Trainer 2nd Shift

About the role

Associate holds the primary responsibility for training, retraining and coaching associates in distribution center functions. This includes following standard operating procedures and other activities that affect the overall flow of products to stores and customers. Promotes team building by actively participating in the development of staff. Provides training for new hires and any necessary additional training, coaching and mentoring of associates. Assists management with identifying areas for improving individual and team performance.

Responsibilities

• Counsels new hires on the process of receiving, order picking, packing, shipping and replenishment to be compliant with standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Ensures proper training paperwork is completed and documented.
• Works with management, leads and quality assurance (QA) to provide one-on-one coaching and continual training with current associates.
• Conducts observations on associates to ensure standard operating procedures are being followed and to determine the effectiveness of training programs.
• Acts as a mentor to new hires and current associates on the team.
• Maintains a safe work environment. Performs job functions in a safe manner. Reports any potential job hazards to management, including maintaining good housekeeping practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested by management.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior distribution/warehouse experience preferred.
• Basic computer skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the capability to adjust to change and interruptions.
• Ability to work with limited supervision.
• Strong leadership experience skills.
• Ability to identify training gaps in associates.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish/French/etc. is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Requires 1 to 2 years directly related experience or 3 years of related experience.
• Strong leadership experience skills.
• Ability to identify training gaps in associates.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish/French/etc. is a plus.

Competencies & Attributes

• Passionate Learner: Actively learns; asks questions to gain further understanding; open to feedback; applies learning to role; considers learning important and completes when assigned.
• Flexible & Agile Adapter: Open to change, works well with little direction and finishes the task, keeps calm under pressure and doesn't dwell on the past.
• Talent Builder: Shares knowledge with others, considers how to include others to problem solve and gain knowledge, looks for ways to acknowledge and motivate others.
• Effective Communicator: Can articulate well when sharing information, self-aware of impact and style when communicating to engage others, asks questions and listens.
• Team Builder: Works well with others, collaborates with a wide number of associates/teams, acts humbly when a part of a team and understands the importance of including others.
• Customer Focused: Partners understands the customer and shares insights, values the customer and eager to make a positive impact, holds self to a good standard of customer service.
• Strategic Thinker: Brings new, strategic ideas to the team, actively supports strategic plans, provides additional ideas to drive improvements.
• Big Picture Thinker: Understands how the team operates, knows how decisions could impact other teams.
• Results Driver: Holds self to a good standard of work and delivery, manages own time and focuses on the right priorities, self-motivated, adapts easily, demonstrates grit.
• Problem Solver & Decision Maker: Uses the right information to make decisions and take action with others to solve problems, uses good judgment to make prompt yet balanced decisions.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

• The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts associated with working in a warehouse environment, which requires heightened safety precautions typical of loading/receiving docks and high-volume inventory management operations, e.g., use of safe work practices with light to heavy equipment, while utilizing forklifts and pallet jacks, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations, etc.
• Exposure to occasional fumes and odors and/or temperature fluctuations (25 degrees to 105 degrees Fahrenheit) is possible.
• The position requires some physical exertion and the ability to perform the basic lifting and system tasks for all warehouse functions and departments including receiving, put away, picking, packing, cycle counting, order checking and shipping.
• The work requires the repetitive lifting of cartons weighing 10 to 55 pounds, standing/walking for 6 to 12 hours a day, and climbing up and down stairs and ladders.

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