Stockroom Lead

Company: Danaher
Location: Newark
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

The Stockroom Lead will be responsible for coaching, motivating, and leading the stockroom employees to accomplish the productivity goals for the day and establishing a culture of positive employee relations while ensuring all processes, best practices, and policies are adhered to consistently. This role is a floor position that will require 95% of the workday spent in the stockrooms. Stockroom Lead will assist the material handlers with processing of Production Orders, KANBAN, Receiving, Nonconforming Materials, Cycle Count, OC packaging, and other required tasks as required. The Stockroom Lead will be responsible for FTE and SAW material handlers. This role will require the Lead to create a climate in which people want to do their best; empowers others; invites input from each person; makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people like working for and with.

STOCKROOM LEAD RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides daily direction and leadership to the Stockroom department material handlers.
• Delegating and assigning tasks to the material handlers.
• Organizes and conducts all required training activities for the Stockroom team.
• Accountable for the safe operation of all equipment, including forklifts, hand tools, and other equipment in the operation.
• Ensures all team members are trained properly operate all warehouse equipment.
• Makes recommendations for manpower needs including involvement in recruitment and selection process within the Stockroom department.
• Accountable for staffing, training, motivation and leadership within the stockroom department.
• Assist with the Visual Daily Management
• Ensures that production orders processed are verified against pertinent documentation.
• Establishes and maintains procedures for determining and meeting company and customer commitments by handling materials, providing labor, and effective use of time.
• Recommends and assists in implementing operating procedures and promotes continual improvement within the shipping department.
• On Time Delivery: Responsible for researching missed or late staging of production orders and KANAN requests.
• Transaction Errors: Responsible for researching and identifying root cause.
• Inventory control: Research/reconcile end of day cycle count variances.
• Follows stockroom methods for material using the proper SOP and takes ownership of process documentation creation, changes and periodic review.
• Accountable for ensuring the Stockroom is audit ready 24x7. Readily takes action to implement effective countermeasures and monitor sustainment of audit findings.
• Accountable for ensuring the Stockroom is 5S ready 24x7 and promotes 5S activities to sustain stockroom organization and safety.
• Stockroom Lead will immediately document and report to the Stockroom Supervisor or Manager any situation, incident or problems that directly relate to the efficient, complete, and timely dispatch of any and all assigned work.
• Will ensure all team members are aware of their job duties and will be cross trained as needed.
• At all times, Stockroom Lead will promote a cooperative/teamwork atmosphere toward all employees.
• Must investigate and report all accidents and near misses to the Supervisor or Manager in a timely and efficient manner.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Knowledge of the safety and legal documentation processes for handling related warehouse activities (MSDS, Equipment checklist, BOL).
• Understands Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Documentation Practice (GDP)
• Certified, or ability to be certified on all forklift equipment.
• Experience on operating the company van and bobtail truck.
• Must be able to stand, walk, use hands to handle objects, or reach with hands and arms, climb ladders, kneel, crouch.
• Working understanding of WMS system.
• Excellent leadership and administration skills and abilities.
• Good problem-solving ability
• Strong motivational skills and effectual team building and decision making.
• Ability to effectively manage time, resolve crisis and decision making.
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Ability to efficiently coordinate workings with internal and external workers of the company.
• Ability to work multiple shifts and occasional weekend shifts during peak season.
• Commitment to performance: Demonstrates a commitment to doing it "the right way" with a high level of attention to details and high personal standards of performance.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school degree with 5+ years of experience in stockroom operations and shipping and receiving
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and SAP required.
• Ability to follow guidelines of the Standard Operating Procedures for each operation in the process to conform to the Good Manufacturing Practice and the Food and Drug Administration Regulations.
• Knowledge of and experience with all shipping functions, foreign and domestic, including domestic air bills, international commercial invoices and letters of instruction required.
• Knowledge of and experience with packaging materials used to safely transport all products required.

Physical requirements/abilities:

• Ability to lift to 50 pounds.
• Ability to operate warehouse equipment including but not limited to forklift and pallet jack

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available here.

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