Team Lead - Production | Seymour Location
Location: Seymour - Knoxville, TN 37920
About the role
KARM Stores is seeking an Assistant Processing Manager for our Seymour location. This role helps lead the processing department by supporting daily operations, driving productivity, maintaining quality standards, and helping develop a strong, mission‑minded team. The Assistant Processing Manager works closely with the Processing Manager to ensure donations are efficiently accepted, sorted, processed, and priced in a fast‑paced retail environment. At KARM Stores, every role supports a greater mission; our work helps fund the life‑changing ministries of Knox Area Rescue Ministries, and we are proud to serve the community through excellence and purpose. KARM Stores is a Christ‑centered organization committed to serving the community with dignity, integrity, compassion, and excellence.
Responsibilities
- Support the daily operations of the processing department
- Perform and oversee duties related to accepting donations, presorting, processing, and pricing merchandise
- Help ensure quick, accurate, and efficient workflow in a fast‑paced environment
- Encourage and motivate team members to meet daily and weekly production goals
- Work alongside the Processing Manager to address department needs and solve operational issues
- Assist with delegating tasks and responsibilities to team members
- Help lead the department when the Processing Manager is not on shift
- Model and reinforce KARM Stores mission, values, and culture with the team
- Support a work environment that reflects