Warehouse Team Member - Lead
Full Time - 1st Shift
(Availability M-F) Are you looking for a great place to work and a career that will allow you to have a healthy work/life balance? Join our team at Natural Choice Foods, a family-owned company servicing wholesale and retail stores throughout the Midwest.
Natural Choice Foods Values:
- Customer Focused
- Act with a Sense of Urgency
- Quality Focused
- Communication
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Integrity
Here are just some of what NCF has to offer:
- We offer competitive pay
- Health, dental, and vision coverage available your first day of employment
- Life insurance
- 401(k) available at 6 months, including a company match
- Incentive Plan
- PTO
- Weekly pay
- Employee discounts
Job Summary:
Responsible for picking product orders for outgoing shipments as well as receiving and moving product. Responsible for all receiving and invoicing for inbound and outbound shipments. This position also requires cleaning, maintenance of space, and inventory control.
Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Load truck routes and semi-trailers with a forklift and/or pallet jack, moving product into and out of the warehouse
- Move product to storage areas using the proper equipment
- Stack and store product in appropriate areas according to established sequences and procedures
- Review orders for shipments and assemble the correct products to be shipped
- Count and verify deliveries and shipments
- Apply lot holds as needed
- Enter lot locations into the system
- Label Pallets according to warehouse policy
- Load and organize delivery into storage
- Track and communicate trailer status and contents
- Maintain cleanliness in area
- Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
- Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
- Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations
- Be detail-oriented, honest, direct and able to handle more than one task at a time while managing one’s time effectively and maintaining a strong work ethic
- Follows all Natural Choice Foods, Inc. policies and procedures
- Document all transfers, shipments, and movements
- Ensure items are stored in an orderly and accessible manner
- Conducts accurate cycle counting of inventory
- Check equipment to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order
- Load and unload trailer with mechanical freight handling equipment as required
- Regular Attendance required
Competencies:
- Customer Engagement
- Action Oriented
- Results Focused
- Communication
- Collaboration
Supervisory Responsibility:
This position does not have supervisory responsibility.
Work Environment:
The work is generally performed in a freezer and cooler with conditions anywhere from -10 to -15 degrees. (Proper gear supplied by Natural Choice Foods)
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.
Occasional sedentary (up to 10 pounds), light to medium (up to 50 pounds), and occasional heavy (up to 100 pounds, with assistance) lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential tasks.
Required Educational Skills and Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Hi-Lo/Forklift license
- Ability to speak, write, read and follow instructions, correspondence, and memorandums
- Ability to interact professionally with diverse company employees and customers/suppliers in a friendly and efficient manner
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to management and other employees of the organization
- Ability to communicate effectively with truck drivers about deliveries and returns
- Communicate with Sales regarding orders and trucking logistics
- Preferred Educational Skills and Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing Principles and Practices
- Safety Management
PLEASE NOTE: This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and the Company reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed as circumstances change.
