Warehouse Associate

At Vanguard Truck Centers we invest in our people and recognize that our employees are our greatest assets. We are seeking talent that is driven with a great attitude, has a desire for success, is team-oriented, and demonstrates leadership.

About the Company

Our strength is in our people and teamwork. Vanguard Truck Centers owns and operates full-service commercial truck centers in the United States. Our unique footprint allows us to provide a diverse range of products and services across many industries and across the country. Vanguard Truck Centers is a successful, growing, and profitable company.

Mission: To lead the industry in consistently meeting or exceeding our customer's expectations in the pursuit of profitable growth.

• To protect our integrity first
• To promote ingenuity and challenge everything
• To develop people
• To pursue excellence

Responsibilities

General Warehouse

• Assists with annual physical inventory and maintains a perpetual inventory bin-maintenance system.
• Stocks and posts incoming orders.
• Assists in preparing for and performing annual parts inventory.
• Assists in monthly parts returns.
• Helps maintain the professional appearance of the parts department.
• Helps with stocking and posting orders when they arrive to expedite delivery to shop technicians and wholesale accounts.
• Ensures that areas of the parts department are properly stocked.
• Ensures the cleanliness of the parts department by disposing of used boxes and trash, sweeping floors, and dusting parts bins daily.
• Assists in crating and accounting for all core shipments back to the manufacturer when part has been replaced.
• Maintains professional appearance and keeps parts area clean and uncluttered.

Warranty Returns

• Maintains system for receiving and storing warranty parts for future shipping or scrap.
• Responsible for shipping warranty parts on a weekly basis.

Deliveries

• Assists in coordinating pick-up and deliveries for parts and equipment to customers, satellite stores, wholesale accounts, and vendors.
• Makes deliveries in lieu of the drivers when needed.
• Verifies that invoice matches purchase order for each delivery.
• Keeps and files accurate logs of daily deliveries and pick-ups.
• Ensures recipient's signature is on each delivery entry.
• Delivers parts to shop when needed and distributes to appropriate technicians.
• Delivers parts to customers, satellite stores, or vendors when parts delivery drivers are not available.
• Ensures trucks are unloaded each night and all paperwork is turned in for undelivered parts.
• Responsible for coordination with pick-up and deliveries to designated accounts when instructed by the parts or service departments.
• Checks with the parts manager, wholesale representative, inventory control administrator, parts counter people, or shipping and receiving clerk before leaving to coordinate any last-minute pick-ups or deliveries.
• Advises parts manager if delivery trucks need major repairs and maintenance.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 2 years of experience in parts and/or service environment.

Language Skills

• Must be fluent in English including the ability to effectively communicate using written and verbal skills.
• The ability to communicate in Spanish is helpful but not required.

Mathematical Skills

• General math skills to include reconciling stock orders, quantity adjustments, etc.

Reasoning Ability

• This position often requires the ability to multi-task.
• Must be able to quickly assess situations and make accurate decisions based on the information at hand.

Physical Demands

• Climbing, balancing, stopping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, repetitive motions.
• Medium work, ascending or descending ladders, stairs, etc., balancing, and stooping.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

Work Environment

• Exposure to dust, exhaust fumes, and a variety of hazardous and nonhazardous materials.
• Primary work location is in the parts warehouse; however, a large portion of time will be spent in both cold and hot environments.
• Subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• Subject to noise: Sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• Subject to hazards: Includes proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat, or exposure to chemicals.
• Subject to atmospheric conditions: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation that affect the respiratory system or the skin.
• Safety shoes are required on day one of employment. Employees must wear approved safety footwear at all times while working in designated shop and service areas.

Background screening is a mandatory prerequisite for employment consideration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 401k with employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short-term disability and basic life insurance
• Optional life and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Time Off (PTO) program
• Career advancement opportunities