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Christopher Lofton

Moorefield

Summary

Warehouse operations professional with strong leadership skills and hands-on experience in logistics and inventory management. Adept at coordinating teams, optimizing workflows, and ensuring efficient and safe handling of materials. Known for reliability, adaptability, and fostering collaborative work environment to achieve operational goals. Skilled in using warehouse management systems and implementing best practices to drive productivity and accuracy.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Warehouse Lead

Mettler Packaging Plant
03.2025 - Current
  • Trained employees on equipment operation and safety protocols.
  • Managed a team of warehouse personnel, delegating tasks effectively to optimize workflow.
  • Managed day-to-day operations of warehouse, freight and parcel shipments, returns, and transfers.
  • Followed verbal and written instructions to properly move and ship products.
  • Oversaw daily operations and shipping and handling processes.
  • Loaded, unloaded, and sorted cargo as part of accurate and efficient weekly shipments.
  • Moved merchandise using forklifts, pallet jacks and hand trucks.
  • Reviewed order slips, picked products and staged merchandize to be shipped.
  • Moved pallets to and from trucks and around warehouse with forklifts to stay on top of demanding schedules.
  • Supervised and trained new staff in performing census.
  • Prepared and checked outbound shipments for accuracy.

Regional Operations Manager

Gallus Poultry Op
06.2024 - 03.2025
  • Coordinated with other regional managers to share best practices, streamline processes, and improve overall organizational effectiveness.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction through effective communication and problem-solving strategies.
  • Monitored and analyzed performance data, identifying areas of improvement and developing corrective action plans.
  • Overseen the operation of 35 poultry houses, with a total of 1.2 million square feet.
  • Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
  • Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.
  • Operated several different types of equipment/computers to maintain bird health/performance.

Broiler Service Tech

Pilgrim’s Pride
03.2021 - 06.2024
  • Responsible for monitoring bird mortality, feed conversion, sizing and scheduling.
  • Works with 22 contracted farmers to help monitor house conditions and provide recommendations to improve bird performance and reduce the overall cost for the company along with the farmer.
  • Tracks, records, and analyzes bird mortality rates.
  • Maintains feed tank inventories and orders feed when necessary.
  • Improved broiler productivity by implementing efficient feeding strategies and monitoring growth rates.
  • Managed daily operations for successful broiler production, including feed management, temperature control, and ventilation adjustments.

Shipping, Paint Line, Spray Line and Roll-coat Manager/Supervisor/Team Leader/Laborer

American Woodmark
04.2014 - 03.2021
  • Maintain more than 35 employees on a daily basis including two team leaders.
  • Scheduling of vacation and several different teams to help complete the production needs for the day.
  • Attendance of several meetings daily to provide feedback and improve processes within the team.
  • Temporary managerial duties of the production and finishing of product while managing more than sixty employees including fellow supervisors.
  • Scheduling delivery of material throughout the plant including chop stock.
  • Directly dealt with client plants to provide the best customer service within the Shipping department, including corporate testing material.
  • Involvement on teams to improve flow and new layouts for the department working directly with the materials team on any material that was past due.

Foreman/Process Scheduler

Hydrocarbon Gas and Well Service
06.2011 - 04.2014
  • Led a crew of 5 employees setting up rigs along with well locations preparation.
  • Worked with environmentalist on well information.
  • Operated various types of equipment from mulcher to dozer reclaiming all landscape to meet requirements of what it looked like before job was started.
  • Worked 10-12 hour days 7 days a week most of the work being completed out of town in the areas of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
  • Completed morning meetings to ensure proper communication between the team and set expectations of what was needed to be done for the workday.

Education

High School Diploma -

Moorefield High School
01.2011

2-year completion of carpentry certification - undefined

Petersburg Vocational School

Skills

  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Creativity
  • Leadership
  • Decision making
  • Adaptability
  • Management
  • Teamwork
  • Supervisory experience
  • Time management
  • Customer service
  • Order picking

Awards

Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification, Completed the Leadership Development Course (LDC), Completed and lead three out of four Kaizen Events., OSHA 10 Certification

Timeline

Warehouse Lead

Mettler Packaging Plant
03.2025 - Current

Regional Operations Manager

Gallus Poultry Op
06.2024 - 03.2025

Broiler Service Tech

Pilgrim’s Pride
03.2021 - 06.2024

Shipping, Paint Line, Spray Line and Roll-coat Manager/Supervisor/Team Leader/Laborer

American Woodmark
04.2014 - 03.2021

Foreman/Process Scheduler

Hydrocarbon Gas and Well Service
06.2011 - 04.2014

2-year completion of carpentry certification - undefined

Petersburg Vocational School

High School Diploma -

Moorefield High School

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