Shipping and Receiving Lead

Essential Job Functions - Responsibilities


* Overseeing the receiving and outbound shipping department


* Ensuring that all incoming packages, materials, products, and supplies are properly inspected, stored, and accounted for


* Ensuring that outgoing shipments are prepared and delivered on time


* Providing work assignments of their staff daily


* Hiring and training new and existing employees on the techniques and procedures used in completing work assignments


* Operating pallet jacks, lift trucks, and any other equipment to move parts to their proper locations and load and unload steel trucks whenever necessary


* Verifying materials against receiving documents, noting, and reporting discrepancies and obvious damages, and arriving and dispatching the cargo in a tracking software


* Performing shipping duties within FedEx, UPS and DHL software


* Oversee daily backlog of shipments within the company ERP system and adjust workload accordingly


* Perform weekly, monthly and quarterly KPIs and metrics for the department and report to manager


* Lead cycle counting, 5S for weekly and monthly requirements


* Approve timecards for shipping and receiving team members, approve time off requests


* Managing safe work practices and enforcing company EHSE and HR policies and adhering self and employees to PPE related to the workplace


* Upholding Alpha Values of Safety, Growth, Customer Success, Innovation, One Alpha,

Education - Experience - Qualifications


* High school diploma required, Associates preferred but not required


* Attention to safety, quality and on time delivery of goods and services.


* Experience with ERP systems


* 3-6 years previous shipping and receiving along with leading or supervising 1-2 years required.


* Qualified/certified forklift driver, trainer certification preferred.


* Intermediate to Advanced PC, Microsoft Office skills required.


* Demonstrated effective communication skills written oral and inter-personal skills.


* Demonstrated ability to multi-task, handling frequent interruptions and shifting priorities.


* Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.


* Be organized and efficient.


* Prior supervisory or team lead experience


* Ability to communicate fluently in English.


* Demonstrated self-motivation and self-discipline traits.


* Have a positive and flexible attitude.


* Excellent interpersonal skills needed to deal with a wide range of individuals.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

A good level of fitness is required.

This position requires frequent standing, walking, stooping, and kneeling.

There is often lift...