Group Lead - Warehouse

Knoll Inc.; Morganton (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

MillerKnoll is seeking a skilled manufacturing coordinator to oversee daily production and shipping activities, ensuring on-time output and accurate inventory. You will work with multiple teams to align production with demand and maintain rigorous record-keeping.

Responsibilities include coordinating shift plans, validating BOM changes with engineering, and upholding safety and quality standards while driving efficiency across the supply chain.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Three years of work experience with at least one year in manufacturing.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration.
• Excellent planning, organization, and reliability in daily tasks.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day production and shipping/receiving activities to meet goals.
• Assign jobs, plan shifts, and manage line staffing.
• Review ECO requests with engineering to update BOMs or purchasing items.
• Identify and resolve inventory issues to maintain correct stock levels.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and perform cycle counts and audits.
• Support safety and quality initiatives across the team.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

High school diploma

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Why join us?

If you’re looking for a fulfilling manufacturing career, you’ve come to the right place. At Geiger, we’re searching for dedicated manufacturing talent to support our business growth. We offer a competitive hourly wage, generous benefits that start on your first day, and endless possibilities for career growth. Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

General Purpose

Under general supervision, coordinate day-to-day production and/or shipping and receiving activities to ensure goals are met. Includes such duties as making job assignments, ensuring production schedules are met, determining output requirements and coordinating production efforts with other departments. Responsible to help with inventory systems, perform cycle counts and audits, problem identification and work with the appropriate people to permanently correct inventory issues to ensure that the correct quantity of materials are available to support our reliability goals.

Essential Functions

Communicate daily team and individual performance information to the work team leader. Coordinate day-to-day department operation activities for employees and temporaries, including shift work planning, line staffing and making job assignments. Coordinate the integration of new employees into the team to include making job assignments, job training, safety and quality training, etc. Partner with engineering, and other teams to review requests (ECOs) to change BOMs, add or delete purchased items, setup warehouses, etc. Identify and suggest corrective action to dispose of appropriate slow moving or obsolete inventory to procurement team. Maintain and report key issues. Train teammates to follow correct inventory procedures and monitor the processes to ensure compliance. Maintain the accuracy of the systems by highlighting incorrect BOMs, validate and setup inventory records with proper codes and maintain locations. Participate in continuous improvement projects and lead initiatives as appropriate. Act as liaison between auditing, planning, production, schedulers, quality control, and engineering to analyze and high potential causes of inventory inaccuracies. Assist in determining appropriate inventory strategies that support meeting our customer’s expectations and minimize our inventory investment. Count, research and reconcile inventory discrepancies. Communicate inventory issues with appropriate team members, such as shortages caused by adjustments. Monitor safety practices and quality initiatives of individuals. Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Skills and Abilities

High school diploma or equivalent. Three years work experience including at least one year of manufacturing experience. Technical experience may be preferred depending on department. Ability to express ideas effectively (verbally and written) with well developed interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated professionalism. Good planning and organizational skills. Demonstrated success in achieving results. Must be able to demonstrate the following core competencies: integrity and trust, dependability, job knowledge, flexibility, initiative, self-development, teamwork, problem solving and adaptability. Capable to perform essential jobs in the department. Strong knowledge and understanding of material flow throughout the supply chain. Good mathematical aptitude, attention to detail, ability to perform accurate error-free work.

Who We Hire?

MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities. This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings. MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at [e-mail]. MillerKnoll is a collective of design brands coming together to remake modern for the 21st century.