Material Team Lead - Masterack

Location: 8300 NE Underground Dr.

Pillar 250
Kansas City MO 64161

New!! $1,400.00 SIGN-ON BONUS

20. + depends on the experience.

Department: Operations

Reports to: Director of Materials

Job Summary: Leads the incoming, storage, and delivery of materials throughout the warehouse and production lines. This role will motivate, measure, maintain, and sustain the performance of warehouse material handlers to ensure that physical material flow is scanned in JDE. Ensures the safety within the warehouse by proper storage of material.

Essential Functions:

• Leads a team of Material Handlers with daily team meetings ensuring that goals are communicated.
• Perform both the physical inter-departmental transport of materials in the warehouse and in JDE as they occur.
• Creates and sustains the "Move It, Move It" culture to build confidence that what is physically moved in the warehouse is trusted as entered into JDE.
• Avoid all negative inventory by detecting through the receipt of the negative inventory location report. Fixing the defect by confirmation that material is both transferred correctly from location to location and as production reported to the Work Order in JDE.
• Drive the staging, in a timely manner, of necessary materials to both keep production lines running and more specifically by builds to optimize performance of complete and on time deliveries.
• Communicates any issues or delays in the staging pick of production which will impact shipments so that additional planning can be set.
• Communicate inventory discrepancies quickly and effectively.
• Increase inventory accuracy by receiving the daily rotating cycle count by location and P/N's, distributing amongst designated Counters/Material Handlers, and receipt back of counts forwarding along to Materials Management.
• Perform Audits of inventory accuracy to ensure Material Handlers are doing transfers.
• Identify any and all material in the warehouse which has been incorrectly stored in an unsafe condition and fix the problem immediately.
• Drive the consolidation of multiple locations across the warehouse of the same parts both physically and in JDE.
• Avoid JDE inventory within bulk locations including S.STOCK (historically used as floor location, however, empty rack locations are available and must be utilized)
• Provide proper coaching to motivate the workforce and increase retention.
• Identify a systematic approach of signing in/out scan guns to Material Handlers daily to set accountability of who is moving what material with what timing.
• Conduct regular training sessions to ensure all employees are properly trained in their functions.
• Cross-training to ensure backups are in place.
• Provide feedback for warehouse layout and optimize storage capacity to build the Visual Plant.
• Lead warehouse sanitation/5S activities.

Job Skills:

• Ability to work and communicate effectively, written and verbal, with Operations team on and off the floor safely.
• Ability to handle job-related matters in a professional, diplomatic, and confidential manner.
• Must have strong self-initiative.
• Must have strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Requires effective interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to perform basic math calculations.
• Ability to willingly participate in a team environment to achieve departmental and organizational goals and objectives. Ability to work with established deadlines.

• Ability to operate a forklift (sitting & standing )

Qualifications:

• Experience in a warehousing, distribution or shipping environment
• Prior experience leading people in a fast-paced distribution environment.

• Must have good communication skills.

• Strong leadership, motivational, and team-building skills
• Ability to resolve crisis and make quick decisions.

• Forklift license a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT: 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Frequent sitting to perform computer activities. Frequent walking and standing to assess warehouse space management.
• Occasional climbing, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling in order to examine raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.
• Occasional lifting, moving, carrying, pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds without assistance. Over 50 pounds with assistance is provided.
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office equipment or computers.
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.

BENEFITS PROGRAM:

Insurance and 401K benefits are available the 1st of the month after ONLY 30 days of service and include:

Three options for Health Insurance including an option with an H.S.A. that comes with an employer contribution.

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Paid Time OFF (PTO), and 10 paid holidays.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long- and Short-Term Disability at no cost to the employee
• Voluntary Supplemental Life and AD&D options
• Life Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Plan with an employer match
• $175.00 allowance towards industrial steel toed shoes given

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