1st Shift Label Lead

Alene Candles LLC & Midwest is a private label, contract manufacturer that produces high-quality candles for some of the world’s most recognized retail, boutique, and cosmetic brands. With our headquarters in New Hampshire and locations in Ohio, we’ve been in business for over 25 years. We are passionate about making the best products in the world, making safety our number one priority, and being an insanely great place to work.

Shift: 6:30am-2:30pm Monday-Friday

Job Summary

Is responsible for all duties of label clerk, listed below. Will also assist in training clerks in all aspects of duty. Monitor’s email and orders for discrepancy issues, and cycle counts to correct these issues as they arise. Ensures duties are distributed amongst label clerks across all shifts. Track’s inventory of mylars and other blank labels, and notifies Quality Administrator in time to get more ordered. Monitors and evaluates the work of label clerks, coaching as needed. Sends email at the end of shift with relevant details.

Accurately receives labels into stock with the appropriate part numbers, quantities, system transactions, location identifiers, and stocking locations. Ensures labels are easily identifiable in order to be issued accurately. Accurately establishes and maintains bin locations within the system and physically in the label area. Receives and issues labels to the appropriate work order, validating correctness with extra focus on matching domestic and international to the right work orders. Prints BME labels, tracking date codes. Maintains accurate inventory by doing the appropriate bin transactions and issue documentation and system entries. Conducts cycle counts as required and work with finance to accurately adjust on hand balances. Pulls, stages, and issues label components for production jobs. Issues date codes, ensuring accuracy of batch tracking. Creates carton labels for new finished goods, and ensures they are readily identifiable to the appropriate work order. Insure items signed out properly to the line leaders and enter inventory transactions for all materials pulled. When excess is returned to stock, ensures documentation is correct and on hand balances are accurately and correctly entered into the system. Uses scale to get precision counts of returned labels and splices smaller rolls together.

3-5 Essential Job Functions

• Must be able to work within and navigate our ERP system (IFS) to issue materials to the appropriate order.
• Stage and issue side and bottom labels as required per work order instructions.
• Send batch information electronically to ShopVue systems on production floor.
• Following each run materials should be returned to reconcile components at the end of each work order.
• Properly transfer labels to and from storage bins, ensuring accuracy in all transactions.
• Cycle Counting Steps including approvals

Requirements

3-5 Vital Soft Skills

• Ability to read and interpret information on shop orders and provide accurate counts for labels.
• Effective verbal and oral communication skills; need to interact with several line leaders during the course of the day and ensure their needs are met in a timely manner.
• Ability to operate label printer equipment and troubleshoot any problems.
• Ability to work accurately, with interruptions, to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to exercise flexibility, initiative, and good judgment.

Range of Experience Required

At least 6 months to 1 year of relevant experience required for the role or demonstrated solid administrative skills.

Education Level Required

High School diploma or general education degree (GED).

Additional Abilities Valuable for Success

Basic knowledge of computers. Basic math skills. Understanding of Inventory functions. Data entry required and the ability to function in IFS system in order to enter transactions.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or touch; reach, talk, hear and smell. The employee may be required to, kneel, crouch, sit, climb, or balance. The employee may lift and/or move up to more than 50 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee may be regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, and aromas. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the physical demands and work environment.

Benefits

Alene Candles provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Should you require assistance completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact recruitment@alene.com or call 614-933-4005 and ask to speak to Human Resources. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs in a reasonable amount of time.