A floor coating warehouse manager stores the company's resins, hardeners, solvents, flake and grinders, and gets each crew's materials out the door on time. They keep flammable stock within OSHA's cabinet limits and make sure crew trucks carry hazardous coatings under DOT's rules.
By the HireBus team · Updated · Pay data: BLS, May 2025
Median pay, building finishing contractors · BLS, May 2025
Oversee the effective management of inventory and product storage in a fast-paced floor coating environment to support operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Manage daily warehouse operations, ensuring precise tracking of floor coating products and supplies.
Maintain accurate product inventory and coordinate proper storage methods that comply with safety regulations.
Implement and refine inventory tracking systems to optimize performance and minimize waste.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align supply levels with operational requirements.
Ensure adherence to company policies, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
3. Key Tasks / Daily Activities
Conduct daily inventory audits and reconcile discrepancies to ensure accurate stock records.
Oversee the receiving, storage, and dispatch of floor coating supplies with minimal delays.
Monitor and maintain proper storage conditions to safeguard product integrity.
Communicate with suppliers regarding order status and delivery schedules.
Generate daily reports on inventory status and operational performance for management review.
4. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Inventory Accuracy Rate: Achieve a minimum of 98% accurate stock count.
Order Fulfillment Rate: Ensure 95% of orders are processed and dispatched on time.
Safety Compliance: Maintain a warehouse safety incident rate of less than 2% per year.
Supply Reorder Efficiency: Reduce inventory reorder lead time by 10% on a quarterly basis.
5. Required Qualifications and Skills
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in warehouse management or inventory control.
Proficiency in warehouse management software and Microsoft Office Suite.
Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
6. Preferred Experience
Experience in managing inventory for floor coating or building supply products.
Background in the home services or construction industries.
Familiarity with lean management practices and inventory optimization strategies.
Proven leadership ability in a warehouse or operations setting.
7. Physical Requirements
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs on a regular basis.
Capacity to work on your feet for extended periods.
Flexibility to work in environments with varying temperature conditions.
Frequent bending, stooping, and climbing required.
8. Work Environment and Schedule
Typical work hours: 8 AM to 5 PM.
Occasional overtime during peak operational periods.
Minimal travel required between company facilities.
On-call support for urgent supply or inventory issues when necessary.
9. Compensation and Benefits
Annual salary range: $55,000 to $75,000 USD.
Performance bonus opportunities based on meeting KPI targets.
Health, Dental, Vision, and 401k plans available.
Additional benefits include paid time off, employee discounts, and career development programs.
10. Company Culture and Overview
We foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovative solutions in every department.
Our collaborative environment values diversity, integrity, and a commitment to excellence.
We invest in professional development and strive to support employees in reaching their full potential.
Our mission is to create an inspiring and inclusive workplace where every team member contributes to our collective success.
11. How to Apply
If you meet the above criteria and want to be part of a growth-oriented company focused on customer satisfaction, please send your resume to [INSERT EMAIL HERE] or apply online at [INSERT WEBSITE LINK HERE].
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What changes for a warehouse manager in floor coating
A coating warehouse holds chemicals that can burn, spill or spoil, along with the machines crews can't work without. The rules for storing and hauling them land on this role.
Flammable stock goes in rated cabinets
Look up each product's flammability category on its safety data sheet, cleanup solvents included, and store by that category. Under OSHA's rule, a single storage cabinet may hold no more than 60 gallons of Category 1, 2 or 3 flammable liquids, or 120 gallons of Category 4. Local fire codes can add limits, so ask your fire marshal before stock grows. Source: eCFR: 29 CFR 1910.106, flammable liquids.
Crew trucks carry coatings as materials of trade
DOT lets a contractor haul some hazardous materials on its own trucks under the materials of trade exception. For Class 3 or 8 products in Packing Group II or III, the limit is 8 gallons per package, with a 440-pound gross cap on the total materials of trade a vehicle carries. Packages must be leak tight, secured and marked with the material's name, and the driver must be told what's aboard. First confirm from each data sheet's shipping details that the product is regulated at all. Source: eCFR: 49 CFR 173.6, materials of trade exceptions.
Closed, dry and out of the cold
Rust-Oleum's safety data sheet for its epoxy garage kit says to store it in a dry, well ventilated place and keep containers tightly closed when not in use. A half-used pail with a loose lid takes on moisture and dirt. In a northern winter, keep resins in a heated room rather than an unheated trailer, so crews don't load cold, thick product in the morning. Source: Rust-Oleum: EpoxyShield garage floor coating kit safety data sheet.
Space for the busy season
Garage floors sell hardest once the weather warms. Plan pallet space and a stock build with operations and sales a season ahead, so kits aren't stacked in the aisles when crews are booked solid. Check that the extra stock still fits your cabinet and storage limits.
How much floor coating warehouse managers make
The closest BLS group for floor coating warehouse managers is transportation, storage, and distribution managers. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers who work for building finishing contractors earned a median of $72,500 a year ($34.85 an hour) in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s below the $107,230 median for transportation, storage, and distribution managers in all industries. About 610 of the 221,180 transportation, storage, and distribution managers in that survey work for building finishing contractors.
Usually salaried with KPI bonuses, as in the template. Its band starts near the BLS low end for this industry's storage and distribution managers and reaches about the median.
Building finishing contractors
$72,500$72,500 median Middle half $56,990–$94,210 10th–90th $51,770–$104,010
All industries
$107,230$107,230 median Middle half $82,440–$146,770 10th–90th $65,120–$194,900
$25k$50k$75k$100k$125k$150k$175k$200k$225k
10th–90th percentileMiddle halfMedianAnnual pay, May 2025. Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.
Annual pay by percentile
Group
10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
Building finishing contractors
$51,770
$56,990
$72,500
$94,210
$104,010
All industries
$65,120
$82,440
$107,230
$146,770
$194,900
BLS doesn’t publish pay for floor coating contractors on their own. These figures cover building finishing contractors, which include them. Post a real range for your market in the ad.
The pay line in the template above is an example from our Role Blueprint. Set yours from these figures and what local companies pay.
Skills to hire for, and what you can teach
Hire for these
Years running a warehouse or stockroom that handled chemical products
Working knowledge of hazmat labels, safety data sheets and flammable storage
A system for keeping counts right with a small team
Firm follow-up with suppliers on late or wrong orders
Getting crews loaded and out without holdups
Teach these on the job
Your coating systems, flake blends and kit parts
DOT's materials of trade rules for your trucks
Your inventory software and reports
Basic grinder and dust collector checks
Your local fire code limits
Expect warehouse or inventory software tied to the field service app, barcode labels, a pallet jack or forklift, and flammable storage cabinets. Say which software and equipment you run so experienced managers can tell how fast they'd get started.
Two of the 6 questions we'd ask, and what a strong answer sounds like. Ask every candidate the same questions, and rate each answer on your own before you compare notes.
Situational · Damaged containers
A pail of hardener is bulging. What do you do?
A strong answer: Treats it as a pressure hazard, isolates it, follows the safety data sheet, and contacts the supplier.
Behavioral · Count accuracy
Tell me about a time stock counts didn't match the system, such as coating kits or flake boxes. How did you find the cause?
A strong answer: Recounted, traced the gap to a step like unlogged returns, fixed the process, and checked the next count.
The template's figures are samples. Base yours on your own counts and delivery records from the last busy season, and review them before the next one.
Inventory Accuracy Rate
Shelf counts that match the system, item by item, at each audit. Weigh flake and partial pails rather than eyeballing them, and log each correction with its cause.
Order Fulfillment Rate
Crew loads and stock requests ready when promised, as a share of every request. Note each late load and why, such as a missing kit or a late supplier truck.
Safety Compliance
Warehouse injuries, spills and near misses over the year, plus findings from regular walk-throughs of cabinets, racks, labels and exits. Track open findings until they're closed.
Supply Reorder Efficiency
Days between spotting a reorder need and the delivery being put away, for each supplier. Compare quarters, and work with suppliers on cutoffs, minimums and delivery days.
What tasks match the warehouse template's bending, climbing and temperature lines?
Those template lines go out unchanged. Here they mean lifting resin pails and flake boxes off pallets, bending to reach low shelves, climbing a ladder to upper racks, and working in a building that is cold by the dock in winter and warm under the roof in summer. List that work plainly in the ad and let applicants judge it.
How much does a floor coating warehouse manager make?
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers who work for building finishing contractors earned a median of $72,500 a year ($34.85 an hour) in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The middle half earned between $56,990 and $94,210 a year. Pay also depends on your local market, experience and bonus terms.
Should the warehouse manager look after the grinders?
Often, yes. Grinders, dust collectors and vacuums come back to the warehouse each night, so someone has to check them in, clean them, swap worn diamond tooling and tag broken units before they go out again. Keep a log of hours and repairs for each machine, and agree with dispatch how a tagged machine comes off the board.
What should happen to a pail that froze or baked in a truck?
Pull it aside and label it before anyone loads it. Check the product data sheet for its storage range, then ask the maker whether it can still be used. Never let a crew test a doubtful pail on a customer's floor. Log what happened so the cause, such as a cold trailer or a hot dock, gets fixed.
What goes in the warehouse manager's daily report?
Stock of fast movers against the floors booked for the next week, supplier orders that are late, stock on hold for damage or age, machines out of service, and any spill or injury. Keep it to one screen. Operations uses it to decide what to order and which jobs might need to move.
