Warehouse IV Lead

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Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe? At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader.

With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe.

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality.

This is a critical role within Warehouse, which will assist to make daily operational decisions for effective and consistent management of the warehouse area. The key task is to ensure work orders are maintained daily, material supply is planned and available to meet production needs, and understand the production plan while still maintaining the highest levels of quality, hygiene and safety through all warehouse activities.

Sound warehouse knowledge is essential, high level of attention to detail and team support.

• Release production work orders 24 hours in advance ensuring materials are ready for production
• Review work order missing parts list and create orders with external warehouse provider for delivery 24 hours prior to use, and plan loads being received. Ensure these pallets are received on time and in full.
• Create drive orders continuously for materials being issued to production, ensuring no downtime to the production lines
• Ensure that all packaging and raw materials are properly rotated on a First Expired First Out (FEFO) basis, verify and assist to investigate as and when needed
• Ensure that partial pallets are delivered to the line first to prevent multiple partial pallets of the same resource.
• Count and investigate any issues with materials as and when required, BACKFLUSH items need to be counted daily, moved to the LACON bin and make request for stock at external warehouse. This is to complete critical and needs to be updated daily. LACON will need to be verified daily and updated with accurate count (hand over to Supervisor to process IE on JDE)
• At 4:00am daily, allocate line runners to check LA21 & LA22, communicate stock that needs to be consumed or scanned to line bins.
• Monitor LA23 and initiate the return process
• Be certified and competent in all dry warehouse modules to be able to assist the team out when necessary
• Communicate and maintain good housekeeping in all Dry Warehouse storage areas.
• Communicate with Production Team and Quality Team as appropriate to ensure smooth operation and timely resolution of any issues.
• Keep team informed of department performance, quality, efficiency and safety.
• Be certified on safe operation of all Material Handling Equipment.
• Instill a sense of urgency within the team to accomplish goals and tasks.
• Ensure team members attend shift hand offs.
• Follow, monitor, and understand all GMP/HACCP/QMS and product safety regulations.
• Keep waste to a minimum in all Warehouse activities, coach teams if any incidents or on identification.
• Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.

• Service Level to production
• Inventory Control
• Health & Safety
• Team management
• Training and development of the warehouse teams
• Impeccable hygiene standards always adopting “clean as you go” principles
• All material handling equipment

• Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish
• Make sound decisions and get into the right level of…