Material Handler, Lead

Creation Technologies • Boise, ID

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About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. The Lead Material Handler is responsible for overseeing the activities of material handlers and ensuring that materials are received, stored, and distributed efficiently, accurately and on-time to customer needs. They establish and monitor schedules and metrics while assisting Material Handlers in their daily tasks. The Lead Material Handler resolves issues for their team and obtains required resources to achieve team goals. They play a crucial role in maintaining inventory accuracy, optimizing the material flow & processes, and supporting the timely fulfillment of orders.

Requirements

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalency
• 2 years’ experience in warehouse/inventory management, physical inventory practices and procedures
• 1 year experience with leading teams or equivalent experience/training
• 1 year experience using pallet trucks, tools, and equipment to handle and move material
• 1 year experience using reel counters and scales to count small components
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Working knowledge in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.) to create, edit, and maintain documents
• Proficient English business communications skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to give clear instructions and follow through on their execution
• Strong customer service focus (both internal and external)
• Must be very detailed oriented/organizational skills
• Be flexible, adaptable, able and willing to modify activities and direction with a dynamic business environment
• Ability to manage and support staffing of a multi-shift operation
• Proactive, with a sense of urgency

Nice To Haves

• Use of powered material handling equipment (i.e., forklift)
• Experience handling electronic components
• Experience in setting up MS Excel functions including creating and editing formulas, VLOOKUP, and PivotTables

Responsibilities

• Manages and monitors inventory transaction processes to ensure inventory accuracy and timeliness to company policies
• Verify inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock, and investigate discrepancies or adjust errors
• Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities
• Expedite materials and transactions to support manufacturing operations
• Coordinate and monitor the receipt, storage, movement, and shipment of goods
• Maintain inventory organization & cycle count by location, count, and status
• Coordinate the generation of cycle count and physical inventory sheets and is responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the inventory count
• Manage recycling and inventory disposal per Creation Technologies’ policy
• Maintain material storage areas, keep stock control systems up-to-date, and ensure inventories are accurate
• Inspect material handling equipment, tools, and machinery regularly and monitor general maintenance as needed
• Assist employees in submitting Service Desk Tickets
• Motivate, organize, and encourage teamwork within the workforce to ensure productivity goals are met or exceeded
• Provides feedback to their leadership on resources and training needs; proposes solutions
• Audit receiving, shipping, material handling processes and procedures, shipments, receipts, etc.
• Coordinate and support the implementation of training, procedural documentation updates, and process improvements
• Lead cross-functional projects, process improvements and continuous improvement events to improve the performance of the Materials team
• Produce statistical and information reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis regarding inventory and warehouse status including establishing metrics and targets
• Provides guidance, training, and priorities to personnel in their daily work while working with them to resolve issues and anticipating potential problems
• Directly involved in interdepartmental activities working with Accounting, Procurement, Planning, Operations, etc., daily and on special projects
• Maintain safety and 5S workplace organization standards
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

What This Job Offers

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