Basic Function
Provide hands on leadership throughout the warehouse operation by training, monitoring, and evaluating assigned personnel. Actively leads the receiving, warehousing, and shipping of product in a manner consistent with company service and cost objectives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensures the appropriate use of safety devices and equipment, general housekeeping, and maintains a constant vigilance for hazardous conditions and practices.
1. Active participant/representative on facility safety committee.
2. Active participant in BBS safety audits
- Assist the Warehouse Manager in applying skills, knowledge, experience, available manpower, and equipment to obtain the most favorable cost and quality of workmanship.
- Ensures the quality and accuracy of product in accordance to completion of orders.
- Develop and assist in the training and maintaining of an efficient work force in accordance with job requirements, work levels and schedules.
- Possesses a thorough understanding of SAP and applications that are associated with the warehouse.
- Able to manage inventory flows in a complex, multi site warehouse environment.
Essential Accountabilities
- Organizes and assigns work in such a way that both quality and productivity are optimized.
- Assist Warehouse Manager./inventory coordinator with ensuring accuracy of inventory and inventory management.
- Trains assigned personnel to accurately and consistently use warehouse management systems (SAP) with the help of Inventory Coordinator.
- Trains assigned personnel in safe and efficient use of material handling equipment, as well as charging and watering procedures to ensure maximization of battery charge/life.
- Knowledge/ability to create order download/good issue shipments.
- Identify and communicate warranted improvements to both systems and processes.
- Assist in ensuring all available options are exercised in product substitutions/repack to avoid customer backorders.
- Ensure a smooth shift transition within a multi-shift operation.
- Schedules the warehouse team members to meet the demands of the seasons and facility.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- A personal values system encompassing a strong work ethic, integrity, stability, sense of fair play, urgency, and a desire and willingness to assume responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to interact across functions and with co-workers on a professional level.
- Demonstrate flexibility to adjust to sudden work changes and customer demands.
- Seeks opportunity to improve warehouse operations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Hands-on, pragmatic working style.
- Good planning, organization and prioritizing skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision.
- Possesses a thorough understanding of SAP and applications that are associated with the warehouse preferred.