Assistant Supervisor

Oregon Tool • Kansas City, KS

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Supervisor supports postponement and shipping functions at Oregon Tool’s NADC, helping maintain safety, quality, and productivity through knowledge of company systems. The role supports team members in meeting daily goals, solving problems, preventing issues, and sustaining employee engagement. It also helps supervisors achieve department and company goals, including entering daily picking numbers and audit lines, while meeting work schedules and deadlines.

The position may involve planning and completing shipping tasks with a supervisor; auditing, consolidation, hand picking, and order picking using a Reach Truck or Cherry Picker; emptying trash bins; and moving product. The Assistant Supervisor provides team-member training as needed, coordinates priorities and workflow across shifts, and maintains clear communication and documentation. Ongoing duties include maintaining clean work areas and following safety procedures, including required personal protective equipment and safe material-handling and equipment practices.

Requirements

• High school diploma or nationally recognized, regionally accredited equivalent required.
• Reach Truck and Cherry Picker experience required.
• Ability to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional, and quality manner.
• Analytical problem-solving ability, including finding relevant information and assessing its importance when making decisions.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly in technical and nontechnical terms.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively as part of a team, including with globally dispersed teams.
• Personal integrity and willingness to set a good example.
• Willingness and ability to learn, seek development, improve skills and knowledge, and learn from others and personal mistakes.
• Initiative to identify and act on opportunities to improve organizational performance.
• Ability to translate goals into action and follow through.

Nice To Haves

• Some warehouse experience is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support postponement and shipping functions, including safety, quality, and productivity.
• Support team members in achieving daily goals, solve problems, proactively prevent problems, and help sustain employee engagement.
• Help supervisors accomplish department and company goals, including entering daily picking numbers and audit lines.
• Work with the supervisor to plan and complete shipping tasks and special requests.
• Perform auditing, consolidation, or hand picking as needed.
• Assist with picking orders using a Reach Truck or Cherry Picker, emptying trash bins, and moving product as needed.
• Seek leadership when questions arise and support leadership by following direction.
• Provide training for team members as needed.
• Coordinate with supervisors and assistant supervisors from previous and next shifts to determine priorities and ensure proper workflow.
• Maintain open communication through conversation and formal and informal documentation.
• Clean work areas and remove trash to designated areas as part of daily duties.
• Identify and report safety hazards and follow evacuation and emergency procedures.
• Apply relevant hazard communication, lockout/tag-out, machine guarding, blood-borne pathogen, and confined-space procedures.
• Use required gloves, safety glasses, steel-toe shoes, and hearing protection.
• Follow proper bending, lifting, pushing, and pulling techniques and motorized-equipment and pedestrian-safety requirements.
• Complete responsibilities in a timely, professional, and quality manner; other duties may be assigned based on business and department needs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits available on day one with no waiting period.
• 401(k) matching: 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 3%, for a 4.5% match on a 6% contribution.
• Retirement Savings Plus Plan.
• Up to 120 hours of vacation during the first year of service.
• Paid holidays.
• One paid Community Involvement Day per calendar year.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Safety shoes reimbursed up to $120 per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED