Warehouse Lead

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

 

PEOPLE.   CUSTOMERS.  PRODUCTS.

 

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

 

• Industry-leading health insurance starts on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay $23.00/hr + $1.00 shift differential
• $1500 Signing Bonus
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Personal, Sick and Vacation  
• Clean work environment
• Yearly boot allowance, uniforms and protective eye wear
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

 

About the Job

 

This opportunity is a full-time and benefits-eligible position.

Schedule:

• Monday – Friday – Overtime and weekends required based on business needs.
• 2:00pm – 10:30pm (until finished)
• Backfill - Warehouse Supervisor

 

As a Warehouse Lead at Dawn, you are responsible to provide training and support to the Warehouse Associates. Ensures that team members are actively engaged in work assignments and that assignments are distributed for maximum efficiency.

 

 

What Does It Take to be a Warehouse Lead at Dawn Foods? 

 

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.  

• One year of experience in warehouse or distribution environment (i.e. knowledge of warehouse operations; JBA and WMS systems helpful).
• Requires strong oral, written, and communication skills.
• Must be able to handle many diversified tasks at one time and correctly prioritize conflicting, time sensitive tasks.
• Requires the ability to safely operate a forklift and other heavy warehouse equipment.
• SAP and Microsoft experience is preferred

 

 

 

What You'll Do as a Warehouse Lead

 

• Assist with division of tasks and assignments to ensure an efficient warehouse operation.
• Coordinates and provides training to Warehouse Team Members.
• Participates in safety initiatives and directs team member work in a safe manner.
• Maintain records on the destination, weight, and charges on all incoming and outgoing shipments.
• May create bills of lading, shipment reports, and process all incoming and outgoing shipment records.
• Data entry, generation of import files, labelling, filing, assistance with tracking/expediting freight, freight/broker invoice auditing.
• Ensures accuracy of rate charges by verifying classification of materials with rate schedule.
• May coordinate with carriers to schedule deliveries of shipments, and process driving assignments for pick-up/delivery.
• Monitors pending shipments related to the shipping schedules of purchases issued and updating the traffic record system.
• Confirms information; provides product information; resolves problems; determines method of shipment and ships items, maintains records.
• Information collection may be hand entered into a computer.
• Enters incoming and outgoing freight data, such as destination, weight, route-initiating department, and charges into record system.
• May maintain records of overcharges and for damages to goods in transit and files damage claims with carriers.
• Ability to prioritize daily workload.
• Investigate and provide reports and corrective actions on shipping service errors and complaints
• Safely operates a forklift and other warehouse equipment in order to accomplish the goals of the position.
• Assists the quality team as needed to troubleshoot and fix potential food safety/product safety issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

 

Physical Demands

 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to grasp, move or utilize objects, tools or controls.
• Must be a