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Directly supervise material handlers and equipment operators, coordinating safe, accurate, and efficient receiving, storage, movement, and shipping of materials.
Job tasks Attributes
  • • Enforce safety rules and regulations and ensure OSHA and site policy compliance.
  • • Plan labor, shifts, and equipment allocations to meet material flow and production goals.
  • • Coordinate with production, shipping, procurement, carriers, and vendors to resolve issues.
  • • Resolve employee concerns and coach teams to assist in problem resolution.
  • • Review work orders, pick lists, production schedules, and shipping/receiving notices to set priorities.
  • • Recommend and implement improvements to motivation, MHE performance, methods, and service.
  • • Maintain and verify records of time, inventory moves, receipts, shipments, and crew activities.
  • • Interpret SOPs, safety rules, and shipping/receiving procedures for staff.
  • • Train new employees and assign on-the-job training to experienced workers.
  • • Prepare and submit reports on throughput, accuracy, equipment utilization, and incidents.
  • • Recommend or implement personnel actions, including hiring, evaluation, recognition, and discipline.
  • • Requisition personnel, supplies, packaging materials, equipment, parts, and repair services.
  • • Inspect forklifts, pallet jacks, racks, docks, and stored materials for safety and compliance.
  • • Estimate labor hours, equipment needs, and storage capacity requirements.
  • • Assign and dispatch lift drivers and handlers to priority tasks via radio or WMS.
  • • Schedule and verify preventive maintenance and repairs for MHE and dock equipment.
  • • Examine, measure, or weigh materials to determine special handling or storage requirements.
  • • Operate forklifts or other MHE when needed to complete work or assist workers.
  • • Monitor floor operations to ensure proper handling, labeling, inventory accuracy, and housekeeping.
  • • Assist teams with loading, unloading, staging, and palletization as required.
  • • Direct receiving, putaway, replenishment, picking, staging, loading, unloading, and cycle counting activities.
  • • Plan and publish daily and weekly schedules and adjust based on demand and constraints.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
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