Warehouse Shift Leader at Sovereign Foods (2022-04 – Present)
Manage warehouse shift including (4 forklift drivers, 2 reach drivers, 3 cleaners, 1 stock controller, QC clerk and battery bay operator)
- Managing employees' working hours and minimizing overtime
- Ensuring targets are met
- Ensuring that housekeeping principles are complied with
- Maximizing truck utilization
- Engaging with other departments to ensure smooth operations
- Issuing discipline where necessary
- Invoicing and completing paperwork for every load
- Minimizing costs internally
- Minimizing waste of stock
- Leading a team with values and respect
- Controlled warehouse order selection, packaging, and truck loading
- Resolved issues involving dispatched products to maintain high level of customer service
- Supervised and trained warehouse team to uphold safety and compliance with regulations
- Coordinated smooth distribution and allocation of inventory to meet distribution demands
- Stand in for Management when on leave and away
Warehouse Team Leader at CCBSA (2019-08 – 2021-06)
Manage warehouse team for Perseverance site (forklifts, pickers, clerks, admin)
- Managing employees' working hours and minimizing overtime
- Controlled warehouse order selection, packaging and truck loading
- Evaluated crew member performance with reviews, corrective actions and merit awards
- Maintained strict standards by verifying and correcting truck loading
- Rotation of stock
- Engaging with other departments to ensure smooth operations
- Moved loads quickly with safe and smooth operation of forklifts and other equipment
- Issuing discipline where necessary
- Arranging transport for employees
- Minimizing costs internally
- Minimizing waste of stock
- Leading a team with values and respect
- Supported management by handling labor scheduling and tracking, as well as documenting production costs and monitoring cycles
- Optimized shipments and inventory control with skilled use of SAP
- Maximized safety by identifying and eliminating hazards and unsafe behaviors
- Ran staff meetings to inform crew members of production schedules or procedure changes
- Optimized warehouse space to maintained organized inventory
Warehouse Clerk: Stock at CHEP (CCBSA) (2018-02 – 2019-07)
Manage pallets at Lakeside and Perseverance Depots
- Creating invoice PO's and minimizing costs on CHEP hire
- Arrange with distribution returns of pallets to CHEP
- Manage all transactions on portfolio plus and my CHEP
- Running stock counts
- Liaising with Site control around stock movements, stock issue and dates
- TPM
- OOS management
- SD and PD Recon
- Counting stock with HHT scanners and recounts
- Various reports on CHEP in trade and CHEP balances
- Managing CHEP invoices and GRN'ing
Warehouse Administrator at CCFortune (2017-07 – 2018-02)
Manage pallets at Lakeside and Perseverance Depots
- Creating invoice PO's and minimizing costs on CHEP hire
- Arrange with distribution returns of pallets to CHEP
- Manage all transactions on portfolio plus and my CHEP
- Running stock counts
- Liaising with Site control around stock movements, stock issue and dates
- TPM
- OOS management
- SD and PD Recon
- Counting stock with HHT scanners and recounts
- Various reports on CHEP in trade and CHEP balances
- Managing CHEP invoices and GRN'ing
Primary Distribution Team Leader at CCFortune (2016-05 – 2017-06)
- Preparation and submission of weekly, monthly Logistic reports / statistics
- Creating of Purchase Orders and STO's and following up on open PO's
- Executing load plans which include allocating of own hauler drivers & trucks, sourcing outside contractors, creating of purchase orders
- Follow-up 0n delayed loads and lead times
- Liaising with vendors and accounts payable to reduce queried invoices
- Manage fleet Services and Execute (Coastal)
- Manage 29 Permanent drivers
- Monitor drivers for over speeding and Discipline accordingly
- Various Budget Reports on SAP
- Inter Depot Stock Movement (Country Wide)
- Monitor loading of Trucks to Various Destinations
- Planning Weekend work, organizing and executing, when necessary
Logistics Controller at CCFortune (2009-12 – 2016-04)
- Prepare and submit weekly, monthly Logistic reports / statistics
- Creating of Purchase Orders and STO's and following up on open PO's
- Executing load plans which include allocating of own hauler drivers & trucks, sourcing outside contractors, creating of purchase orders
- Follow-up 0n delayed loads and lead times
- Liaising with vendors and accounts payable to reduce queried invoices
- Manage fleet Services and Execute (Country Wide)
- Monitor drivers for over speeding and Discipline accordingly
- Various Budget Reports on SAP
- Inter Depot Stock Movement (Country Wide)
- Monitor loading of Trucks to Various Destinations
- Planning Weekend work, organizing and executing, when necessary
