What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Shipping Lead position at Hubbard Supplyhouse?
Description
Hubbard Supplyhouse is seeking an energetic, self-motivated individual to join our family-like atmosphere. We are a plumbing, lighting, and irrigation distributor that assists local builders, plumbers, and homeowners in the creation of beautiful living spaces with kitchen and bath fixtures, as well as residential and commercial lighting. We are a family owned, Christian company that believes in taking care of our customers and employees. The ideal candidate will have previous warehouse experience, enjoys working with others to help direct their vision into a reality, and excels in a “team first” work environment.
The Shipping Lead will increase operational efficiency, company profitability and customer satisfaction by overseeing safe, accurate and timely processing of outgoing shipments and deliveries.
Position Responsibilities
Experience:
Hubbard Supplyhouse is seeking an energetic, self-motivated individual to join our family-like atmosphere. We are a plumbing, lighting, and irrigation distributor that assists local builders, plumbers, and homeowners in the creation of beautiful living spaces with kitchen and bath fixtures, as well as residential and commercial lighting. We are a family owned, Christian company that believes in taking care of our customers and employees. The ideal candidate will have previous warehouse experience, enjoys working with others to help direct their vision into a reality, and excels in a “team first” work environment.
The Shipping Lead will increase operational efficiency, company profitability and customer satisfaction by overseeing safe, accurate and timely processing of outgoing shipments and deliveries.
Position Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop a productive warehouse by hiring, training and providing professional development for all of its associates
- Supervise and coordinate the shipping of outbound orders, ensuring accuracy and timeliness with both product and paperwork
- Ensure shipping warehouse space is used effectively and kept clean and orderly
- Assist with the integrity of inventory and support cycle counts
- Maintain security of warehouse and safety of all associates and equipment, reporting any accidents and conveying any issues to branch management
- Provide strategic leadership for the shipping team
- Promote and drive safety daily in the workplace, crafting a safe work environment for associates
- Provide consistent communication to associates and counterparts
- Continue to increase quality in customer deliveries
- Drive high levels of inventory integrity within the building
- Maintain associate engagement throughout the warehouse
- Ensure high standards of cleanliness are maintained in your department
- Places a higher priority on organization's goals than own area's goals, and provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and keeps commitments.
- Supports, involves, and informs others on the team- Treats others with fairness and respect, listens to others in team decisions and actions, and shares information with others on the team.
- Builds collaborative relationships, and identifies partnership needs and opportunities- Builds rapport and cooperative relationships with others. Analyzes the organization to identify key relationships, and determines the scope and expectations of that partnership so that both areas' needs can be met.
- Sets up customer feedback systems to monitor partnerships- Implements effective means for monitoring and evaluating the partnership process and the attainment of mutual goals.
- Establishes S.M.A.R.T. goals in line with company goals and values. Implements action plans with timelines with deliverables and measure results.
- Builds relationships – Learns the value of relationships and views building relationships as a critical success tool.
- Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment. Adjusts to new work structures, processes, requirements, and/or cultures.
- Takes independent action to learn new ideas or potential solutions without prompting and does not wait for others to take action or to request action.
- Persists in efforts to achieve goals in spite of barriers or difficulties. Never giving up attitude.
- Redirects focus — Adjusts focus when it becomes obvious that a goal cannot be achieved; redirects energy into related achievable goals if appropriate.
- Organizes communication and clarifies purpose with stressing the importance. Addresses major points that ensure communication is correctly interpreted.
Experience:
- Minimum 1 year in similar position preferred (2 years preferred)
- Minimum 2 years in progressive position (3 years preferred)
- Product/applications experience required
- Wholesale distribution experience preferred
