Inventory Team Lead
About The Position
The Team Lead, Warehouse is an advanced skilled role responsible for providing day‑to‑day work leadership and operational support within warehouse and distribution operations. This role performs hands‑on warehouse activities while coordinating daily workflow, prioritizing tasks, reinforcing safety and quality standards, and serving as the first point of escalation for warehouse issues. The Team Lead, Warehouse performs advanced warehouse duties while providing informal leadership and coordination to warehouse associates. The role focuses on shift execution, work assignment, issue resolution, safety reinforcement, and operational readiness, without formal people‑management responsibilities such as performance reviews, hiring, or disciplinary actions. This position typically reports to a Warehouse Supervisor, Distribution Supervisor, or Operations Manager (M1).
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- Typically 4–8 years of experience in warehouse, logistics, or distribution operations
- Prior experience acting as lead associate or senior warehouse resource preferred
- Forklift or powered industrial equipment certification required (site‑dependent)
- Familiarity with WMS, barcode scanning, RF systems, or inventory tools
- Strong understanding of warehouse operations and material flow
- Ability to balance productivity, accuracy, and safety
- Strong attention to detail and organizational discipline
- Effective communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to lead work through influence rather than authority
- Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience.
- May require vocational or technical education
Responsibilities
- Perform advanced picking, packing, shipping, receiving, and material movement tasks
- Support loading, unloading, staging, and inventory control activities
- Ensure order accuracy and adherence to shipping schedules
- Coordinate daily work assignments, priorities, and workflow on assigned shifts
- Serve as first‑level escalation point for operational or system issues
- Reinforce standard operating procedures and productivity expectations
- Support inventory counts, cycle counts, and discrepancy resolution
- Monitor material handling practices to prevent loss, damage, or errors
- Assist with investigation and correction of inventory variances
- Enforce safety policies, equipment operation standards, and PPE use
- Promote safe material handling, forklift operation, and ergonomic practices
- Maintain clean, organized, and hazard‑free work areas
- Ensure accurate transaction processing in WMS or ERP systems
- Validate completion of work orders, shipments, and receipts
- Support documentation of inbound, outbound, and inventory activities
- Troubleshoot workflow bottlenecks, order issues, or material shortages
- Coordinate with Transportation, Planning, Customer Service, and Procurement teams
- Communicate status, issues, and priorities clearly to stakeholders
- Support onboarding and training of new warehouse associates
- Provide hands‑on direction and reinforcement of best practices
- Serve as a subject‑matter resource for warehouse processes and systems
- Identify opportunities to improve warehouse efficiency, layout, or workflows
- Support implementation of process improvements and standardization
- Assist with audits, peak planning, and operational readiness activities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
