Warehouse Lead

The Warehouse Lead is responsible for coordinating all shipping and receiving activities performed by the warehouse team.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

· Works closely with Supply Chain Leadership to facilitate daily task to warehouse personnel.

· Act as a process leader and handle all warehouse process leadership activities as assigned by leadership. This includes directing the work activities of others as needed to complete daily work assignments.

· Maintain strong forklift operations experience to support the training and development of other team members. This include participating in the forklift certification process as needed.

· Serves as point of contact for all warehouse related SAP & Forklift terminal issues.

· With Leadership support, coordinate all department compliance to corporate safety and security initiatives.

· Audits daily forklift safety checks on department equipment and generates work orders for repairs through CMMS as needed.

· Creates weekly outbound transfer orders for shipments going to customers and/or external warehouses.

· Coordinate the correct movement of raw material, work in process and finished goods within the plant, working closely with dock forklift and production forklift operators to maintain organized process material flow and inventory.

· Responsible for staying current with the status of all inbound and outbound shipments.

· Performs daily/weekly/monthly cycle counts as assigned by leadership.

· Responsible for monitoring the activity of the warehouse and shipping yard to ensure all FIFO procedures are being met.

· Ensure that receiving activities for incoming materials, MRO parts and all other incoming shipments are handled properly, inspected and documented.

· Ensure external and internal customer demands and requests are satisfied at all times.

· Coordinate all 5S and other CI initiates in the warehouse.

· Shall understand the Food Safety Policy, GMP's, HACCP Principle and Food Safety Standard.

· Other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills & Competencies:

· Strong written/verbal communication skills in English as a single business language.

· Computer skills at level that can support the ability to complete inventory based transactions.

· Excellent people skills, high energy and positive cultural fit.

· Familiarity with lean manufacturing practices.

Education and or Experience:

· High School Diploma or GED required.

· 5+ years of experience with inventory management systems required.

· Experience with Microsoft Office suites at a functional level required.

· Forklift and Material handing experience required.

· Experience in a manufacturing setting preferred.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, feel and talk or hear. The team member is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and work in confined spaces. The team member must occasionally lift and or move up to 75 pounds and frequently lift between 1- 50 pounds. There is no continual lifting. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision as well as color recognition. Good hand eye coordination is necessary.