Warehouse Lead

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging supporting multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Our manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, and aluminum. We provide customers with a broad array of stock and customized solutions across 120 product categories, 250 brands, and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations, and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through wide-ranging initiatives.

About the Role

The Shipping Department Lead partners with Shift Leads to ensure the safe, efficient, and accurate execution of all shipping and receiving operations. This position serves as the department's subject matter expert and primary point of contact for resolving operational issues, coordinating daily dock activities, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. The Shipping Department Lead plays a key role in maintaining inventory accuracy, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and leading department employees to achieve operational goals.

Responsibilities

• Able to perform all the job duties of a Shift Lead in the areas of shipping and receiving, assigning work to their teams, as well as required paperwork and tasks
• Ensures that all dock safety procedures are being followed
• Manages the training program, ensuring that training is effective and tracked
• Works with the Load Planner to ensure efficient dock scheduling
• Ensures that shift teams follow dock schedules
• Ensures that department personnel follow proper procedures to maintain the accuracy of all shipping and receiving operations, including outbound finished goods, blank transfers, and roll shipments, along with deliveries of roll stock, shippers, outsourced window blanks, pallets, and sundry items
• Receives outsourced window blanks into SAP
• Ensures that received material is picked up from staging areas by responsible parties
• Ensures that Shift Leads are updating Open Dock with accurate status
• Ensures that drivers are being checked in and out professionally and efficiently
• Orders supplies as needed such as airbags and trailer seals
• Provides timely resolution of any discovered inventory discrepancies in finished goods or blanks
• Ensures that all office files and required documentation are maintained as required

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required; Associate degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or a related field preferred
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in shipping, receiving, warehouse, distribution, or logistics operations
• Previous experience in a lead, coordinator, or supervisory role preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of shipping and receiving processes, inventory control practices, dock operations, and warehouse workflows
• Ability to safely operate powered industrial equipment, including forklifts; current forklift certification preferred or ability to obtain certification upon hire
• Experience loading, unloading, staging, and transporting materials using forklifts and other material handling equipment
• Working knowledge of SAP, warehouse management systems (WMS), or similar ERP systems; SAP experience preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Physically capable of prolonged standing and full-range movement (bending, climbing, kneeling, twisting, reaching)
• Ability to read, write, and understand English sufficiently to perform job duties safely and accurately
• Flexible schedule, including potential overtime, weekend work, or call-ins based on production needs

Pay

Starting pay rate of $24.17/hour with a shift differential pay of $0.75/hour.

Schedule

3rd shift: 11pm - 7am

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical, and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility-level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.