DC Retail Lead
Fort Payne, ALFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Area Lead provides daily shift leadership, mentors and trains associates, and updates the Operations Supervisor on team progress. The role addresses product and freight issues, supports shift goals and action plans, and helps maintain productivity, quality, cleanliness, and safety. It also allocates work, conducts daily workstation audits, and stands in for the Supervisor in an operations capacity as needed.
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Distribution Center - Southeast
Full time
R000032138
Location:
Fort Payne, Alabama
Job Summary:
The Area Lead is responsible for daily shift leadership, mentoring, and training, while providing the Operations Supervisor with updates on work progress of the team, resolving different product/freight issues, and handling any product/freight concerns to communicate to the Operations Supervisor.
Responsibilities:
Key Accountabilities:
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Responsible for training associates in all departmental and Company safety procedures
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Daily oversight of the Shift with Operations Supervisor guidance
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Assist with administrative functions of associates
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Job allocation to associates to include daily follow up of KPIs with the Operations Supervisor
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Monitoring and mentoring of associates on productivity, quality, cleanliness, and safety.
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Responsible of shift goals and associated action plans
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Preparing and implementing training plans for associates.
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Conduct audits for 5s for work stations on a daily basis.
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Stand in for Supervisor in an operations capacity as needed
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Consistently partner with Supervisor on any product flow or shipment issues
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Upholds excellent customer service to our internal and external customers
Education and Requirements:
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Must have the ability to train and develop others
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Minimum of one year of related experience and/or training with demonstrated competency in developing associates and teams
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Strong analytical skills
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Basic PC skills are required and experience and knowledge of Warehouse Management Systems. PKMS background preferred
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Regularly required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally required to sit and stoop, bend, reach, kneel, crouch, push, pull, or crawl. The associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus
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Stand/Walk for up to 12 hours during shifts.
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Work in an environment where the noise level varies and can be loud.
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Work in an environment that is subject to variable temperatures and weather
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Continuously climb and descend stairs
The Children's Place is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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Being a part of our team takes collaboration and hard work. We are seeking top talent who are eager to contribute to a high-performing team!
We are proud to be the largest pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer in North America and continue to celebrate the success of our collection of brands, including The Children’s PLACE, Gymboree, Sugar & Jade and PJ PLACE.
If you are eager to learn and work in a diverse, inclusive, fast-paced and engaging work environment, please review our current list of openings and apply today!
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,729 open Warehouse Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$69–90K/yr342 salary ranges
- US median$22–24/hr695 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Warehouse Operations jobs in Alabama and 1,729 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Warehouse Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (915 postings).
- Education
- 71 of the 1,729 open Warehouse Operations jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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