Warehouse Team Lead

Team Leader

At PLA Supply Chain Services, we're looking for a dedicated Team Leader to help guide our team toward success. If you're ready to take on a leadership role and guide a team to meet production goals while ensuring safety and compliance, this could be the role for you! As a Team Leader, you will work alongside facility management to ensure that your team is aligned and working toward common goals.

Work Schedule:

• Day Shift: 5:00 am to 1:30 pm (Monday thru Friday)

As a Team Leader, your responsibilities will include:

• Training Personnel: Guide and develop your team to ensure they meet production and safety standards.
• Conducting Inspections: Ensure pallets meet customer specifications and maintain quality control.
• Safety Compliance: Ensure all safety policies and procedures are followed.
• Production Goals: Help your team meet daily production goals by providing clear direction and setting priorities.
• Reporting: Prepare reports, correct discrepancies, and maintain accurate pallet inventory.
• Shift Transitions: Responsible for smooth transitions between shifts and the setup of work areas.
• Collaboration: Work closely with location management to identify and address any operational or safety training needs.
• Establishes and maintains consistent and proper communication with internal and external management teams.
• Partners with onsite management team to ensure the customer's expectations of the highest level of quality standards and service are achieved.
• Responsible for meeting or exceeding daily, weekly, and monthly production goals.
• Reviews and analyzes daily and weekly reports to ensure constant improvement in operations.
• Partners with onsite management team to ensure timely completion and administration of all employment tasks including employee scheduling, timekeeping, performance reviews, corrective actions, status changes, separations, attendance, and timely submission of required payroll data.
• Supervises or assists in recruiting, hiring, training, and retention of employees.
• Works with the onsite management team in administering operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and on-time delivery.
• Serves as an interface between operations, customers, administration, employees, and logistics.
• Provides leadership and guidance to frontline employees. Establishes and communicates goals and objectives. Emphasizes accountability and inspires positive behavior changes.

What We're Looking For:

• Education: Associate's Degree (preferred but not required).
• Experience: 2 years of experience in a leadership or similar role.
• Ability to perform essential duties satisfactorily and meet production goals.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of staff and external partners.
• Analytical skills to review reports and identify areas for improvement.
• Experience with employee relations, including scheduling, timekeeping, performance management, and HR processes.
• A strong understanding of operational standards for safety, quality, and efficiency.

Physical Requirements:

• This is a physically demanding role that requires constant standing, walking, bending, and stooping.
• You must be able to lift and move materials, which may be heavy, repeatedly throughout the workday.
• Requires good manual dexterity and physical stamina for tasks such as minor repairs and manual drying.
• Ability to hear and understand verbal instructions and safety alarms in a warehouse environment.

Other Physical Requirements:

• Vision: Requires adequate near vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception to safely perform job duties, identify pallet defects, operate tools, read labels, and recognize workplace hazards.
• Sense of Sound: Ability to hear horns, alarms, machinery, and verbal instructions in a potentially noisy warehouse environment.
• Sense of Touch: Ability to use hands and fingers effectively to handle tools, fasteners, materials, and equipment with precision and control.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Ability to consistently wear required PPE, including steel-toe shoes, safety glasses, and gloves, throughout the workday.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will primarily work in a warehouse environment. This may include exposure to dust, fluctuating temperatures (hot and cold), and moderate to high noise levels. Steel-toed boots and other personal protective equipment (PPE) will be required.

PLA and its Family of Companies is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized because of such a request.