Facilities Warehouse Technician

Responsibilities

• Prioritize warehouse for unloading, loading, checking items in from properties, and staging items for properties.
• Pick up items from properties, coordinate material deliveries, pick up and distribute items via maintenance ordering systems.
• Operate a variety of powered or manual material handling equipment, inventory control systems, and other related equipment such as scales, calculators, bar code readers, palletizers, shrink wrappers, etc.
• Maintain the work area, practice, and follow all required safety regulations.
• Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for work tasks.
• Receive phone calls from customers, carriers, or truck drivers regarding overages and shortages.
• Investigate and call back with findings.
• Meet schedules, time frames and project deadlines.
• Manage multiple tasks to obtain timely results.
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and handle more than one task at a time and manage interruptions and down time.
• Challenge established work procedures with intent to improve the process.
• Seek other opinions before making decisions; willing to confer with team members to find viable solutions to situations.
• Request or volunteer assistance to others based on workload.
• Share information with team members and others.
• Explore ways to streamline or make the job more effective.
• Effectively manage priorities to meet commitments.
• Generate new ideas/solutions to work situations.
• Apply best practices in innovative ways within the business.
• Using various types of powered lift trucks, transport product from transfer lines or drop zones to locations identified on location ticket.
• Verify part number, quantity, and location accurately.
• Notify the right personnel of wrong or damaged products.
• Assess staged product for proper loading sequence and consolidate partial pallets of product when needed.
• Using proper equipment, move palletized or loose product from shipping staging area in the warehouse, position the pallets or loose pieces in the warehouse.
• Use the proper dunnage such as air bags, lumber, etc. to brace and/or bulkhead, securing the product.
• Pick, verify and load shipments as assigned by supervision or other leaders.
• Special pack product for export, air freight, and LTL shipments when required, assemble, and palletize.
• Perform re-packing of all damaged carton products in accordance with the non-conforming carton standards provided.
• Confirm all picked shipments and replenishments.
• Perform all inventory transactions necessary.
• Absorb minor maintenance and report abnormalities.
• Take initiative to address all process and equipment malfunctions and problems.
• Maintain knowledge of and follow all safety regulations in effect.
• Perform all duties as assigned by supervision.
• Cooperate, collaborate and effectively utilize cross-functional resources.
• Interact with other teams to accomplish goals.
• Communicate, provide feedback and use collaborative decision-making.
• Provide operational information to upper management.
• Receive feedback from upper management and collaborate to achieve goals.
• Daily parts delivery and conduct inventory activities, including physical counts, picking up items from vendors, and distributing items to appropriate properties.

  Requirements

  • Two-year associate degree or a high school diploma with a minimum of three (3) years of experience in warehousing and shipping procedures and methods.
  • Knowledge of Kohler Co. product offering is helpful.
  • Capable of effective oral/written communication.
  • PIV (Powered Industrial Vehicle) Training.
  • Drivers license.

  Skills

  • Operate and load stretch wrapping equipment.
  • Use electronic data entry equipment at a basic level.
  • Have, or learn basic computer skills.

  Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Health, vision, dental benefits.
  • 401(k) with company matching.