Chip Adams

• Operate and maintain necessary power industrial vehicles to facilitate migration of variable quantities of merchandise.
• Identify, locate, obtain, and manage diverse products to support fulfillment of current customer-driven orders.
• Utilize employer specific programs to retrieve data dictating current workload, priorities and goals.
• Leverage proprietary information in order to assist with maintaining proper fill levels of appropriate product in the OSR, fulfilling future orders and accelerating order completion.
• Train new team members, supplying instruction on vital processes while providing 120+ hours of training on different power industrial vehicles needed to complete role-specific tasks.
• Maintain compliance within all safety and electrostatic procedures established by DigiKey.
• Engage in all mandatory team meetings, trainings, supervisory one-on-ones, and annual performance reviews.
• Contribute to numerous management-allocated tasks aligned with specialized skills of 3rd shift pallet picking specialists.
• Be fluid, flexible, available, and prepared to satisfy the needs of many different functions in the event of an absence.

• Properly package and ship firearms to various locations across the country.
• File all required paperwork, including federal background checks, federal firearms licenses and state specific paperwork regarding permission to ship customer orders.
• Organize and maintain current stock in an effective manner to ensure no damage or loss occur.
• Assemble/disassemble firearms when required, for various purposes.
• Perform daily tasks such as restocking supplies, shoveling snow, making deliveries, answering phones and sending/responding to emails.
• Administer federal background checks regarding customer firearm purchases.

• Lead and supervise a team of 20-25 associates in collaboration with two peers.
• Operate and maintain certification regarding all machinery including, forklift, scissor lift, walkie stacker, and electric pallet jack.
• Maintain a manager on duty status responsible for the security, productivity, merchandise, deliveries, and emergencies all relative to a multimillion dollar shopping center.
• Evaluate and acknowledge company needs while distributing tasks based on unique employee skillsets and task hours allotted.
• Coordinate and host events or meetings associated with disciplinary actions, terminations, and onboarding, along with all recurring and newly assigned trainings.
• Manage all incoming, current, and overstock freight associated with the consumable departments occasionally adding the responsibility of general merchandise.
• Oversee a specialized team of designated people tasked with price changes, seasonal movement of appropriate product, and changing of floor plans regarding product locations.
• Unload arriving shipments of fresh produce and meats in a safe and timely manner.
• Daily tours of the facility with management to ensure a seamless transition between arriving and departing shifts keeping communication and proper shift change checklists up to date and accurate.
• Follow up consistently on progression of tasks throughout the shift ensuring all tasks get completed in a timely matter.
• Adhered to all safety and compliance procedures.
• Identified, communicated, and celebrated company set goals driven by metrics based on team performance.
• Invoked a positive work environment amongst associates, at the same time promoting team work and collaboration while striving for success in everyday operations.

• Retain licensing, operate, and service all essential heavy equipment, power tools, small engine powered rental equipment, and fleet vehicles including forklifts, pickup trucks, flat beds, box truck, skid steers, concrete tamper, table saws, ETC.
• Maintain yard equipment by completing immediate repairs while keeping up to date on routine maintenance.
• Upkeep of the shipping yard, related properties, and outlying buildings using small engine powered tools to manage weeds, gravel grating, and other small tasks.
• Use of skid steers and large trucks for tasks such as snow removal.
• building repairs including construction ranging from constructing walls, installing floors and sealing roofs
• Utilize a variety of tools to cut lumber, plywood, rebar, and to bend sheet metal per customer request.
• Operate forklifts to assist in assembling customer orders and loading product onto delivery vehicles.
• Driving various delivery vehicles loaded with thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars of merchandise to destinations sometimes 4+ hours away.
• Communicating with customers and fulfilling delivery instructions upon arrival.
• Safely and efficiently unload product following all special handling procedures required.
• Unload daily deliveries via semi tractor and trailer. Organizing said shipments while putting them in the corresponding locations.
• Helping customers locate/choose the correct product for the job.

Note: At this time I was in touch with many contractors that we supplied during the week, on my weekends away from the yard I spent many days on cash jobs alongside framers, plumbers, electricians, roofers, masons, and anyone else with an opportunity I could take advantage of.

I have served a purpose on many different job sites using many different skills.

• Assisted customers with menu selections and answered questions about food items.
• Operated cash register efficiently and accurately, processed payments by cash, check, credit card, gift card or automatic debit.
• Accepted cash and credit card payments, issued receipts and provided change.

Note: This is a job I worked as a teenager, the experience may not apply to the person receiving this resume. Regardless it is one of many examples of my willingness to be a part of the work force, learn new things, and delve into responsibility with a positive attitude.

• Delivered newspapers to designated routes efficiently and on schedule.
• Adapted to weather conditions while delivering newspapers consistently and reliably.
• Developed positive relationships with customers to enhance service experience.

Note: Again, I know the experience probably doesn't apply to whomever received this resume. With that being said I have maintained responsibility and taken pride in my work since a very young age.