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# Warehouse Lead 2nd Shift at AHEAD

- **Company:** AHEAD
- **Location:** 1980 Technology Way Libertyville, IL
- **Compensation:** $26–$29/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/f40a030a-84ef-47ca-b952-0c2a92a4624a

## Job description

AHEAD is seeking a motivated and results-oriented Lead Warehouse Associate to join our team! In this role, you will assist with the daily operations of our shipping warehouse while ensuring a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. You will lead a team of warehouse associates, delegate tasks, and ensure orders are fulfilled accurately and on time.

Responsible for the picking, packaging, and receiving of customer order items into the shipping department and shipping those orders in a manner that meets AHEAD's standards for safety, security, quality, and productivity.

This is a full-time 2nd shift position, and hours of work and days are typically Monday through Friday, 3:30pm to Midnight CST. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Duties/Responsibilities

- Lead a team of warehouse associates, motivating them to achieve and maintain a high level of productivity and accuracy
- Help Manager identify staffing needs and delegate tasks assigning labor as receipt-stocking-pick workflow dictates
- Help to oversee warehouse receiving, material movement, and picking of warehouse purchase orders and work orders by actively contributing to those tasks while setting expectations and meeting KPI
- Ensure adherence to safety protocols and procedures, maintaining a safe working environment for all employees
- Collaborate with other departments, such as sales/account coordinators and production staff, to ensure smooth operations
- Maintain and manage accurate warehouse inventory and receipt/picking records including cycle count initiatives and complete stock inventory accuracy
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy
- Train new warehouse associates and provide ongoing coaching and development to the team
- Address departmental inquiries or requests and resolve any order fulfillment issues
- Maintain a clean, organized, and well-maintained warehouse environment
- Assist with planning and leading departmental and continuous improvement projects
- Assist with troubleshooting and root cause identification for receiving and picking errors and corrective/preventative action initiatives
- Contributes to creating, improving, and training on SOPs and Dozuki documentation
- Leading and assisting in 5s implementation, adherence, and audits
- Duties assigned by Supervisor or Manager
- Backup Warehouse Associate 1, 2, & 3 roles
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow step-by-step instructions
- Ability to adjust and follow instructions in a fast-paced environment
- Contributes to the completing of projects on time, using project management software to manage the projects

Education/Experience

- Required education and experience.
- High school diploma and 2-3 years’ experience in a warehouse shipping environment, preferably in a supervisory or lead role
- Ability to read and write English, follow verbal instructions, and use simple math.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a team.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in warehouse management principles and best practices.
- Experience with warehouse management systems (WMS) a plus.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills – Microsoft Office Experience required, MS TEAMS experience preferred.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Operate an electric pallet jack (required) and Stand-Up Reach Truck (preferred).

Physical Demands

- This job operates in a professional warehouse and production environment.
- Physical Demands (the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.)
- They are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is
- required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Ability to lift 50+ pounds on a repetitive basis
- Ability to work on feet 8+ hours a day
- No travel is expected for this position.

## About AHEAD

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services
- **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint.

## Products & Services
- **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)*
- **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)*
- **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)*
- **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)*
- **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)*
- **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)*
- **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)*
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)*
- **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials).
- **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape.
- **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion.
- **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.
- **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software.
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion.

## Sources
1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/)
2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/)
3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/)
4. [AHEAD Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead)

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