Freezer Team Lead at The Ziegenfelder Company — Wheeling, WV

Essential Functions

• Supervising a team of Freezer Technicians to palletize and move finished product.
• Pulling finished products from the production conveyor belt and stacking on pallets properly.
• Checking all products to ensure proper coding.
• Ensuring proper amount of product is neatly stacked on pallets and all boxes on the pallet meet quality standards.
• Process and ready all sales orders and transfers for shipping.
• Wrapping palletized product with plastic stretch wrap.
• Ensuring proper tags are printed and posted on all palletized products.
• Ensuring that inventory is accurate by properly counting and entering in appropriate inventory tracking systems.
• Complete daily RPO’s in Navision
• Engage and train new hire freezer techs on proper loading and unloading procedures.
• Ensure and train freezer techs on pulling, scanning, and processing orders using scan guns (Business Central)
• Ensuring all palletized product is properly located in warehouse for picking.
• Picking palletized product for shipping.
• Communicating with operations to ensure correct amount of raw materials are readily available for each shift.
• Communication with members of the Supply Team and Plant Director
• Maintaining a clean and organized work environment.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ experience in a supervisory or management role required, preferably in food/manufacturing environment.
• 1+ years of warehouse experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate electric powered forklifts and electric powered pallet jacks is a plus.
• Must be available to work afternoon or night shift to include weekends and holidays. Flexibility across all shifts is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to read, write and speak English.

Physical Abilities

• Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, bending, twisting, reaching, and push/pull frequently during a shift.
• Visual acuity to safely operate forklifts and pallet jacks.
• May need to exert up to 50 lbs. of force occasionally, up to 30 lbs. of force frequently, and up to 10 lbs. of force constantly.

Working Conditions

• Subject to cold temperatures of less than 32F for more than one hour with proper protection equipment.
• May be subject to noise above 85 decibels with proper protection equipment

Benefits

• Schedule: 40 hours per week with consecutive set days off
• Benefits: Begin on the first day after 60 days of employment
• 401(k) with company matching
• Employee discounts
• Paid holidays