Regional Distribution Center - Warehouse Associate

Position Description

Pay Rate: $20.00/hour

Key Responsibilities

• Prioritize and pick materials to fill orders, stage products for outbound loading, and handle all units with care.
• Load and Unload Trailers/Containers: Physically move and lift products weighing up to 150 pounds; stage, count, and systematically put away inventory using powered industrial equipment.
• Perform periodic facilities maintenance and/or custodial/housekeeping tasks, such as cleaning the loading dock and area surrounding building; keep floors clear of debris and assist in daily shift closures.
• Train and support new associates.
• Verify all incoming and outgoing products for accuracy in quantity, size, and type; inform management of inventory and supply shortages and assist with periodic inventory counts.

Competencies

• Collaboration: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Customer-Focused: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Equipment Utilization: The ability and skill to ensure the optimum utilization of warehouse or production plant, equipment and materials
• Health and Safety: The ability and skill to manage and apply safe systems of work
• Inventory Management: The ability and skill to design, implement and manage inventory control systems
• Logistics: The ability and skill to ensure the optimum movement and storage of warehouse & production plant, equipment and materials
• Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Plans & Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Policy & Procedures: The ability and skill to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives
• Production Quality: The ability and skill to ensure that all production operations are carried out to ensure the required quality of outcomes
• Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• Storage: The ability and skill to ensure the optimum storage of warehouse, plant, equipment, materials and supplies
• Verbal Communication: Ability to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications

Qualifications

• High School or GED degree
• 0-1 year of related experience preferred

Skills

• Policy & Procedures
• Storage
• Verbal Communication

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift products weighing up to approximately 50 pounds.
• Handling of tires (e.g., rolling, destacking, team lifting) greater than approximately 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: 5% of the time