Warehouse Team Lead-2nd Shift

Job Description

The Warehouse Lead will work closely with the Warehouse Supervisor to ensure efficient operations within the warehouse. The primary responsibilities include overseeing timely receipts and shipments, maintaining inventory transaction controls, providing training and development for new hires, facilitating the rollout of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), ensuring safety and compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), promoting professionalism, and maintaining high levels of accuracy in picking, shipping, and receiving processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate support teams and monitor incoming and outgoing shipments
• Transact shipments and receipts in Business Central and JIT support systems in real-time
• Assist in the implementation and smooth operation of Warehouse Management Systems, providing feedback and troubleshooting as needed
• Ensure support teams follow inventory transaction processes to optimize accuracy and minimize discrepancies
• Report variances and errors to supervisor and inventory control teams
• Assist in tracing and correcting inventory discrepancies
• Enforce safety guidelines and Food Safety standards to create a secure and compliant working environment
• Monitor and improve pick accuracy, shipment accuracy, and receipt accuracy through KPI's and continuous improvement initiatives
• Train and mentor new warehouse team members, ensuring they adhere to best practices and safety protocols

Leadership Responsibility

• Energetic forward thinking individual with ability to maintain effective working relationships within all levels of the organization.
• Uphold a high level of professionalism in all warehouse activities, fostering a positive and productive team culture
• Maintain open and clear communication channels with warehouse team members, supervisors and other departments
• Ability to maintain an active physical presence on the warehouse floor as required
• Ability to manage a project from its initiation to completion with minimal direction and supervision.
• Capable of working without direction

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Previous experience in warehouse operations or a related field preferred. Detail-oriented and able to multitask effectively.

• Highly skilled on Standup Forklift and Electric Pallet jack
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy

Working conditions

• Able to work in a noisy, wet and cold environment of approximately 34-38 degrees Fahrenheit
• Work between two warehouses and around moving equipment

Physical requirements

• Ability to continuously lift objects up to 50 lbs. required
• Be able to sit, walk, bend, push and pull