Frederick Cruz
Forked River,NJ
Summary
Self-motivated, bilingual Warehouse supervisor with solid experience managing all levels of projects, continuously improving customer care, and finding opportunities to increase efficiency. Offering an array of critical skills in labor management, Quality assurance, leadership, and accurate data tracking. Demonstrated proficiency in partnering with leadership to maximize employee production and achieve organizational goals. Started as a forklift operator and ended up a supervisor. Team work makes the dream work.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Distribution Lead
Knipper Health
Lakewood, NJ
01.2022 - Current
- Ensure that paperwork and databases are updated as close to real time as possible and contain accurate and up-to-date information, assist in managing 50% of the day-to-day Operations to focus on maintenance and enhancement of accuracy of work-in-progress and standing inventories, Deploy labor, equipment, and systems focused on achieving benchmarks and productivity requirements for assigned jobs, also verifying all medications/drugs leaving the facility in a timely manner with correct expiration date and correct dozes.
- Maintain workflow at consistent pace balancing acceptable levels of movement safety and performance.
- Coordinate daily order fulfillment in fast-paced receiving and shipping environment.
- Oversee picking, stocking and receiving procedures.
Supervisor
Component Hardware
Lakewood, NJ
06.2004 - 12.2021
- Responsible for overseeing supply chain process, liaise with customers and suppliers, manages, and supervises employees on their performance, and ensures that safety regulations are meet.
- Pack and ship orders, organizing and retrieving stock in warehouse to increase efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
- Ensure storage areas and warehouse are kept clean which includes identifying areas where processes could be improved, work practices amended, and that all areas are free of safety hazards.
- Utilizes available resources to maintain knowledge of warehouse statuses, and to monitor shipments and deliveries.
- Evaluated employee performance and coached and trained to improve weak areas.
- Mentored newly hired employees on operating equipment and safety and developed training manual to use for reference.
- Communicates effectively with team members to resolve any issue or problem that may arise to ensure orders are fulfilled.
- Prepare and process all paperwork in relation to shipping, receiving, or assembling of orders, as well as processing invoices for each delivery.
- Assists line placing orders on pallets as quickly and efficiently as possible to achieve production goals.
- Collaborates with other departments to maintain effective relationships and ensure organizational goals are meet
- Responds to questions and concerns from production and plant support personnel, coordinates operational reviews with other functions, and assists with identifying and implementing new or updated operations.
- Serves as role model in promoting positive work environment by practicing good communication, diversity awareness, and teamwork.
- I have worked with the following operating systems (D mass, Manhattan scale, Navision.
- Interviewed, hired and trained new employees for production positions.
- Pulled, verified, and packaged items for shipment
- Supervised shipping/Receiving team of 18 employees
Education
High school diploma -
Norman Thomas High School
09.2004
Skills
- Leadership
- Oral/Written Communication
- Operations
- Supply Chain Management
- Time Management
- Process Improvement
- Scheduling
- Project Coordination
- Forklift Operation
- Safety Guidelines/OSHA
- Inventory control
- Management
- Warehouse Supervisor Experience
- Warehouse Management
- Forklift Driver
- Warehouse experience
- Communication skills
- Computer literacy
- Organizational skills
- Freight Experience
- Logistics
- Quality Assurance/ Quality Control
- SAP
- Shipping & Receiving Supervisor
- Inventory Control
- Prepare Orders
- OSHA Forklift Trainer certification
- Materials Movement
- Knowledge of FIFO system
- SOP
Timeline
Distribution Lead
Knipper Health
01.2022 - Current
Supervisor
Component Hardware
06.2004 - 12.2021
High school diploma -
Norman Thomas High School