Warehouse, Leader Job Description
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Warehouse, Leader Qualifications
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Warehouse, Leader Job Description
- Search WMS for inventory, when needed
- OT is required at the management’s discretion
- Performs audits which include interviewing, observation and written reports for specific functions within a department
- Performs Bill of Material audits, reports and maintains results, and assures corrections are completed as required
- Performs other required audits within department including safety, environmental, ISO, and other procedural audits
- Operates office machines (i.e., fax, phone, laminator, copier, computer, printer)
- Delivers operating supplies to designated area
- Responsible for accurate & timely LIS/Payroll activities
- Assists in department recycling efforts
- Identifies, isolates, and manages obsolete materials
- Maintains inventory documentation and ongoing inventory accuracy tracking as required
- Maintains GMP standards for staging and storage areas
- Determines maintenance and repair priorities
- Reviews and analyzes major component repairs
- Store materials per their storage requirements and conditions…including Red Label/Dangerous Goods storage, low temperature storage
- Review and provide information to update warehouse documents SMP’s or SOP’s
Warehouse, Leader Job Description
- Fill, prioritize and process requisitions
- Issue stock from warehouse to the production floor
- Prepare the daily priority list and provides it to the Warehouse Clerks
- Make deliveries when necessary
- Monitor and assist QA with “product recall” and “held product” policies and to report non-conformance
- Incumbent is responsible for fulfilling all factory and corporate inventory control repots, audits and policies controlling Finished Goods inventories
- Ensure all areas of storage are in compliance with USDA sanitation standards, FDA and OSHA
- Required to fill in for other Warehouse team leads during absences
- Performs department activities receiving, handling and shipping product
- Advises employees on care and preservation of items received, methods and use of equipment in handling, storing, and maintaining stock and related problems
- High school diploma and certificate in a relevant field or college diploma
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in transportation logistics
- Ability to use Lean tools to run and improve the business/work cell
- Leadership Experience or Customer Focus equivalent
- Strong knowledge of warehouse management systems required
- 6 months experience as a department leader
Warehouse, Leader Job Description
- Initiates all Inbound and Storage Materials Complaints all SAP hold initiatives
- Follows and enforces company and local work rules, safety rules, GMP, policies, procedures, and work instructions
- Perform cross functional duties in all Warehouse positions including Level 3, Inventory Clerk, and Scheduler
- Assist in root because analysis for all Warehouse related issues
- Demonstrate excellent phone / interpersonal skills when dealing directly with customers and vendors become actively involved in the training of Warehouse associates
- Monitor, evaluate and feedback performance of team members on daily/weekly basis
- Identify and report all operational problems to Line/Shift Managers, making recommendations for change as appropriate
- Coach, train and mentor individual team members to ensure Howdens has a fully enabled, supported and multi skilled workforce
- Daily behaviourial audits are carried out along with MHE checks and observational audits
- Plan and organise adequate resource to ensure effective operation eg daily rota’s and holiday planning
- Any previous experience with shipping, packing and order fulfillment is a plus
- Meticulous and attention to detail a must
- Ability to move and bend repeatedly
- Ability to adapt to different working environments
- Must be willing to submit to a background and drug screen
- Point of contact for our customers relating to their orders, customer service
Warehouse, Leader Job Description
- Responsibility for carrying out counselling and return to work interviews, monitoring attendance and performance of team members
- Responsible for carrying out first stage verbal disciplinary hearings in relation to absence and conduct
- Ensure appropriate briefings for all team members take place to inform them of planned requirements, performance, company news and developments within the warehouse
- Carry out annual 1-2-1’s with colleagues within their teams
- Balancing the demands of various activities and developments within the warehouse on an hourly/daily basis
- Dealing with the ever changing work environment, scheduling volumes and space issues
- Responding to changes in resource availability on an hourly, shift basis for eg unplanned activity and system failures
- Understanding internal (RTM, Manufacturing, QC etc) and external (HJ Depots) customer requirements and ensuring these needs are met within the required service and cost targets
- The post holder must have the ability to plan objectives, tasks and manpower levels to be achieved, ensuring that these are completed accurately, to the correct standard and within the agreed timescales
- Must be capable of working in a high pressure environment with the ability to manage a team of staff towards achieving objectives within a tight deadline
- Minimum of 5 - 6 years of experience in plane transportation logistics
- Prefer minimum of Associate Degree and 1 to 3 years’ experience directing a work group
- Must be able to work extended hours a/or overtime as required, including weekends and holidays
- Must be able to participate in job development training (Level 4 Qualified), and must be able to cross-train on all material handling equipment
- Must pass Warehouse Forklift license test
- Forklift sit down and reach trucks
Warehouse, Leader Job Description
- Follows and enforces company and local work rules, safety rules, policies and BOS work instructions and SAP standards & activities
- Indepth experience in all aspects of warehousing and working within a large team
- CIEH level 3 Health and Safety qualification
- Should be PC literate particularly MS Office packages and Red Prairie
- Proven ability to show the drive and energy to challenge self and others
- Proven approach to problem solving and change management
- Proficiency in team building, staff development and influencing
- NVQ Level 2 in Warehousing
- Create customer order using technology such as customer portal, VMI software
- Passes on to associates led, instructions received from supervisor
- Copy machine Floor Cleaning equipment
- Proficient in the use of situational and systemic problem solving methodologies (5 Why’s, FFA’s, RCA’s)
- Sees to it that there is enough work to keep everyone in the work crew busy
- Operates a forklift to move, load or unload, transfer, transport and stack or unstack palletized goods, boxes, crates, merchandise, materials and supplies from one location to another
- Promoting health and safety awareness
- Assist group leader in any additional activities as required and step up to take control when the group leader is out