Dock Associate

About the role

Chair King® Backyard Store was founded in Houston in 1950 and has grown to be the largest casual furniture retailer in Texas. Chair King® Backyard Store is family-owned and operated, assuring continuity for employees and customers. The company is customer service-driven and strives for quality in every aspect of its business, offering the finest quality merchandise at the lowest possible prices. Employee development and empowerment sustain Chair King's competitive advantage.

The iconic Fortunoff® brand returned to the New York/New Jersey market with the opening of seven Fortunoff® Backyard Store locations in February 2010. The chain now operates 27 locations across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, providing one-stop shopping for outdoor furniture with multiple table-size options at great prices.

This position involves the preparation work necessary for delivery of merchandise as well as basic warehouse functions. The position will occasionally require the employee to work overtime hours.

Responsibilities

• Unwrap and assemble furniture at the assigned dock
• Clean and inspect merchandise for errors and defects
• Touch up merchandise as needed
• Re-wrap merchandise for delivery
• Stage merchandise for delivery truck loading
• Assist with Customer Pick-ups (CPUs)
• Unload receiving inventory containers and trucks
• Complete other duties as assigned by warehouse leadership team

Qualifications

Supervisory responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or experience: Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language skills: Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Reasoning ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Certificates, licenses, registrations: None required.

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• Frequently required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and outside weather conditions
• Noise level is usually very loud