Assistant Warehouse Team Lead

Warehouse Assistant Team Lead

Manufacturing Support

Job Description Revised: October 2018

Reports To: Warehouse Supervisor

Department: Warehouse

Location: Carlsbad, CA

Pay Status: Non-Exempt

Job Summary

The Team Leader is responsible for overseeing warehouse projects, completion of daily tasks, coordinating work flow and managing the day-to-day operations of their assigned group, ensuring everyone is performing as required. Must complete all applicable SOP and QA trainings.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities (not restrictive)

• Warehouse Manufacturing Support requirements completed (limited paperwork duties)
• Warehouse Picker requirements completed (limited paperwork duties)
• Warehouse Shipping and Receiving requirements completed (limited paperwork duties
• Trouble shoot blends to manufacturing
• Effectively lead warehouse staff
• Plan shift - man power, objectives
• Train Staff
• Complete root cause analysis as requested
• Assist the team to accomplish the daily tasks.
• Maintain team focused on daily objectives
• Perform weekly safety/GMP warehouse audits and implement corrective actions
• Audit, enforce and promote warehouse safety rules and procedures
• Deliver SOP, Safety, and heavy equipment training as per training matrix
• Monitor, enforce and update standard operating procedures.
• Operate all types of heavy equipment
• Monitor warehouse storage and housekeeping status.
• Coordinate workflow to accomplish overall business objectives.
• Segregate the warehouse full pick list by blending date.
• Update warehouse production board.
• Coordinate and ensure completion of warehouse full pick list one day prior to blend date.
• Assist in picking and verifying items for blending.
• Assist with inverting, wrapping and put-away.
• Monitor packaging, pallets and gowning inventory levels in a weekly basis to avoiding out-of-stock situations.
• Monitor and schedule swaps for trash compactor and recycling bins.
• Move in or remove items from GNWR.
• Coordinate the disposal of overages and deficient materials.
• Reply to e-mails and radio calls in a timely and professional manner.
• Efficiently execute SAP transactions related to product movement, searching, and correcting inventory issues.
• Monitor and correct issue in the Warehouse Management section in SAP
• Issue, submit and finalize MDR's related to damage.
• Perform driving duties as needed.
• Print and input cycle counts as needed
• Assist and load carriers
• Bin-to-bin inbound freight
• Regular Attendance is an essential function of this position.
• Following and living Glanbia values: Showing Respect, Winning Together, Finding a Better Way, Performance Matters, and Customers Champion.

Additional Functions

• Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team.
• Assist the team to accomplish the daily tasks.
• Coordinate workflow to accomplish overall business objectives.
• Update warehouse production board.
• Coordinate and ensure completion of warehouse full pick list one day prior to blend date.
• Reply to e-mails and radio calls in a timely and professional manner.
• Work flexible hours to include overtime and weekends when needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities (If relevant)

• Help train and develop employees.
• Facilitate problem solving and collaboration.
• Intervene when necessary to aid the group in resolving issues.
• Motivate and inspire team members.
• Facilitate audits, tours and onboarding training.
• Recognize and celebrate team and team member's accomplishments and exceptional performance.
• Provide daily status reports to manager.
• Support the manager by assisting the monitoring of attendance/tardiness and provide input for performance appraisals of warehouse employees.
• Cover other shifts (1st, 2nd, 3rd) as needed.

Performance Indicators

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• Promote and enforce to achieve zero recordable injuries in the warehouse.
• Achieve the yearly assigned objective for accuracy .
• Observe and organize workflow to achieve high efficiency to meet yearly assigned objective.
• Achieve the yearly assigned objective for inventory accuracy

Qualification & Experience Requirements

Education, Training:

• High School Diploma or GED Preferred

Experience Required:

• 2+ years of previous warehouse experience
• Clean DMV record with valid driver's license
• 1-2 years of Warehouse Assistant II role experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Ability to lift 25kg containers consistently.
• Standup reach and sit-down forklift experience required.
• Leadership and motivational skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Clear communication skills - written and verbal. Coordinates communications, meetings, and activities among multiple groups or organizations.
• Ability to work with amino acids, vitamins and fine chemicals in powder and liquid form.
• Ability to work with allergen products (peanuts, soy, dairy, etc.)
• Must be able to work in a team environment & possess team-based problem solving skills.
• Be able to effectively plan, organize, prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environments.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of personnel with the utmost professionalism.
• Ability to work in fast paced deadline orientated environment
• Ability to follow direction and work with S.O.P.'s.
• Experience and ability to operate a stand-up and sit-down forklift.
• Decision-making and analytical skills
• Must be detail orientated and able to read words and numbers.
• Must be results focused and oriented toward accomplishment of team goals.
• Team player that leads by example.
• Ability to handle multiple, rapidly changing and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision while remaining productive at all times.
• Ability to stay positive and calm in difficult and/or trying circumstances.

Language, Computer & Numeracy:

• Proficiency in spoken and written English
• Strong SAP and MRP systems knowledge
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and SharePoint

Typical Physical Activity

Physical Demands

• Regularly involves lifting 50lbs consistently.
• Regularly involves talking or listening, sitting, and the use of hands and fingers.
• Regularly involves going up and down stairs.
• Frequently involves reaching with hands and arms, standing and walking.
• Occasionally involves crouching, stooping, kneeling and/or climbing or balancing.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, works with the fingers, and perceives attributes of objects and materials.
• Involves moderate physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of a primarily administrative nature.
• Should be able to identify and distinguish colors, see clearly at 20 inches or closer and 20 feet or more, observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point, judge distances and spatial relationships, and adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.

Typical Environmental Conditions

• May be exposed to moderate noise levels (i.e. office equipment, light traffic).
• May be exposed to moderate to high noise levels (i.e. production equipment, forklifts, heavy traffic).
• May be exposed to humidity, intense heat and cold, outdoor weather conditions, and fumes and toxic chemicals.
• May work in areas with mechanical moving parts, above ground with risk of fall, or areas with risk of electrical shock.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.