Warehouse Lead Job
Location:
Middleton, MA, United States
Employment Type:
Regular
Category:
Logistics
Posting Date:
Jul 29, 2025
Bostik Middleton is hiring a Warehouse Lead.
We are offering a $1,500 Sign-on Bonus!
Health Benefits starting on DAY 1 of your Employment!
Job dimensions
- Leads a team of 8-10
- Guides Logistics personnel including job assignments, training, scheduling, and OT reduction.
- Actively promotes and advances plant safety and PSM improvements though Smart and CARES program
- Leads 5S/Housekeeping initiatives in their area and accountable for department personnel doing the same
- Champions Continuous Improvement through shop floor use of problem-solving tools (5W1H) and leading Tier meetings.
- Effectively communicates gaps with potential solutions and initiatives to engineering, leadership, and operators across all shifts
- Develops and challenges Logistics team to improve their respective shifts while providing objective feedback to leadership and operators
- Utilizes KPIs to make sound decisions and analyze gaps within process
- Creates a positive culture within the department that emphasizes safety, quality, productivity
- Leads on-floor implementation of site initiatives such as behavior-based safety, continuous improvement, and 5S
- Works with Logistics manager to meet both Shipping and Cycle Count goals that meets customer requirements and allocates plant resources to meet the plan
- Sets the tone for the department, ability to have tough conversations with underperforming operators in department
- Interacts with Supply Chain and Customer Service teams as needed
- Manages Logistics consumables inventory items
Activities
- Practice and enforce safe work habits in accordance with OSHA and EPA guidelines, and Bostik specific EHS expectations.
- Leads and coordinates daily warehouse activities to meet plant OTS goals.
- Ensure all available shipping orders have pick lists created for both warehouses.
- Adjust distribution of workforce as needed to meet Shipping and Receiving demand or fill in for absence.
- Make regular rounds of warehouse floor to identify and correct issues as it pertains to safety, quality, housekeeping and production issues
- Lead Logistics team in daily continuous improvement of safety, quality, housekeeping and productivity.
- Ensure production floor KPI’s are tracked daily, and corrective actions are identified and implemented.
- Reviews training matrix for employees are being filled and that training is advancing in a timely fashion
- Leads team-oriented problem solving to identify and eliminate root causes of safety, quality and production concerns using RCA problem solving tools.
- Assist in Transportation scheduling, booking, closing shipping and receiving orders including troubleshooting/resolving issues
- Ensures completion of weekly cycle counts and train other operators in department on process
- Coach on troubleshooting, problem solving and report out on department operator performance
- Maintain full compliance and support for overall company policies, procedures and practices.
- Complete and ensure Logistics team adheres to site-wide 5S Program.
- Driving housekeeping and department improvements withing the logistics team.
- Promoting Plant Leadership objectives and executing vision on the ground floor with other operators
Context and Environment
- The job is 60% on the shop floor working directly with production employees, 40% administrative duties
Accountabilities
- Logistics team adherence to Bostik safety policy and procedures
- Ensure Logistics team follows process work instructions to ensure quality of production
- Completion of the Shipping plan daily
Qualifications / Experience Required
- Highschool / GED
- Leadership skills
- Must have the ability to work well with others in a team environment.
- Excellent communication skills
- Good time management and multitasking skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
- Transactional experience within SAP or other ERP system.
- Prior fork truck, reach truck, scissor lift and isle stacker experience
- Hazardous Material Certifications a plus
Job Segment:
Shipping and Receiving, Logistics, Forklift, Warehouse, Environmental Health & Safety, Operations, Manufacturing, Healthcare