Warehouse Associate

About the role

The Warehouse Associate supports daily operations in a moving, storage, and furniture/design warehouse. This role is responsible for safely handling, storing, and preparing furniture, artwork, décor, and household goods for delivery, installation, or long-term storage. Attention to detail, care in handling high-value items, and teamwork are essential.

Responsibilities

• Receive, inspect, and document incoming furniture, décor, artwork, and household goods
• Accurately inventory items and assign correct storage locations
• Wrap, pad, crate, and prepare items for storage, delivery, or installation
• Pull items for scheduled deliveries, moves, or designer installations
• Load and unload trucks while ensuring proper protection of items
• Assist movers and installation teams with staging and job preparation
• Identify and report damages, discrepancies, or special handling needs
• Maintain accurate inventory records, tags, labels, and paperwork
• Keep the warehouse clean, organized, and compliant with safety standards
• Follow handling instructions for fragile, oversized, or high-value items
• Assist with furniture assembly, minor repairs and touch-ups as needed
• Support special projects such as furniture returns, client viewings, or vendor pickups
• Assist with special projects, deliveries, or installations as needed

Requirements

• High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) required
• Previous warehouse, inventory, or logistics experience preferred
• Furniture or interior design industry experience a plus

Competencies

• Communication - Displays a very quick grasp of the significance of information communicated and nearly always initiates or responds to communications in an appropriate, timely, and comprehensive manner. Displays skill in reducing complex information to simple forms and helping others to understand that information.
• Organization - Effectively juggles multiple projects. Anticipates potential problems and develops excellent contingency plans. Keeps information and files clearly organized. Successfully pulls many unconnected things together. Defines the resources necessary and gets them from where available.
• Teamwork - Demonstrates specific skills by usually anticipating information people need to know to do their jobs, resolving conflicts, fostering integrity and trust, and listening to bring a joint action by a number of people to achieve a desired result.
• Time Management - Master of multi-tasking. Manages time so well that can attend to many different activities in a day, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. Carefully plans activities so is always working efficiently and never wastes time doing unnecessary tasks. Rarely takes up less important work until priority tasks are completed. Consistently uses time efficiently and effectively.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms
• Frequently required to climb or balance, talk or hear
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Specific vision abilities required for the duties of this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Frequent lifting and/or moving up to 100 pounds on a regular basis
• Must be able to exchange accurate information with other individuals
• Must be able to detect mechanical issues and part defects from short distances to determine what action needs to be taken
• The individual must be capable of transporting various parts and tools required to do the job

Work Environment

• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions
• Moving mechanical parts
• Fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate