AM Lead Warehouse Worker - Charlotte, NC

Empire Distributors•Pineville, NC

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Empire Distributors Inc, a leading beverage distributor, is seeking an AM Lead Warehouse Associate for their Charlotte, NC location. This role offers excellent benefits, competitive wages, and opportunities for growth. The position involves planning and controlling daily work assignments, leading a team, replenishing inventory, ensuring equipment readiness, managing returns, operating forklifts for loading/unloading, conveying materials, sorting and storing items, assembling customer orders, marking materials, maintaining warehouse cleanliness, submitting reports, and working with all company products. The company is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace, committed to making employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Requirements

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Forklift Certification
Some knowledge of warehouse software as well as basic Windows functions, i.e. WCS, SAP, KEA, Excel, and Word.

Responsibilities

Plans and controls the daily flow of work assignments to include rotation of personnel to dictated areas of operation
Lead to work ratio expectancy of 30 to 70%
Replenishes inventory lines for the evening warehouse persons
Ensures daily pre-trip inspections are completed for each lift
Monitors and controls the flow of returns and also assists inventory control in root cause analysis
Operates forklift in the process of loading and unloading tractor trailers
Conveys materials and items from receiving or production areas to storage or to other designated areas
Sorts and places materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code
Sorts and stores perishable goods in refrigerated rooms
Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves, or conveys orders to packing station or shipping department
Operates forklifts to transport received and stored items
Marks materials with identifying information
Ensures the warehouse is cleaned and maintained daily
Submits End of Day report to Management
Willing and able to work with all products that may be ordered by our customers
Other duties as assigned by the Operations Manager and/or AM Management team