Job Details: Level: Experienced, Job Location: CDS Baltimore - Middle River, MD, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $20.00 - $22.00Hourly, Job Category: Warehouse, Warehouse Lead Break Bulk   Title: Warehouse Lead Break Bulk Department: Warehouse Position Status: Full Time Shift Schedule: Day Shift Exempt Status: Hourly Non-Exempt About CDS Logistics: At CDS Logistics, we are specialists in last mile delivery services of kitchen cabinets, windows, doors, and appliances. We service our customers through a nationwide network consisting of over 80 locations making over 1 million deliveries annually to homes, job sites and retail locations. Our team-oriented approach, together with our proprietary technology, enables us to exceed our customers’ expectations. We are not perfect, but we try to be. We hold ourselves to the highest standards, ensuring every customer is treated with respect and every order handled as if it were our own. We support our team members to ensure their career success with training programs, accessible leadership, and ongoing talent development. Our Mission: “Creating Customers by Servicing Customers” Our Guiding Principles: 1. Put Safety First 2. Respect for Others 3. Treat Customer Orders Like Our Own 4. Deliverable Measurable Excellence 5. Pursue Relentless Improvement   About the Job CDS Logistics & Home Services is seeking a dynamic warehouse professional to assist in managing the Break Bulk (Cabinets Receiving) team in a leading final mile logistics company. The Lead position will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the team’s daily productivity, reporting directly to the Assistant Warehouse Manager. Our primary goal is to ensure excellent operational and production standards are met and maintained. The Key Job Accountabilities for a leader in the warehouse are listed below. The outline gives a clear overview of the responsibilities that are necessary to obtain success as a leader. “Leadership is in action only when the dream / goal is a reality at the grass-roots level.” This means that unless your subordinates are well trained and understand the importance of their jobs as related to the success of the business you will not be effective as a leader. This applies to all tasks from sweeping the floor to successfully and accurately completing a full inbound load of product to managing our performance metrics and lean initiative goals.  Break Bulk Lead In this role you will work in the Baltimore Warehouse facility, supporting the daily operations of our business through team leadership, coaching & development of direct reports and accurate completion of daily deliverables. You can anticipate this role to focus on team leadership and task delegation, meeting quality and quantity of daily production requirements, and lean management activities within your scope of the warehouse.   Successful applicant will be able to: Perform quality work within deadlines.  Interact and communicate professionally with internal and external customer groups. Prioritize daily tasks in consideration of Organizational Strategic Goals. Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating efforts with your stakeholders.   Essential Job Functions Manage BB2 crew and their daily production activities in accordance with CDS’ SOP’s under the direction of the Manager and Supervisor. Follow, support, and set standards, goals, and processes. Assist in checking and answering emails. Assist in creating and maintaining the Breakbulk inbound schedule. Assist in the Standardization of processes and Audit procedures. Assist in the individual review process for direct reports. Assist in the verbal and written discipline process of subordinates. Assist and support your teams needs for staffing. This includes interviewing potential. candidates and making hiring decisions. Set up training and a training outline for employee onboarding. Assist and support Forklift and equipment training and certification. Assist, support, and conduct Product handling / documentation certification. Manage all new hire onboarding and training processes, timelines, and goals. Audit the training processes and training documentation. Develop team knowledge surrounding Lean Six Sigma initiatives. Coach and develop direct reports SOP knowledge and leadership competencies. Assist in keeping the inbound calendar updated. Collaborate with internal departments, ensure that paperwork is completed and provided with in an appropriate time frame Check and ensure that all inbound paperwork has been properly completed and items have been tagged and located before the paperwork is turned into Customer service. Assist in customer calls when needed. Assist in audit processes and procedures Collect and document measure metrics. Assist and support product returns and re-receive processes. Assist and support “Board” meetings with warehouse teams. Lead your team in daily team meetings. Participate and support Gemba walks with warehouse teams no less than weekly. Complete spreadsheets and track performance data for your crew. Manage facility cleanliness, safety, and security. Complete other value-added projects as assigned. Qualifications: Qualifications High School Diploma or GED 1-2 years of warehousing experience. Forklift Certification. Highly proficient with RF Scanners High attention to detail Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Strong interpersonal skills   Preferred Qualifications 2-3 Years of warehousing experience. Team lead/leadership experience. Experience receiving and palletizing bulk products. Experience working for a last mile delivery company. Experience on a double reach truck.   Supervisory Responsibility This position will be responsible for the management of Break Bulk employees. This position will manage the daily production, training, and personnel management, including but not limited to, coaching, development, and disciplinary actions.   Competencies Warehouse Operations Communication Leadership Interpersonal Relationship Management Critical Problem Solving High Attention to Detail Sense of Urgency   Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, lift or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50-100 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to +100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.   Travel No travel is expected for this position.   Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.   Work Environment This job operates in a professional warehouse environment. This role routinely uses forklifts, double electric pallet jacks, manual pallet jacks, handcarts, key racks, pallets, box cutters, RF scanners, and label printers.