Chad Foreman
Abilene,TX
Summary
22 years experience in customer service
15 years experience on the Forklift and about 4 years experience on other heavy equipment.
14 years management experience in the grocery business.
4 years experience as a Senior Lead in warehouse receiving.
16 years experience doing inventory
34 years of practicing safety and maintaining good safe practices and procedures.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Warehouse Lift Truck Operator
Pactiv Evergreen
Abilene, TX
04.2024 - Current
- Retrieved customer orders by locating them in the warehouse with the lift truck.
- Accurately recorded any discrepancies found while unloading or loading merchandise into computer system.
- Stacked products on pallets in a safe manner for transport or storage purposes.
- Load and unload trucks.
- Supply production with materials.
- Organize and clean warehouse.
- Keep proper maintenance on the forklifts.
- Maintain a safe and neat workplace.
- Utilized RF scanner technology for accurate tracking of product movements.
- Assisted with inventory control activities including cycle counts.
- Moved pallets within warehouse locations as required.
Warehouse Supervisor
Metal Mart
Abilene , TX
03.2023 - 04.2024
- Coordinated with transportation companies for timely delivery of goods.
- Directed receiving, warehousing, distribution and maintenance services.
- Assisted with scheduling shipments and deliveries according to customer requirements.
- Performed regular inspections of equipment, facilities, and personnel safety practices.
- Loading trucks and trailers for customers.
- Unloading of special orders.
- Maintaining an accurate inventory.
- Placing orders and entering invoices, BOLs, and POs into the computer.
- Forklift Operator (lifting steel from 100 to 40,000 lbs.)
Receiving Senior Lead
Abimar Foods
Abilene , Texas
06.2019 - 03.2023
- Managed inventory and supplies to ensure materials were available when needed.
- Receiving trucks of raw materials, ingredients, and maintenance supplies.
- Shipping of finished product to the warehouses.
- Organize the warehouse neatly and safely to store raw materials and ingredients.
- Inventory every week plus a year end Inventory.
- Entering BOLs and invoices into SAP to maintain inventory.
- Directing leads and other forklift Operators to take care of production floor, mixers, warehouse, Quality Assurance, maintenance, sanitation, and specific manager needs.
- Communicating with managers, supervisors, vendors, all departments, shuttle drivers, and production workers to keep them supplied with the assistance they need.
- Working with the buyers and the North Plant to make sure we have plenty of ingredients and materials. Also working with the shuttle drivers to provide transport of items that I have to go load myself at the warehouses.
Assistant Manager
Lawrence Brothers Supermarkets
Roswell, New Mexico
12.2013 - 06.2019
- Ensured compliance with safety regulations and company policies.
- Communicated regularly with customers to gain insights into their needs.
- Opening and closing store.
- Managing 33 employees.
- Ordering
- Inventory quarterly
- Office duties (counting tills, customer service, running the register, and balancing the books).
- Stocking, cleaning, and straightening the product on the shelves and displays.
- Sign making and sales strategies.
- Maintaining and organizing the back warehouse.
- Receiving
- Working with the department heads in meetings each week to make sure the departments are maintained and that sales goals are met.
- Let me just add here that there was not a department that I had not worked by this point in my career.
- Forklift Operator
- Safety Coordinator
Education
Bachelors - Business Computer Science
American Commercial College - Abilene
Abilene, TX08.1995
Skills
- Customer service
- Inventory Staging
- Materials Handling
- Certified Forklift Operator
- Equipment Inspections
- Management
- Materials Transport
- Inventory Reporting
- Loading and Unloading
- OSHA Workplace Safety
- Inventory Counts
- Forklift Operation
- CPR Training
- Warehouse Operations
- Safety Awareness
- Warehouse Management
- Inventory Control
- Equipment Maintenance
- Manufacturing and Warehouse Procedures
Timeline
Warehouse Lift Truck Operator
Pactiv Evergreen
04.2024 - Current
Warehouse Supervisor
Metal Mart
03.2023 - 04.2024
Receiving Senior Lead
Abimar Foods
06.2019 - 03.2023
Assistant Manager
Lawrence Brothers Supermarkets
12.2013 - 06.2019
Bachelors - Business Computer Science
American Commercial College - Abilene