Warehouse Lead

Title: Warehouse Lead

Department: Warehouse

Position Status: Full Time

Exempt Status: Hourly Non-Exempt

About the Job

CDS Logistics & Home Services is seeking a dynamic warehouse professional to assist in managing the warehouse team in a leading final mile logistics company. The Lead position will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the team’s daily productivity, reporting directly to the Operations Manager. Our primary goal is to ensure excellent operational and production standards are met and maintained.

The Key Job Accountabilities for a leader in the warehouse are listed below. The outline gives a clear overview of the responsibilities that are necessary to obtain success as a leader.

“Leadership is in action only when the dream / goal is a reality at the grass-roots level.” This means that unless your subordinates are well trained and understand the importance of their jobs as related to the success of the business you will not be effective as a leader. This applies to all tasks from sweeping the floor to successfully and accurately completing a full inbound load of product to managing our performance metrics and lean initiative goals.

Break Bulk Lead

In this role you will work in the Pittsburgh Warehouse facility, supporting the daily operations of our business through team leadership, coaching & development of direct reports and accurate completion of daily deliverables. You can anticipate this role to focus on team leadership and task delegation, meeting quality and quantity of daily production requirements, and lean management activities within your scope of the warehouse. successful applicant will be able to:

• Perform quality work within deadlines
• Interact and communicate professionally with internal and external customer groups
• Prioritize daily tasks in consideration to team’s daily and long-term strategic goals
• Assist with employee management and talent development

Essential Job Functions

• Manage warehouse crew and their daily production activities in accordance with CDS’ SOPs under the direction of the Operations Manager.
• Follow, support and set standards, goals and processes.
• Assist in the Standardization of processes and Audit procedures.
• Assist in the individual review process for direct reports.
• Assist in the verbal and written discipline process of subordinates.
• Assist and support your teams needs for staffing. This includes interviewing potential. candidates and making hiring decisions.
• Set up training and a training outline for employee onboarding.
• Assist and support Forklift and equipment training and certification.
• Punctual and good attendance is a requirement of this position
• Perform operation checks and daily inspection on equipment before use
• Pull runs, in accordance with pulling SOPs
• Learn and master SOP’s for:
• Pulling runs
• Operating forklifts and ride on jacks, must also pass all certification courses for this equipment when applicable
• Checking runs
• Driver run coordination and reporting
• Double Reach certification and operations, when applicable
• Performing customer will calls and pick ups
• Assist, support and conduct Product handling / documentation certification.
• Manage all new hire onboarding and training processes, timelines and goals.
• Audit the training processes and training documentation.
• Develop team knowledge surrounding Lean Six Sigma initiatives.
• Coach and develop direct reports SOP knowledge and leadership competencies.
• Assist in keeping the inbound calendar updated.
• Collaborate with internal departments, ensure that paperwork is completed and provided with in an appropriate time frame
• Check and ensure that all inbound paperwork has been properly completed and items have been tagged and located before the paperwork is turned into Customer service.
• Assist in customer will calls when needed.
• Assist in audit processes and procedures
• Collect and document measure metrics.
• Assist and support product returns and re-receive processes.
• Lead your team in daily team meetings.
• Participate and support Gemba walks with warehouse teams no less than weekly.
• Complete spreadsheets and track performance data for your crew.
• Manage facility cleanliness, safety, and security.
• Complete other value-added projects as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or GED
• 1-2 years of warehousing experience.
• Highly proficient with RF Scanners
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong communication and level of professionalism when speaking with co-workers.
• We are looking for an individual who works two steps ahead, identifying and eliminating roadblocks long before they appear on the horizon.
• Experienced on the double electric pallet jack
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a leadership role
• Literacy – English language
• Ability to pass certification courses for essential warehouse equipment for the job.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-3 Years of warehousing/order pulling experience.
• 1 years of team lead/leadership experience.
• Experience receiving and palletizing bulk product.
• Experience working for a last mile delivery company.
• Experience on a double reach truck.
• Experience on a Forklift
• Experience on an Electric Pallet Jack

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position will be responsible for the management of Break Bulk employees. This position will manage the daily production, training, and personnel management, including but not limited to; coaching, development, and disciplinary actions.

Competencies

• Warehouse Operations
• Communication
• Leadership
• Interpersonal Relationship Management
• Critical Problem Solving
• High Attention to Detail
• Sense of Urgency

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, lift or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50-100 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel

• No travel is expected for this position.

Other Duties

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional warehouse environment. This role routinely uses forklifts, double electric pallet jacks, manual pallet jacks, handcarts, key racks, pallets, box cutters, RF scanners, and label printers.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leetsdale, PA 15056: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Warehouse experience: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $20