AP & Safety Manager Distribution Center

The DC Safety & Asset Protection (AP) Manager plays a vital role on the Distribution Center’s leadership team, responsible for ensuring a safe and secure workplace for Advance Auto Parts team members, temporary workers, visitors, and vendors. This role leads risk mitigation efforts and provides real-time support and communication during security breaches or other critical safety events.

The EHS/AP Manager is accountable for reducing team member injury rates, managing security and shrink/damage control, and improving inventory accuracy. Success in this role requires the ability to influence, teach, coach, and train others. Additional responsibilities include ensuring operational and procedural compliance, auditing, hazmat compliance, conducting investigations, and presenting key findings to leadership.

Essential Functions

• Build and maintain partnerships with DC leadership, CSC, and cross-functional teams.
• Develop site-specific loss control strategies to prevent and reduce hazards and losses.
• Investigate incidents and collaborate on corrective actions.
• Support property protection controls, including fire protection standards, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Demonstrate proficiency in DC’s WMS and understand all aspects of DC operations.
• Promote and coordinate company safety, ethics, and integrity programs.
• Deliver training on safety, shrink, defectives, inventory control, and critical incident response.
• Conduct operational audits as needed.
• Maintain OSHA-required programs and ensure proper dissemination of information.
• Alert managers and associates to hazards involving toxic fumes, chemicals, and other dangerous substances.
• Implement and manage environmental programs in compliance with regulations.
• Present audit outcomes and loss trends to DC Leadership with improvement recommendations.
• Conduct physical security walks to ensure compliance with security procedures.
• Build relationships with local law enforcement and healthcare centers.
• Serve as SME for book-to-physical inventory tie-out activities.
• Lead internal investigations and interviews related to safety incidents and theft/fraud.
• Monitor CCTV and Access Control Systems.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Onsite DC position reporting to the Director, EHS/AP.
• Ability to think quickly and solve problems under high-stress conditions.
• Knowledge of federal, state, provincial, and OSHA regulations across multiple states.
• Understanding of loss control strategies related to workers’ comp, liability, property, crime, and third-party administrators.
• Strong strategic leadership and growth mindset.
• Ability to work independently with off-site supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal, partnership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Proficient in internal investigation processes in retail/DC environments.
• Effective communicator across all levels.
• Self-motivated with strong time management and organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Recommended Experience

• College degree in Criminal Justice, Safety, Occupational Health, or related field.
• Prior experience in retail or distribution center preferred.

Certificates, Licenses & Registrations

• Associate Safety Professional (or higher) certification preferred.
• Wicklander-Zulawski certification preferred.
• Six Sigma Black or Green Belt certification is a plus.
• CFI, CFE, LPQ, or LPC certifications preferred.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift/move up to 10 lbs and occasionally up to 50 lbs.
• Vision requirements include close, distance, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Noise level is typically moderate.

Advance Auto Parts is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.