Warehouse Lead

Are you ready to join a Global Leader in the Freight Forwarding and Contract Logistics field, who knows their employees are their greatest strength?

LOGISTEED-America is on a mission to deliver high-quality transportation and logistics services and help make the world a better place for generations to come. We are looking for a Warehouse Lead to join us on this mission!

Location:

Elk Grove Village, IL

WHO WE ARE:

Founded in 1950, LOGISTEED-America is part of a global network of companies providing transportation and logistics services including ocean & air freight transport, contract logistics, customs brokerage, supply chain management, and more.

Summary

The Warehouse Lead reports to the LOGISTEED America, Inc. Operations Manager. This position requires excellent leadership skills along with the ability to monitor workflow, provide focus on inventory control and customer service. Additionally, - including but not limited to:

* Must be able to communicate and interact with Company Management Team and Customers in a productive and professional manner

* Assist supervisor in leading daily operations team resulting in successful results that are reflected in established key performance indicators (KPIs).

* Oversee daily inbound receiving process from sorting, inspection and stocking to shelf

* Be the point of contact for RGA/returns and complete the process on a daily basis

* Maintain inventory accuracy by established target inventory discrepancy ratio

* Read and comprehend SOP's, work instructions, email and documents; measure and count accurately; write legibly

* Follow established procedures and meet or exceed safety, quality and productivity standards

Qualities

* Ethical with sound business judgement

* Possesses a passion to help team members

* Strong customer relations

* Detail-oriented

* Reliable, follows through on commitments

* Strong process and planning orientation

* Goal-oriented, task driven

* Enjoys being part of a team as well as leading one

* Balances team's needs with goals of organization

* Outstanding written, verbal, presentation, and organization communication skills

Essential Duties & Functional Responsibilities Required

Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities

The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

* Perform tasks safely

* Ensure area housekeeping requirements are met

* Abide by all Federal, State, Local safety regulations and OSHA rules and LOGISTEED America, Inc. safety practices

* Meet established procedures and productivity, safety, and quality standards

* Meet attendance & punctuality standards

* Communicate both orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner

* Compile, verify, record and process forms and documents

* Ability to use the WMS to plan, allocate and manage the daily orders in the system

* Quality assurance inspection of returned parts

* Can accurately receive and ship material through the WMS

* Can perform system analysis on orders and inventory to eliminate missing shipments

* Ability to set priorities and be able to multi-task with conflicting priorities

* Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers

* Must be able to take direction and adhere to procedures, company policies with the ability to articulate recommendations and ask questions when uncertain

* Monitor inbound, outbound and inventory control operation progress and directs activities to complete daily task

* Assist in physical inventory counts and maintains accuracy by establishing target inventory discrepancy ratio

* Coordinate markdowns, markups, customer returns, value added service (VAS) of products as needed or requested by customer

* Must be knowledgeable in all aspects of the operation and functions and have the ability to assist in compiling, verifying, recording and processing forms and documents

* Ability to multitask administrative and operational duties while staying organized and efficient to effectively support managers, supervisors and team members

* Exhibit professional and sound judgment when confronted with difficult and/or sensitive matters and know when to escalate situations to a supervisor or manager

* Must create a cooperative and harmonious working climate to maximize employee morale and productivity

* Train others in multiple areas of the operations such as scanning, orders, locations, temp, put-away, in-bound, receiving, sort-out load, ship-codes, read plan list and manifest (over or under).

* Must be proficient in the use of scanners and be able to train employees in put-away process and scanner transferring from one location to another as instructed by supervisor or…