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RICHARD KIRKLAND

Honea Path,SC

Summary

Talented Team Leader experienced and dedicated to enhancing employee satisfaction and business success. Diplomatic and friendly with proven commitment to employee training. Hardworking team player bringing necessary experience and knowledge to tackle any operational demand.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Team Lead

Fibertex NonWovens
02.2023 - Current
  • Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
  • Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
  • Worked different stations to provide optimal coverage and meet production goals.
  • Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
  • Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
  • Managed internal operational standards and productivity targets.

Operations Shift Manager

DSV Logistics
01.2020 - 02.2023
  • Plan daily work schedule by reviewing existing work orders, arrival notices, and instructions from customers
  • Assess priorities based on time sensitivity and available resources then assigning duties to appropriate staff in 1.2 million sq ft warehouse
  • Kept employees operating productively and working on task to meet business and customer needs
  • Hold start up and communications meetings for shift to assess group's overall status, discuss ideas for improvement, and keep staff informed of new developments
  • Train new staff in assigned duties, or delegate training responsibility to experienced team members and assess progress of trainees and add additional duties as needed
  • Keep informed of quantity and quality of jobs being performed throughout day, providing guidance and advice as necessary
  • Assign supervisory duties to experienced team members acting as leads for lower-level warehouse staff
  • Attend Birdhouse meeting with Safety and Quality Managers to achieve company goals in terms of injury frequency ratings and other safety metrics
  • Edit and update rosters, work sheets, line ups, and pass down documents.

Team Lead/Supervisor

DSV Logistics
08.2017 - 12.2019
  • Supervise and coordinate unloading of inbound shipments, orderly stacking of product, and picking and staging of outbound shipments in accordance with highest possible levels of productivity
  • Assist associates and temporary labor in completion of productivity data and accurate capture of production and payroll hours
  • Initiate action to prevent occurrence of any non-conformities relating to product, process, and quality system and identify and record any problems while recommending or providing solutions through designated channels
  • Complete building audits and bin to bin accuracy checks
  • Efficiently and accurately oversee loading of orders according to appropriate doors and trailers and research discrepancies that may occur in shipping and receiving process.

General Warehouse Associate

DSV Logistics
02.2014 - 08.2017
  • Unload inbound shipments safely and move product to storage locations and input data accurately in to warehouse management system
  • Pull and prepare product for shipment, ensuring that exact number and type of product is selected
  • Use Forklift and/or Cherry Picker to pick products from picklist while using RF Scanner
  • Read storing list to accurately put product in correct bins
  • Perform safety checks on equipment to be used for day.

Chemical Technician

Fuji Film Inc
08.2010 - 02.2014
  • Weigh and transport chemical batches to assigned dumping area
  • Complete daily safety checks to ensure all work areas are safe to use
  • Loss prevention weekly such as inspecting fire extinguishers and sprinkler systems
  • Monitoring and logging of all PPM data pertaining to all products
  • Disposal of empty chemical containers to proper locations
  • Maintain functions of control room in absence of the Lead/Supervisor
  • Relay to processes when product is low, or in demand of change.

Education

High School Diploma -

Ninety Six High School
Ninety Six, SC
05.2010

Skills

  • Operational Efficiency and Safety
  • Production Monitoring
  • Quality Control
  • Job Assignments
  • Workflow Schedules
  • Company Safety Policies
  • Task Delegation
  • Work Orders
  • Shipment Processing
  • Problem Identification
  • Conflict Resolution Tactics
  • Team Leadership
  • Operational Standards
  • Management

Certification

Dale Carnegie Online Management Courses-Manager's Guide to Sustainable Employee Engagement -Advanced Management-Lead Change Effectively -Communication Excellence-Powerful Conversations to Engage Your Workforce -Communicating with Different Personality Types-Time Management -Communicate Effectively-Step up to Leadership -Secrets of Success in the Digital Age-Secrets to Leading with Assertiveness -Managing Conflict in the Workplace-Leading Strong Teams -Managing Workplace Stress-Goal Setting and Accountability -Disagree Agreeably-Results without Authority -Professional Effectiveness-Front Line Management -Secrets of Motivation

Professional References

Marcus Foster
General Manager at DSV 

Email: marcus.foster@us.dsv.com 

Phone: 864-872-2117


James Gladieux

Retired Operations Manager DSV

Phone: 864-872-2453

Timeline

Team Lead

Fibertex NonWovens
02.2023 - Current

Operations Shift Manager

DSV Logistics
01.2020 - 02.2023

Team Lead/Supervisor

DSV Logistics
08.2017 - 12.2019

General Warehouse Associate

DSV Logistics
02.2014 - 08.2017

Chemical Technician

Fuji Film Inc
08.2010 - 02.2014

High School Diploma -

Ninety Six High School

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