Afternoon Warehouse Lead: Team Training & Ops Leader

Dawn Food Products; Lithia Springs (GA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance on Day 1

Competitive pay $22.10/hour + $3.00/0r

401(K) + company match

10 Paid Company Holidays

Paid Time Off

Professional training

Family-owned business over 100 years

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Dawn Foods is seeking a Warehouse Lead to train and support Warehouse Associates, ensuring tasks are assigned for maximum efficiency on a Sunday-Thursday shift schedule. The role requires forklift operation, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities with safety in mind.

You will coordinate training, oversee shipments, maintain records, and collaborate with quality and traffic teams to uphold Dawn’s high standards in a fast-paced distribution environment in Georgia.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Forklift operation

Communication skills

Multitasking

Tools

SAP

Microsoft

Job description

Dawn Foods is seeking a Warehouse Lead to train and support Warehouse Associates, ensuring tasks are assigned for maximum efficiency on a Sunday-Thursday shift schedule. The role requires forklift operation, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities with safety in mind.

You will coordinate training, oversee shipments, maintain records, and collaborate with quality and traffic teams to uphold Dawn’s high standards in a fast-paced distribution environment in Georgia.