Warehouse Lead

Job Summary: The Warehouse Lead is responsible for coordinating and overseeing daily warehouse activities to ensure the efficient, safe, and accurate handling of materials, components, finished goods, and customer shipments. This position serves as the primary point of coordination for warehouse personnel and supports the Warehouse Supervisor or Operations Manager in maintaining inventory accuracy, meeting shipping schedules, optimizing material flow, and ensuring compliance with company procedures and customer requirements. Provides hands on operational leadership, assigns daily tasks, monitors workflow, and helps resolve issues related to receiving, storage, picking, staging, production material replenishment, and shipping. The position also promotes a clean, organized, and safe working environment while supporting continuous improvement initiatives. Duties/Responsibilities . Coordinate daily warehouse operations based on shipping schedules, production requirements, receiving priorities, and customer demand. · Work with local LPA to generate Shipping Plans accordingly. · Assign tasks, balance workloads, and provide direction to warehouse associates to ensure operational efficiency and timely completion of activities. · Oversee receiving, storage, picking, staging, packing, loading, and shipping of materials and finished goods. · Coordinate material movement between warehouse locations and production areas to support operational continuity. · Ensure accurate and timely ERP or any other Inventory Management System transactions for receipts, transfers, inventory movements, and shipments. · Support cycle counts, physical inventories, and investigations of inventory discrepancies, missing materials, and system errors. · Ensure proper material identification, labeling, storage, traceability, and FIFO compliance, as applicable. . Verify incoming materials against purchase orders and shipping documentation, reporting discrepancies, damage, and quality concerns. · Ensure customer orders are accurately picked, packaged, documented, and loaded according to shipping requirements. · Coordinate with Logistics, Quality, Production, and Customer Service, to resolve material issues and support customer deliveries on time. · Train and support warehouse associates, monitor productivity and work quality, and identify staffing or training needs for management. · Enforce company safety procedures and applicable OSHA requirements, including safe equipment operation, material stacking, and warehouse organization. · Maintain housekeeping and 5S standards, ensuring aisles, storage areas, equipment, and workspaces remain safe and organized. · Follow established work instructions, standard operating procedures, customer specific requirements, and applicable ISO 9001 procedures. · Ensure nonconforming materials are properly identified and segregated, and prevent incorrect, damaged, or unauthorized products from being shipped. · Communicate operational status, inventory shortages, shipping risks, and unresolved issues to management. · Monitor warehouse performance and recommend improvements to inventory accuracy, material handling, productivity, and shipping efficiency. · Participate in root cause analysis, corrective actions, Lean initiatives, and continuous improvement activities. · Maintain an organized warehouse layout that supports efficient material movement and accessibility. · Safety first attitude and approach to work every day, at all times. · Organization skills · Strong problem solving and decision making skills. · Effective communication and teamwork abilities · Strong understanding of logistics and supply chain management principles. · Ability to learn manufacturing processes and procedures. · Basic mechanical aptitude. · Ability to follow written and verbal ins…

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