What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Team Lead position at Swiss American CDMO?
Position Summary: The Warehouse Team Lead serves as a frontline leader for a team of 3-5 warehouse associates. Unlike traditional supervisory roles, this position focuses on supporting team members, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring operational excellence.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Essential Skills and Qualifications:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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. The employee must frequently lift and/or 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.
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
- Properly use and maintain the forklift. Logs out, logs back in, and places forklift on charger when needed. Notify manager when need of repairs to forklift.
- 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 mixed with a positive attitude, a 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
- Other duties may be assigned
Essential Skills and Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
- Minimum of one year of experience in a warehouse environment.
- Prior experience in a supervisory or team lead role is a plus.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Basic mathematical skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Ability to think critically and solve problems effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to follow instructions accurately and efficiently.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in using the Swiss American ERP system, including handheld scanner operation.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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. The employee must frequently lift and/or 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.