Warehouse Lead-2nd Shift

  • Forward Air
  • Vernon, California
  • Full Time

Position: Warehouse Lead

Available Schedule: Monday through Friday, 1:50 PM - 10:30 PM

Compensation: $22.00 per hour

Core Responsibilities & Duties:

Job Duties (not limited to the list below)

  • Each employee is expected to communicate with their team in a respectful and professional manner; exhibit mature behavior in dealing with challenging situations.

  • Support and implement the company's initiatives to promote positive employee morale and team building.

  • Responsible for enforcing warehouse safety programs in order to provide a safe and clean workplace for employees and within the regulations of Cal OSHA and state regulations.

  • Provide direction and motivation to the floor team in order to promote efficiency, quality and accuracy.

  • Uphold employee handbook policies.

  • Helps monitor warehouse overtime.

  • Helps ensure the team has proper tools to execute their job duties.

  • Understand and help drive departmental key performance indicators (KPI).

  • Helps convey maintenance of warehouse equipment/tools and all necessary repairs to the maintenance department.

  • Assist Supervisor/Manager in distributing work to associates as required & needed to support workflow to meet daily production goals.

  • Responsible for assisting proper training to new hires and re-training on an as-needed basis in coordination with the company's SOP.

  • Highlight top & bottom performers to supervisors to provide recognition & training as needed

  • Fully understand the workflow, daily production goals, and number of associates present each day.

  • Lead the team by example through work performance, can-do attitude & collaboration with teammates

  • Provide procedural feedback to Supervisor/Manager to improve our current Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

  • Identify and communicate safety hazards or incidents to Supervisor/Management

  • Enthusiastically participate in safety initiatives & encourage the team to do the same

Requirements, Skills & Abilities include but not limited to:

  • Follows work-safe practices

  • Operates various pieces of equipment (manual pallet jack, electric pallet jack, hand held scanner, box cutter, picking cart, desktop computer, scale, shrink wrap and baler).

  • Contribute to a safe work environment through continuous focus on housekeeping and safety.

  • Demonstrate a commitment to our company's core values.

  • Interact with supervisors, leads, and/or work groups with information exchanges related to immediate tasks.

  • Work in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment.

  • Attention to detail

  • Basic ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing,

  • Basic math skills (counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication)

  • Basic computer skills (accessing and navigating the internet; familiar with the keyboard; opening, closing, and saving documents)

  • Ability to push, pull, grasp, and fine manipulation of equipment using hands is ongoing throughout the work hours

  • Must be able to bend and lift 50 lbs. and work on your feet for the entire shift.

  • Must be able and willing to frequently bend, squat, twist, push/pull to retrieve inventory and packing items throughout the shift

  • Must be able to work on your feet for a minimum of 8 hours a day with extensive lifting and pushing of heavy product

  • Exhibited good job performance and behavior as measured through indicators such as teamwork, attendance, quality and productivity, etc.

  • Must be flexible with scheduling; work overtime as business dictates.

Job ID: 515979947
Originally Posted on: 4/2/2026

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