Logistics Team Leader 2

Celestica•Fort Worth, TX

About The Position

This is a first-level supervisory role leading a team of 2–10 employees, typically non-exempt, performing routine work within a single function or work group. The position provides immediate supervision, assigns and checks work, contributes input to plans and objectives, and enforces functional policies and procedures. The role works within established standards and processes, executes budgets, develops schedules, and may contribute to policy development. The supervisor participates in interviewing and hiring, reviews employee performance, recommends compensation and disciplinary action, and approves overtime schedules and working hours. The role supervises material handlers and supports order-fulfillment employees. It oversees receiving, checking, and stocking raw materials; sorting and delivering materials to production; and packaging finished goods and shipping them to customers. It ensures accurate inventory counts, packaging, handling, stock rotation, shelf-life tracking, and part identification. The Team Leader develops employee training and development plans, communicates safety and ISO standards, evaluates departmental metrics, identifies process improvements, manages the departmental budget, and works with peers and other departments to resolve issues and improve processes. The role also provides guidance on account, workload, process, and personnel issues and facilitates team meetings and the development of outbound order-fulfillment processes and best practices. The position is based in a manufacturing environment and involves regular interaction with employees, peers, other departments, and potentially external contacts. It requires continuous light physical effort and periodic heavy manual effort, including lifting objects over 20 pounds.

Requirements

Four to six years of relevant experience.
Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.
Knowledge of warehouse management operations and inventory control methods in a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of manufacturing resource planning.
Knowledge of cost accounting practices.
Good leadership and coaching skills.
Ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and solve a variety of tasks to ensure timely and accurate completion.
Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

Supervise material handlers and provide leadership and support to order-fulfillment employees.
Assign and schedule work, check work at regular intervals, and reassign personnel to optimize production.
Review employee performance, coach employees, recommend compensation, and take or recommend disciplinary action as necessary.
Participate in interviewing and hiring and make decisions involving workload allocation and hiring practices.
Establish a team training model and a developmental plan for each employee; train and mentor new and existing employees.
Communicate site safety standards, ISO standards, and customer-awareness training to employees.
Develop, improve, and enforce documented procedures for material-handling practices.
Ensure accurate counts, packaging, handling, stock rotation, shelf-life tracking, and part identification.
Supervise receiving, checking, and stocking raw materials; sorting and delivering materials to production; and packaging finished products and shipping them to customers.
Evaluate departmental metrics, identify and drive process improvements, and manage the departmental budget.
Interact with peers and other departments to communicate information, resolve issues, and improve processes.
Provide guidance on account, workload, process, and personnel issues; facilitate team meetings.
Provide input on department activities and staffing and facilitate development of outbound order-fulfillment processes and best-practice models.
Develop schedules, enforce functional policies and procedures, and approve overtime schedules and working hours.