Team Lead TX

Novo Building Products; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Building Products in Dallas, TX is seeking an Entry Level Team Lead for the night shift. The position supports the Supervisor to maintain safe, efficient warehouse operations and to coach team members toward goals and proper procedures.

Responsibilities include delegating tasks, training staff on safety and policies, directing product flow, resolving issues, and handling receiving, stocking, and loading activities.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Flexibility in scheduling and overtime availability.
• Ability to read and follow written procedures.

Responsibilities

• Delegates tasks and sets deadlines for team goals.
• Trains team members on job duties, safety, company policies and procedures.
• Directs product flow of incoming or outgoing loads to optimize warehouse space.
• Oversees daily operations to ensure efficiency and answers team questions or problems.
• Anticipates and resolves issues that could delay freight and notifies customer service of carrier problems.
• Ensures paperwork is completed per department requirements.
• Communicates discrepancies, product issues, or safety concerns with the Supervisor.
• Completes Novo training and follows safety requirements.
• Participates in the safety team leadership.
• Performs warehouse activities including receiving, stocking, pulling, banding/staging, and loading.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Basic math

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Reasoning skills

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Forklift operation

Power industrial equipment

Job description

Level: Entry | Job Location: Dallas - Dallas, TX 75237 | Position Type: Full Time | Salary Range: $21.25 - $21.25 Hourly | Travel Percentage: None | Job Shift: Night

Position Summary

The Team Lead will be responsible for assisting the Departments Supervisor with continuous workflow and ensuring employees are performing work safely and accurately. The Team Lead assists in training new and existing employees in job duties and coaches team members on achieving goals and developing necessary skills that drive results. They will aid in resolving conflict within the team and proactively respond before it escalates.

Essential Responsibilities

• Delegates tasks and sets deadlines for team goals
• Creates a positive team environment with an open communication culture.
• Trains team members on job duties, safety, company policies and procedures.
• Directs product flow of incoming or outgoing loads to best utilize warehouse space and customer needs.
• Oversees that the daily operations run smoothly and assists team with questions, issues, or problems, monitoring for overall efficiency of department.
• Anticipate, identify, and resolve problems that could delay the timely movement of freight, including advising customer service of carrier issues from pick-up and deliveries.
• Reviews paperwork is completed per department requirements
• Communicates any discrepancies, product issues or safety issues with Supervisor
• Successfully passes Novo training and follows all safety requirements established
• Participates in the safety team leadership
• Performs warehouse activities to include receiving, stocking, pulling, banding/staging, and loading.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• Effectively perform all essential functions, including physical requirements
• Use of proper PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and company approved tools while remaining aware of hazards and maintaining a safe work environment
• Ability to move awkward product lengths and weights
• Basic math, interpersonal/team, and reasoning skills
• Ability to read, understand and carry out written procedures and standard work instructions.
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Flexibility in scheduling – able to work overtime as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior leadership experience in distribution or manufacturing environment
• Experience operating a power industrial equipment
• Prior experience lifting wide loads, as long as 18 feet
• Minimum one year experience operating a forklift
• High School Diploma or GED

Travel Requirements

No travel requirements

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Able to withstand exposure to seasonal weather elements and wood dust
• 100%: Stand, handle or feel, squeeze or grasp
• 80%: Reaching with hands and arms, depth perception
• 50%: Walk, repetitive motion, operate moving equipment
• 10: Working bent at waist, stoop, kneel, crouch, bending or twisting
• Lift, push or pull up to 50 lbs. without assistance.
• Lift, push or pull 75-100 lbs. with assistance.