WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATE

About Us

USCS is dedicated to advancing, innovating, and serving companies seeking "Best in Service" facilities and logistics in the cold chain. We are an employee-focused, equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the overall effectiveness of facility operations through proper product handling, organization, and adherence to safety and sanitation standards.
• Unload and load trailers, verifying proper product stacking and ensuring product is not mixed on pallets.
• Ensure all customer product is accounted for, free of infestation, with production codes verified, and within its acceptable temperature range prior to storage.
• Identify and recover any received or shipped damaged product consistent with company policy.
• Report all shortages and overages to your supervisor.
• Assist in physical inventories to ensure the safekeeping of the customer’s product.
• Pull and prepare product for shipment, ensuring the exact number and type of product is located and shipped, from the proper location, with correct lot numbers.
• Stack product to build pallets and tape or stretch-wrap them as required to ensure product stability.
• Perform picking duties efficiently to meet customer service and/or company standards (pallets may reach up to seven feet in height).
• Efficiently move product from staging or storage areas into railcars or trailers.
• Safely operate equipment including forklifts, clamp trucks, slip-sheets, and turret trucks to load, unload, move, stack, and stage product.
• Maintain equipment and materials in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion.
• Inspect equipment daily to ensure safe operation.
• Maintain a professional demeanor in appearance and communications.
• Participate in staff and/or customer meetings as required.
• Take initiative to prevent non-conformities related to product, process, and quality systems.
• Identify and report issues related to product, processes, and/or quality, and propose solutions through appropriate channels.
• Follow posted security procedures at all times while in the building.
• Participate in safety and educational training programs.

Requirements

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Bend and lift up to 50 lbs. regularly; lift up to 70 lbs. occasionally, with assistance.
• Work in temperature ranges from +50°F to -30°F with moderate noise levels.
• Lift overhead when required.
• Stand and walk for extended periods; use hands to handle objects, tools, or controls.
• Attention to detail, effective communication, vision, and hearing are essential for safety and productivity.
• Operate scanners, tablets, radios, phones, computers, and other essential warehouse equipment.
• Possess strong arithmetic and reading skills; follow verbal and written instructions and company policies.
• Be a self-starter, able to work independently and coordinate with others.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing stress and meeting productivity guidelines.
• Additional work hours may be requested by management.
• Operate a registered motor vehicle if part of daily tasks.
• Engage in frequent personal interaction and communication.

Schedule

Sat - Wed, 5:00 AM - 1:30 PM (plus overtime when needed).

Pay

$23 - $25 per hour.

Benefits

• 401K and Educational Assistance after 1 year (for full-time employees not under contract).
• Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance available after 30 days of service, if elected.
• Company Life Insurance.
• A variety of additional benefits and perks.