Warehouse professionals with forklift experience and inventory management skills will find this leadership role in a food distribution environment.
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Original posting from Mom's Meals via Lever
The Warehouse Lead utilizes systematic approaches to loading / unloading shipments, ensuring shipments are correct, material handling, maintaining an accurate physical inventory, and assisting with maintaining an organized and safe warehouse. The Warehouse Lead position is also responsible for providing direction, training, and leadership for other warehouse associates, as well as the runners.
Shift Schedule
Friday - Sunday
3:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to:
- Responsible for shipping and receiving, material handling and movement, storage, and tracking of raw and finished products and other components into and through the warehouse and freezer
- Verifies incoming and outgoing quantities and description of materials
- Receive trucks, load and unload material within warehouse and freezer
- Scan product in and out to proper location
- Report any defects, damage, or discrepancies. Identify damaged, lost, or missing materials and notify Lead/Supervisor immediately
- Ensure First In/First Out practices maintained
- Operate forklift, scanners, pallet jack, ladders, scissor lift, and other warehouse equipment
- Check product in from suppliers and cold storage and input into AX inventory system appropriately
- Accurately load trucks with outbound products while correctly completing Bill of Lading
- Pull and slack frozen product to be used on packaging line
- Pick and deliver packaging items to production areas as needed
- Monitor truck temps per our SOPs
- Maintain clean, organized, and safe work area
- Help maintain proper warehouse security
- Provide direction, leadership, and training for other warehouse associates, as well as runners and other ERP system users
- Assist in cycle counting when necessary
- Be willing to learn other duties involving the ERP system as well as work cross-functionally to support other departments.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Previous forklift and scanning experience
- Candidate will obtain Mom's Meals forklift certification upon hire
- Ability to work quickly and safely
- Initiative and ability to work with little supervision
- General understanding of inventory management
- Good reading comprehension, basic math & reasoning skills, and basic data entry ability
- Good time management and prioritization skills
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Comprehensive understanding of computer inventory system, scanners, and inventory systems.
- Ability to direct, lead, and train teammates
- Must be able to stay until end of shift
- Ability to facilitate processes and projects as needed
- Be the point person for the shift for warehouse and inventory inquiries
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- 2 years of warehouse, shipping/receiving, or material handling experience
- Previous experience working in a manufacturing and/or food distribution industry
Physical Requirements:
- Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
- Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen.
- Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Able to perform repetitive movements
- Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)
Company Overview
Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide since 1999. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.
EEO
Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.
Source: Mom's Meals careers (Lever)