Warehouse Lead

About the role

Responsible for providing and ensuring employee safety, meeting daily production goals, driving process improvements, maintaining economical conformance to budget, and ensuring product acceptance to customer requirements. Provides leadership support in all aspects of industrial woodworking within a high-volume cellular manufacturing facility. Offers a problem-solving approach to Line Leaders and other team members, and facilitates communications for continuous improvement efforts and strong employee relations.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communications to encourage all employees to identify with and actively participate in plant safety (regulations, awareness, and process). Foster safety awareness and plant housekeeping.
• Investigate any production or safety concerns to ensure a safe and productive working environment.
• Ensure that all job-related accidents or injuries are reported and documented by those responsible and take appropriate corrective action in an expeditious manner.
• Promote safe work practices, job training, dissemination of company policies and procedures, quality standards, timely and constructive performance evaluations, and corrective actions when necessary.
• Accountable for all aspects of manufacturing within assigned area, including one or more of the following: machining, sanding, finishing and/or assembly of component cabinet parts, as well as material workflow, productivity, quality specifications, and departmental efficiency.
• Operational measurements include employee/cell performance, scrap rate, labor rates, minimizing overtime, and cost effectiveness.
• Promote the concepts of a team and world-class manufacturing environment by building effective teams.
• Schedule daily production runs and communicate performance to plan.
• Reduce material and labor costs through formal continuous improvement processes.
• Facilitate group meetings to ensure communication of safety/environmental and daily/weekly production requirements and goals, as well as address and resolve non-performance and product non-conformance issues.
• Annually devise and review Management by Planning objectives for self and direct reports to provide ample information for annual performance development summaries.
• Perform any other projects or assignments as requested by the Plant Manager.

Requirements

• High School diploma.
• Intermediate experience and knowledge with the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision with demonstrated ability to complete projects.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a team member and be receptive to change and cross-functional training.
• Demonstrated strong personal, interpersonal, motivational, intellectual, and leadership competencies.
• Good communication skills, both oral and written, with ability to obtain action, change, and achieve desired results.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, conflict resolution, and performance feedback skills.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• 3-5 years of progressive responsibility in support of manufacturing operations.
• Experience working in a medium-to-large cabinet manufacturing setting.
• Experience in the kitchen or office furniture industry is a plus.
• Experience in other various technical or highly process-related manufacturers.