Warehouse Team Lead II

Position Summary: The Warehouse Team Lead II serves as a key leader within the warehouse, guiding and supporting a team of 3-5 warehouse associates. This role is crucial in driving continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring high-quality output, and maintaining a safe and efficient work environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Able to understand Standardized Work for labor, equipment, and material and use it to achieve team safety, productivity, quality, and delivery targets.
• Practical knowledge of equipment, both technical and manual, needed to perform job duties, an experienced problem solver with an understanding of escalation procedures.
• Able to quickly master all team skills and train those skills to individual team members.
• Continually assesses the work environment for safety and problems.
• Helps maintain healthy communication between management and the team.
• A high level of responsibility, integrity, discipline, positive attitude, strong work ethic, and team spirit.
• Able and willing to take direction, accept coaching, and work in a team environment.
• The potential to grow into a supervisory-level position.
• Responsible for inventory qty reporting in the appropriate slot throughout the standard work process.
• Ability to coordinate with other departments, CSM (client service manager), and all levels of management using Google Tracker and Calendar.
• Monitor shipments of products, verify proper documentation, maintain shipment records, report, and solve discrepancies.
• Managing inventory control by ensuring the shipments are completed on time for pre-loading, running IOH (inventory on hand) reports, daily approved-stock reports, and investigating reasons thereof.
• Lead and conduct inventory, cycle counts, monthly audits, research, and resolve all inventory discrepancies to ensure accuracy.
• Able to run a successful Gemba Walk
• Able to conduct NCR investigation and complete investigation reports.
• Able to prepare and complete Injury Investigation Reports.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• 1-3 years of experience in a warehouse environment.
• Prior experience in a supervisory role is a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Strong mathematical skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Ability to accurately calculate quantities and perform basic inventory functions.
• Ability to analyze situations, identify problems, and develop effective solutions.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficiency in using the Swiss American ERP system, including handheld scanner operation.
• Familiarity with warehouse management software (WMS) is a plus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to walk. The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.  Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.