all relevant reporting system metrics to make informed decisions that impact our people, processes, and systems.
Foster Positive Culture: Perpetuate positive change and continuous improvement in processes and culture by fostering an optimistic, trusting, innovative, and open work environment.
Communicate Effectively: Encourage effective dialogue, problem-solving, and conflict resolution by actively listening to, seeking to understand, and fostering collaboration with peers, leadership, and direct reports.
Motivate and Inspire: Cultivate and empower high-performing teams by modeling company values, demonstrating respect, and providing constructive feedback. Serve as a visionary to encourage individuals and teams to reach their greatest potential.
Train and Develop Others: Fulfill employee training and development needs by serving as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of their knowledge transfer, skill development, and ability to achieve high performance.
Functional Responsibilities
Operations Management
Proactively manage and maintain daily and weekly operational efficiency by monitoring and ensuring performance standards are met accordingly in a time sensitive and fast-paced automated distribution center.
Effectively manage team of associates, utilizing insights into business volume forecasting to anticipate and prepare for future trends.
In alignment with Operations Manager, use discretion and sound judgment to maintain the integrity of our Mission, Vision, and Values statement in making all business decisions.
Team Leadership and Supervision
Supervise, direct, and develop a team of leads and associates within the designated distribution center areas, ensuring attention to detail, safety, efficiency, and meeting of key performance metrics.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities effectively, ensuring each team member understands their role and objectives.
Performance Monitoring and Quality Assurance
Assume personal responsibility to meet and exceed department key performance indicators (KPIs) and productivity levels, while maintaining quality and accuracy.
Validate quality and accuracy of associate duties and responsibilities, ensuring efficient, accurate, and productive completion of all tasks.
Proactively observe team members, point out what they are doing right, hold them responsible to meet performance standards such as adherence to safety, and document coaching conversations related to performance.
Planning and Organization
Demonstrate strong planning skills to efficiently manage daily operations in a high-volume fast-paced environment.
Proactively plan and organize workflows within the assigned area to ensure efficient operations and optimal use of resources.
Collaboration and Strategic Planning
Initiate collaboration with Senior Leaders, shared services, and team members to develop strategic plans and procedures to increase throughput, accuracy, and efficiency.
Use operational metrics to forecast trends to effectively deploy and support team members.
Communication and Relationship Management
Maintain high frequent engagement with team members on the floor to drive the flow of work and make necessary adjustments to ensure efficiency, productivity, and accuracy.
Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with direct manager, peers, and team members, proactively resolving conflicts and grievances as needed.
Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate with Supervisors, Peers, or Associates by telephone, in written form, e