Warehouse Lead - Cranford, NJ

Hi, we’re Nuts.com!

We’re changing the landscape of snacking on nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and more! We planted our roots in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression, selling premium nuts on Mulberry Street’s open-air market.  We’ve come quite a long way since then, taking our multi-generational family business online in 1999. Even after 95 years, we continue to pride ourselves in expertly sourcing the highest quality foods and treating our customers like family.  

What’s our team like? We’re driven, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. Energy and passion power our business and we look for candidates who share in that excitement to help us continue to build something special.

The role

The Warehouse Lead serves as the primary point of contact for warehouse associates in NJ2. This role is responsible for driving productivity, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, supporting the overall morale and engagement of the team, and working side-by-side with staff to get the work done. The Warehouse Lead fosters an inclusive, team-oriented environment while ensuring smooth daily operations. This position reports directly to the Warehouse Supervisor.

What you'll do

• Manage a team of up to 5 employees and monitor daily attendance and production goals, while providing support and coaching to ensure associates achieve established performance metrics
• Lead daily pre-shift stand-up meetings, including safety stretches, shift priorities, productivity targets, and company updates
• Maintain, update, and analyze existing productivity tools in Google Suites (Docs, Sheets, etc.) on a computer
• Responsible for the team's adherence to safety, quality and food safety policies and escalation of concerns to the appropriate manager
• Ensure the team is prepared with the necessary resources for their shift
• Complete work alongside associates, ensuring one meets their own productivity goals
• Operate power industrial vehicles (PIVs) to accomplish work
• Support in onboarding of new associates
• Other duties as assigned

What you'll bring

• Ability to work a full time schedule Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday, 7AM - 5:30 PM
• Experience operating PIVs
• Able to complete physical work and lift up to 50 lbs
• Able to stand for on average of up to 10 hours per shift
• Able to work in a facility with various allergens, including milk, wheat, eggs, shellfish, sesame, peanuts, fish, tree nuts, and soy
• A strong sense of urgency to complete work in a timely manner
• Extremely detail oriented
• Excellent work ethic, always on time and reliable
• Able to communicate respectfully, effectively, and professionally with peers and managers, verbally and in writing
• High school diploma, or its equivalent, or 2+ years’ experience in a warehouse or food production environment