Specialty - Warehouse - Lead Receiver

Chefs Warehouse•Cincinnati, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Receiver position involves leading and coaching night warehouse team members in selecting, replenishing, receiving, and loading products for customer orders, ensuring safety, accuracy, and efficiency. The role focuses on motivating and engaging team members to achieve results, supporting policy application, and fostering associate development through coaching and training. This position also involves identifying and resolving safety hazards, maintaining warehouse conditions and equipment, and contributing to process improvements to reduce damages and improve inventory accuracy. The Lead Receiver will work with operations management to lead initiatives and ensure compliance with safety standards.

Requirements

Has successfully performed job functions at the company as a selector, replenishment team member, loader, or receiver.
Has the experience positively engaging peers and teams while working through diverse and challenging opportunities to effectively deliver results.
Leadership, motivation and managerial skills.
Knowledge of and demonstrated success in following standard operating procedures (SOPs) while providing input and ideas for “best practices” in a warehouse distribution setting with a focus on inventory control, replenishment, and outbound loading and shipping operations.
Ability to understand data and results while articulating the same to individual team members.
Manages time effectively and adapts quickly to changing priorities.
Accurate with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

Lead and positively coach night warehouse team members to select, replenish, receive, and load product for customer orders safely, accurately and efficiently.
Motivate and positively engage team members and their assigned team to deliver results.
Engage team members to consistently achieve and/or exceed individual performance goals and objectives by positively leading by example.
Proactively identify and remove obstacles for teams and individual team members.
Fully support the consistent application of all policies, procedures, and guidelines while leading by example and consistently and effectively communicating expectations to team members.
Responsible for associate development through positive coaching and training on policy & procedures and equipment.
Complete required daily feedback and coaching with selectors partnering with individuals and teams to identify the “root cause” of "mis-picks" and shorts.
Act through positive coaching and interaction to correct behaviors.
Proactively identify safety hazards and either resolve them or report them to the safety committee as appropriate.
Accountable for maintaining the physical condition of the warehouse and its equipment.
Lead team and individuals to support assigned daily/weekly cleaning schedules and plans.
Analyze the current operation and make recommendations to improve on expense and cost control.
Support business change and development through process improvements.
Work with operations management team to lead initiatives to reduce damages while ensuring teams and individuals accurately report and record damaged inventory items.
Proactively engage in coaching individual team members to accurately use voice and computer systems which in turn reduce “mis-picks,” improve inventory accuracy through accurate replenishments and picking, and support a more accurate and balanced incentive program.
Safeguard warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.
Maintain physical condition of warehouse; inspecting equipment; issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
Consistently support warehouse operations regarding employee schedules, workloads and productivity immediately identifying individual obstacles or team barriers to supervisors and managers across multiple shifts and/or the department.
Ensure compliance with OSHA standards and company safety requirements.