VMPE Shiploose Team Lead

VMPE Shiploose Team Lead

Location: Lafayette, IN (1627 Veterans Memorial Pkwy E, Lafayette, IN 47905)

Employment type: Full-time

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Shift: 1st Shift 6:30am to 2:30pm, Monday - Friday

Attendance bonus: Potential monthly $200

Relocation assistance: Not offered

Language: Candidates must be able to read, write and conduct business in English

Overtime: Ability to work overtime when required

• Operate heavy equipment including sit‑down forklifts, reach trucks, order pickers, and overhead hoists. Perform material handling and warehousing functions such as unloading, sorting, putting away, picking, packing and shipping parts, materials and supplies.
• Lead meetings with multifunctional team to track performance and drive results guiding daily priorities and change management.
• Interface with customers and coordinate voice of customer to logistics team to improve processes and lead investigations on customer reported defects, including internal logistics customers.
• Coordinate with logistics and external carriers to set up expedited shipments and oversee management of zones through targeting aged inventory, leading reconciliation and investigating root cause.
• Regularly lead problem‑solving events to drive continuous improvement and continuously manage training matrix to ensure team flexibility.
• Accountable for tracking quality metrics and meeting safety, quality, velocity and cost goals and demonstrating safety excellence and enforcing safety policies and procedures.
• Physical requirements:
  
  lift up to 35 pounds individually, or up to 70 pounds as a team; work in an environment with frequent temperature changes; work at heights up to 30 feet; push/pull product up to 50 pounds for intervals of 10-15 minutes; climb on and off order picker, reach truck and/or sit‑down forklifts multiple times per day; walk, squat and bend over for intervals of 15-30 minutes;
  
  stand up to 8+ hours per day on concrete floor; climb up and down ladders of 6 feet with handrails; work in an environment with noise levels averaging up to 85 db per 8 hours.

• Safety:
  Conduct daily maintenance and keep safety logs on equipment; inspect working environment to promote a safe work area; use required PPE; speak up if safety concerns arise.
• Warehouse Management:
  Direct, lead, and perform basic warehousing activities such as receiving, putting away, picking, packing and shipping merchandise; maintain inventory records; minimize bottlenecks and delays; train and assist with problem solving using real‑time inventory software.
• Customer Service Management:
  Understand service organization values; satisfy customers; keep the customer as focal point of team activity.
• Coaching Others:
  Apply coaching, observe practice, offer constructive feedback, suggest improvements, create skill‑practice opportunities; come to work with a positive attitude.
• Effective Communications:
  Use verbal and non‑verbal communication to receive direction, share ideas and needs; demonstrate empathy and assertiveness; maintain focus on topic; lead improvement dialogue.

All eligible candidates must pass the following pre‑employment screenings before they can be hired to Caterpillar:

• Background Screening
• Drug Screening
• Post‑Offer Medical Questionnaire – clearance from Corporate Medical

• Starting wage $23.35 per hour (additional night shift premium for off shifts); overtime opportunities paid at time and a half (some may be mandatory).
• Medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits starting day 1; 6% company match for 401k; annual increases based on performance; annual bonus potential; time off (vacation & PTO) and paid holidays.
• Employee Assistance Programs; college tuition assistance after 1 year; safety‑focused workplace; opportunities for training and upward movement within Caterpillar.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
• 401(k) savings plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Health Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• Career Development
• Incentive bonus
• Disabi…