Lead Material Handler

American Packaging Corporation•DeForest, WI

About The Position

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future. LOCATION: DeForest, WI SHIFT: 1st (7am-3pm) SUMMARY: Provide leadership in the Warehouse department and serve as a positive role model to material handlers in all aspects of the warehouse, shipping and receiving process – safety, productivity, efficiency, etc. This position reports to the Shipping & Receiving Manager.

Requirements

Associate/Bachelor’s degree (A. A./B.S.) or relevant work history or equivalent from two-year college/four-year college or technical school; with one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
The employee frequently is required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
This position may require manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs – reference your department-specific JHA (job hazard analysis) for departmental lifting restrictions.

Responsibilities

Facilitate on the job training and instruction for team members on the correct use of tools and equipment to ensure proper safety and operating procedures are followed.
Oversee and coordinate daily warehouse activities.
Ensure the accuracy of shipments and inventory.
Monitoring work performance of direct reports.
Liaison with supply chain and carriers / customers.
Coordinate with other departments to ensure production is supplied.
Train new employees who start with the company.
Conduct inventory counts to ensure accurate inventory.
Daily walk throughs of the warehouses, inspection of the warehouse ground.
Evaluate and report on warehouse productivity.
Tracking and coordinating the receipt, storage, and timely delivery of goods and materials.
Ensure FIFO of inventory is being conducted and administered.
Other duties as assigned.