Warehouse Team Lead

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General Profile:

As a Warehouse Team Lead, you are pivotal in overseeing daily warehouse operations, ensuring efficient material handling, inventory accuracy, and adherence to safety protocols. Leading a team of material handlers and forklift operators, you coordinate logistics activities, manage documentation, and facilitate training to maintain high performance standards. Your role bridges the gap between warehouse staff and management, fostering effective communication and operational excellence.

Competencies:

• Leadership & Team Management: Demonstrated ability to motivate, guide, and develop warehouse personnel, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
• Operational Planning: Skilled in organizing, prioritizing, and delegating tasks to optimize workflow and meet operational targets
• Communication: Effective in conveying information clearly and concisely to team members and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in operating and overseeing the use of material handling equipment (MHE), including forklifts, and ensuring compliance with safety standards
• Quality Assurance: Capable of identifying product defects and implementing standard inspection procedures to maintain quality standards
• Attention to Detail: Meticulous in monitoring operations to ensure accuracy in inventory management and order fulfillment
• Safety Compliance: Committed to enforcing safety protocols and maintaining a safe working environment in accordance with OSHA and company-specific regulations
• Time Management: Adept at managing time effectively to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and handle multiple responsibilities

Skills:

• Advanced Leadership, experience in leading teams, providing direction, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
• Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), proficient in utilizing WMS, TMS, YMS, and ERP systems for inventory tracking, order processing, and logistics coordination
• Computer Literacy, competent in using basic computer applications for reporting, communication, and data analysis
• RF Scanner Operation, skilled in using radio frequency scanners for accurate inventory and order processing
• Material Handling Equipment Knowledge, understanding of various MHE types and their capabilities, ensuring proper usage and maintenance
• Supplier Communication, ability to negotiate and coordinate with contractors and suppliers to promote efficient operations

Accountabilities:

• Safety Enforcement, ensure all team members adhere to safety policies, procedures, and regulations, conducting regular assessments and managing warehouse equipment safety
• Operational Efficiency, oversee daily activities of warehouse personnel, ensuring goals for order fulfillment, receiving, put-away, and shipping are met or exceeded
• Inventory Management, monitor inventory levels, ensuring accurate receiving, storing, picking, and shipping processes to maintain inventory accuracy
• Shift Coordination, provide comprehensive handovers to incoming shift leaders, communicating key information and ongoing issues to ensure continuity
• Cross-Functional Collaboration, facilitate effective communication and collaboration with departments such as production, quality control, transportation, and customer service
• Performance Reporting, deliver regular updates and reports on shift performance, issues, and achievements to warehouse management

Qualifications & Experience:

• 2+ Years in warehouse operations, with demonstrated leadership experience preferred
• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Forklift Operation certifications and familiarity with safety regulations are plus
• Computers skills

Compensation & Benefits: 

• Expected Hiring Hourly Rate:  $32.40   (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)  
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. 
• Please visit our "Total Rewards" page to learn more about Ball’s comprehensive benefits structure.  
• Onsite Work Environment: This position is based in [add the location here] and requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site. Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.    

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role.  

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic.  

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

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• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visa, now or in the future, for this job opening.

* This position will be posted internally for a minimum of 5 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

No agencies please. 

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