Warehouse Lead - Afternoon Shift

Dawn Foods Ltd.; Lithia Springs (GA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Professional training

Career advancement

Family-owned business

Job summary

Dawn Foods Ltd. is seeking a Warehouse Lead for the Afternoon Shift at the Atlanta Dist. Center in Lithia Springs, GA.

You will coach warehouse associates, distribute tasks for efficiency, and ensure safety. The role requires warehouse experience, forklift operation, SAP and Microsoft Excel familiarity, and strong communication with the ability to manage multiple priorities. Sunday–Thursday schedule with overtime as needed; compensation includes $22.10/hour base, plus $3.00/hour differential and

Qualifications

• One year of experience in warehouse or distribution environment.
• Strong oral, written, and communication skills.
• Ability to handle many tasks and prioritize deadlines.
• Ability to safely operate a forklift and other heavy warehouse equipment.

Responsibilities

• Assist with division of tasks and assignments to ensure an efficient warehouse operation.
• Coordinate and provide training to Warehouse Team Members.
• Participate in safety initiatives and direct team member work safely.
• Maintain records on destination, weight, and charges for shipments.
• May create bills of lading, shipment reports, and processing records.
• Data entry, import file generation, labeling, tracking/expediting freight, and invoicing.
• Ensure accurate rate charges by verifying material classifications.
• Coordinate with carriers for deliveries and drive assignments.
• Monitor shipments and update traffic records.
• Confirm information, provide product details, resolve problems, and ship items.
• Enter freight data into records system; manage damage claims with carriers.
• Prioritize daily workload and investigate shipping service issues.

Skills

Warehouse operations

Communication

Time management

Forklift operation

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Job Title: Warehouse Lead - Afternoon Shift

Facility: Atlanta Dist. Center

Location: Lithia Springs, Georgia, United States

Workplace Type: Onsite

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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 helpcustomers 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. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Competitive Pay $22.10/hour + $3.00/hour Shift Differential + $1.00/hour Lead Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

Shift Schedule:

• Sunday – Thursday
• Sunday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm (or until finished)
• Overtime and Weekends required based on business needs.

Job Purpose and Overview

As a Warehouse Lead at Dawn, you are responsible for providing 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.

• 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

What will you do as a Warehouse Leadat Dawn Foods?

• 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.
• Perform other related duties incidental to work described herein
• Support the Circle of Excellence and the Dawn Philosophy of Team Dawn

Physical Demands & Work Environment

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 essential functions.

• 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.
• Must be able to reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
• 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 employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
• Must be able to tolerate potential allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, wheat, and soy .
• The employee will be in a variable climate to perform the duties of the position. At times, it is warm, cold, dusty, and dirty.

Note:The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

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. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. 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.

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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.