Warehouse Lead Jobs

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. CUSTOMERS. PRODUCTS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Clean work environment
• Company paid personal, sick, and vacation time
• 401(K) + company match
• Industry-leading health insurance starts on Day 1!
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
• $29.56/hour
• Climate controlled
• Yearly boot allowance, uniforms and protective eye wear
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• Professional training

About the Job

This opportunity is a full-time and benefits-eligible position.

Schedule:

• Must be able to work overtime if needed..
• Monday – Friday
• Start Time: 2:30 PM

As a Warehouse Lead at Dawn, you are responsible to provide training and support to the Warehouse Associates. Ensures that team members are actively engaged in work assignments and that assignments are distributed for maximum efficiency.

What Does It Take to be a Warehouse Lead at Dawn Foods?

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.

• Two years of experience in warehouse or distribution environment strongly preferred (i.e. knowledge of warehouse operations; JBA and WMS systems helpful).
• SAP and Microsoft experience is needed.
• Must be able to handle many diversified tasks at one time and correctly prioritize conflicting, time sensitive tasks.
• High school diploma or GED is preferred
• Requires strong oral, written, and communication skills.
• Requires the ability to safely operate a forklift and other heavy warehouse equipment.

What You'll Do as a Warehouse Lead

• Ensures accuracy of rate charges by verifying classification of materials with rate schedule.
• Monitors pending shipments related to the shipping schedules of purchases issued and updating the traffic record system.
• Enters incoming and outgoing freight data, such as destination, weight, route-initiating department, and charges into record system.
• Maintain records on the destination, weight, and charges on all incoming and outgoing shipments.
• Ability to prioritize daily workload.
• May create bills of lading, shipment reports, and process all incoming and outgoing shipment records.
• Assists the quality team as needed to troubleshoot and fix potential food safety/product safety issues.
• Investigate and provide reports and corrective actions on shipping service errors and complaints
• Other duties as assigned.
• May maintain records of overcharges and for damages to goods in transit and files damage claims with carriers.
• Data entry, generation of import files, labelling, filing, assistance with tracking/expediting freight, freight/broker invoice auditing.
• May coordinate with carriers to schedule deliveries of shipments, and process driving assignments for pick-up/delivery.
• Assist with division of tasks and assignments to ensure an efficient warehouse operation.
• Information collection may be hand entered into a computer.
• Safely operates a forklift and other warehouse equipment in order to accomplish the goals of the position.
• Coordinates and provides training to Warehouse Team Members.
• Participates in safety initiatives and directs team member work in a safe manner.
• Confirms information; provides product information; resolves problems; determines method of shipment and ships items, maintains records.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to tolerate potential allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, wheat, and soy.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and regularly lift and/or move 5-10 pounds
• Must be able to reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to grasp, move or utilize objects, tools or controls.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• The employee is frequently required to balance and stoop, kneel or crouch.
• The employee is occasionally required to use sensory perception for quality measurement of products.

• The facility is climate controlled; however, the employee will be in a variable climate to perform the duties of the position. At times, it is warm, cold, dusty and dirty. The employee will spend time outside unloading rail cars during inclement weather.

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”

About Dawn Foods

Dawn Foods provides high-quality bakery solutions to customers around the globe. With unmatched manufacturing and distribution capabilities, we bring together the knowledge, commitment, and innovation our customers deserve.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID: 34521