Warehouse Lead

Position Summary: The Warehouse Lead supports the Warehouse Supervisor by coordinating daily warehouse activities, assigning work, and working alongside employees to ensure safe, accurate, and timely receiving, storage, inventory, container movement, and shipping operations. This position serves as a primary floor-level resource for employees, drivers, and carriers; reinforces company and customer procedures; helps train team members; monitors workflow and documentation; and promptly escalates safety, quality, service, equipment, inventory, or attendance, or performance concerns to the Warehouse Supervisor. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: · Lead and assist with daily warehouse activities on assigned shifts, including receiving, unloading, inspection, warranting, put away, storage, inventory control, order processing, loading, shipping, transfers, and housekeeping. · Perform container switching, including moving, spotting, and swapping containers and trailers at dock doors and yard locations to support loading, unloading, and customer schedules. · Assign and relay daily work to warehouse employees, conduct shift-start huddles as directed, monitor task progress, and report to the Warehouse Supervisor. · Follow and reinforce company safety rules, equipment procedures, customer requirements, SOPs, and Process Work Instructions. · Assist with inventory accuracy, location control, cycle counts, damage reporting, shipment documentation, and reporting of warehouse discrepancies. · Inspect dock areas, trailers, containers, railcars, storage locations, and material-handling equipment and report safety, quality, capacity, or maintenance concerns. · Maintain accurate operational records, including receiving documents, shipping documents, inspection forms, inventory reports, equipment checklists, and customer-required documentation. · Train and coach warehouse employees on procedures and proper equipment use; report attendance, conduct, or performance concerns to the Warehouse Supervisor. · Respond to carrier and driver questions and escalate service issues and unresolved concerns to the Warehouse Supervisor. · Report shift results to the Warehouse Supervisor, including throughput, inventory, container movements, service issues, safety concerns, and equipment need. Education, knowledge or skill requirements: · Minimum of 1 year of warehouse, distribution, or logistics experience required. · Prior team-lead or supervisory experience in a warehouse environment is preferred. · Some knowledge of the Metals industry, unloading/loading, shipping and receiving, and warranting background preferred. · Working knowledge of receiving, shipping, inventory control, material handling, and warehouse safety requirements. · Experience working alongside hourly warehouse employees: demonstrating procedures, relaying daily work assignments, and maintaining accountability. · Some Microsoft Excel and Outlook are preferred. · Warehouse management systems and inventory reporting is required. · Experience following PWI’s, inspection forms, receiving standards, and training materials required. · Ability to safely operate the yard and material-handling equipment used for container switching, and to obtain any required equipment certifications. · High school diploma or equivalent required · Strong teamwork, organization, communication, problem solving, and time management skills are required. · Leads by example and works alongside warehouse employees to meet customer requirements. · Travels within a 30-mile radius to support other company locations as needed; this position is based in Livonia. · Identifies inventory and operational issues and reports them accurately and promptly. · Communicates professionally with employees, drivers, carriers, vendors, and supervisors. · Uses w…

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