Crating Lead
AerotekJob Title: Crating LeadJob Description
The Crating Lead oversees a small team on first shift to safely construct and assemble wooden crates and pallets for industrial materials, ensuring all work meets established standards, documentation requirements, and customer delivery timelines. This role combines hands-on crating and packaging work with team leadership, inventory reconciliation, onsite log
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istics coordination, and adherence to company processes and safety guidelines.
Responsibilities
• Lead and oversee 3 to 5 crating personnel on first shift, assigning tasks and ensuring work is performed safely and in accordance with established procedures.
• Coordinate daily floor operations for warehouse and crating departments, including onsite logistics material management and crate rebuilding/assembly services for industrial crating projects.
• Work closely and professionally with all departments to ensure customer delivery needs are met and hand off communication to respective managers as needed.
• Construct wooden crates and pallets in accordance with company standards and guidelines using hand tools, power tools, and material handling equipment.
• Inspect, measure, and design packaging that complies with company standards, completing all required documentation for each project.
• Utilize hand tools, power tools, and measuring tools to assemble crates and pallets for materials received, following specific requirements for each order.
• Drive and operate lift trucks and overhead cranes after training and recertification, and use other material handling equipment as required.
• Follow all site safety rules, regulations, and procedures, and comply with all guidelines outlined in the employee handbook.
• Ensure compliance with department process workflows and ISPM15 standards, including supporting and maintaining a log book for lumber usage for auditing purposes.
• Instruct, train, and direct personnel to perform duties according to company policy, including training new builders when directed.
• Ensure team members complete all required documentation accurately and on time, and maintain accurate documentation of all work performed.
• Communicate company objectives clearly to personnel and provide a confident, positive point of contact for all members of each project.
• Identify, research, and reconcile inventory discrepancies and support auditing visits pertaining to industrial crating.
• Assess projects proactively before arriving at job sites, review building plans from crate building software (such as BoxCAD and Crate Pro), and communicate or escalate concerns or needs to the supervisor.
• Perform all established building tasks required to construct wooden crates according to BoxCAD/Crate Pro production plans.
• Manage and lead onsite teams at customer locations, escalating and communicating any issues to the respective department manager.
• Support industrial packaging by traveling to offsite locations to repair, rebuild, and build crates as dictated by customer requirements, including projects outside the U.S.
• Provide accurate follow-up information to supervision based on accomplishments or issues encountered, and meet all required deadlines, including accurate reporting and dashboard communications.
• Complete all required periodic reporting, such as SQDC Board updates and housekeeping reports.
• Ensure building security at closing by confirming all access points and outside storage areas are secured and locked prior to arming the security system.
• Perform routine and minor maintenance on equipment and resolve basic warehouse equipment issues or initiate maintenance requests as needed.
• Maintain a clean and orderly work environment in all areas utilized by the department and support housekeeping standards.
• Be flexible and willing to work in any area of the operation as directed by the supervisor or department manager.
• Work nonstandard hours, including off-shift work and weekends when required, and be willing to tr