Assistant Team Leader

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Full-time Regular Mickleton, NJ, US

This position will support the Team Leader by leading a team of people and coordinating activities to achieve business goals, through focusing on continuous improvement and promoting a team-based culture. A percentage of time will be spent supporting operational activities and the balance will be handling administrative functions.

Candidates are expected to learn, embrace, fully understand, and work within “The Unipart Way” while adopting lean management principles and approach.

• Ensure Environmental, Health & Safety requirements are met
  • Comply with Health & Safety policies and procedures
  • Identify & report hazards including near-misses, incidents, and accidents
  • Keep work areas clean and tidy.
• Ensure through good communication and personal example that employees understand the objectives of Unipart’s safety policies and hold employees accountable if they are not following policies
• Responsible for accident reporting and undertaking accident investigations with the assistance of the Health & Safety Manager when necessary. Implement appropriate preventative action using tools learned through Health & Safety trainings.
• Responsible for the issue, use and maintenance of personal protective equipment provided to employees where necessary.
• Monitor the correct use of personal protective equipment & material handling equipment. Coach employees in the correct use and hold employees accountable when not following proper procedures.
• Ensure secure measures are in place and proper guidelines followed to ensure the safeguard of Unipart/Client inventory. Report anything suspicious immediately to your Manager, the H&S Manager and Human Resources.

• Ensure health & safety, housekeeping and security standards are maintained for your assigned area of operation
• Achieve and demonstrate steps to exceed business targets including but not limited to efficiency levels, accuracy levels, product damage and stock integrity. Awareness of Key Performance Indicators’ and how they are calculated
• Allocate work based on resource planning provided by Team Leader and monitor throughout the day
• Use of MHE such as:
  Forklift, Reach truck, Sit-down counter balance, High level order picker, (Cherry picker)
• Raise any issues with resource planning and/or meeting KPI’s with your Manager as soon as practicable
• Awareness of indirect versus direct hours and manage accordingly; ensure employees are working within the hours set for them
• Manage the use of additional resources with the agreement of your manager such as additional hours, overtime, agency or temporary staff within limits set by the Ops Manager or DC Manager
• Ensure that through the effective control of resources all operational deadlines and standards within area of responsibility are met
• Feedback results of any change to the team
• Facilitate team meetings and raise team’s awareness on critical issues surrounding performance
• Ensure that visual management tools are updated and being used in the correct way so that the benefit is recognized
• Establish a positive working relationship with internal and external customers
• Ensure Customer Service requests are resolved in a timely fashion and through the proper channels
• Responsible for daily reports & Standard Operating Procedures
• Provide support on client tours and new business activities

• Ensure that all DCO’s are trained and coached to a high standard
• In some instances, the ATL will be responsible for preparing and delivering the DCO appraisal…