Lead, Warehouse

About the role

Coordinates activities of warehouse workers and performs essential duties including auditing products, adjusting equipment, and implementing new procedures to improve warehouse methods, equipment performance, and product quality. Assists in interpreting specifications, assigning job orders, and motivating workers to achieve goals. Maintains records, completes requisitions, and performs activities of supervised workers, including forklift operation. Serves as Fire Warden and ensures adherence to TS 16949, MMOG/LE, ISO 14001, Quality, Materials, and Safety & Environmental systems. Responsible for maintaining a quality work environment and 5S standards.

Responsibilities

• Audits products to verify conformance to specifications and directs setup and adjustments of equipment.
• Assists with interpreting specifications, assigning job orders, and other duties to workers as directed by the Warehouse Supervisor.
• Adjusts work procedures to meet production and shipping schedules.
• Implements new procedures to improve warehouse methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Implements changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency.
• Verifies daily gauge mastering sheets and forklift checks are performed.
• Assists workers in solving work problems and implements plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Maintains time and warehouse receiving/shipping records; completes requisitions and audits materials.
• Performs activities of workers supervised, including forklift operation.
• Serves as Fire Warden in case of evacuation.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Ensures adherence to TS 16949, MMOG/LE, and ISO 14001 systems and maintains a quality work environment, including 5S.
• Assists all employees in the warehouse.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Assists all employees in the warehouse.

Qualifications

• Associates degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; two (2) to three (3) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Computer literate; must become proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and time keeping software.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.