Warehouse Area Lead

City Brewing Company – Who We Are

With our roots in La Crosse, WI, we are proud to be North America’s largest co-packager of alcoholic beverages with four locations across the United States. Through our focuses on Safety throughout our facilities, Quality of products produced for our customers, Communication at all levels, Growth of not just our locations but also of our employees in their careers, and Performance with our ability to meet deadlines and goals for ourselves and our customers, we pride ourselves on the brand we have created and continue to grow.

Job Summary

The Warehouse Area Lead is responsible for 24 hour supervisory coverage of a particular area of the Memphis Warehouse Team. This role will serve as both a people leader and process leader to ensure all team members have the resources needed to operate in a safe and efficient work environment. The Warehouse Area Lead will also play a pivotal role in identifying and implementing process improvements alongside the Memphis leadership team as City continues to grow.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise FLL, Warehouse Coordinators, and hourly associates
• Front line discipline and documentation
• Assist with interviewing, hiring, and training of salaried and hourly employees
• Assist with hourly personnel timekeeping
• Supervise training for all associates
• Assist managers and supervisors with tracking hourly performance
• Supervise implementation of all warehouse S.O.P.’s and policies
• Track and record all daily forklift inspection reports

• Supervise the maintenance of all on board forklift scanners, radios, cradles, and WMS equipment
• Supervise shipments within D.M.V. regulations
• Employee relations coordinator between shipping coordinators and hourly employees
• Enforce policies to stay within internal, federal, state, and local regulations. Responsible for compliance of GMP, fire codes, insurance guidelines, sanitation, pest control, safety, O.S.H.A., F.D.A. and T.T.B.
• Assist with upgrade and implementation of systems improvements
• Ensure all packaging material for the daily production is accurate, available, and accessible
• File and track all defective packaging material
• Supervise the daily inventory, storage and movement of all packaging materials, ingredients, and finished product
• Direct contact for CBC accounting, customer service, and quality departments for inventory and audits of packaging, ingredients, and full goods
• Responsible for finished product, packaging material and ingredient stock rotation, storage, and hold reporting
• Monitor and control daily packaging adjustments
• Responsible for purchasing of pallets/slip sheets/pallet tags/shipping materials
• Coordinate and ensure the flow of all palletizers, transfers, rails, shipments, inbound supplies, and trucks
• Assist front line hourly associates with scanning issues and corrections as needed
• Supervise recording, grounds and trailer reporting for a trailer drop lot
• Answer phones and radios
• Open palletizers in WMS to match current production
• Generate pallet tags
• Make copies of bills of lading, filing.
• Enter P.O./Returned Material Authorizations finished product/shipping material receipts
• Assign load patterns
• Must know process to check in all inbound/outbound loads and drivers and be able to fill in for Warehouse Coordinators when needed
• Support the Packaging, Customer Service, Batching, Brewing, Accounting, Purchasing and Quality Assurance departments

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, and/or material handling environment
• Experience successfully supervising and mentoring a large team
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Advanced computer skills preferred
• WMS experience, preferred
• Highly organized and self motivated
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and make quick, accurate decisions

City Brewery is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all applicants will be considered without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.