Warehouse Associate

About the Company

Vanguard Truck Centers owns and operates full-service commercial truck centers in the United States. Our strength is in our people and teamwork, providing a diverse range of products and services across many industries and the country. We are a successful, growing, and profitable company with a mission to lead the industry in consistently meeting or exceeding our customer's expectations in the pursuit of profitable growth.

Our values include protecting our integrity first, promoting ingenuity and challenging everything, developing people, and pursuing 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 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 parts have been replaced.
  • Maintains a professional appearance and keeps the parts area clean and uncluttered.
• Warranty Returns:
  • Maintains a 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 drivers when needed.
  • Verifies that invoices match purchase orders 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 the 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.
  • Coordinates 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 the 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 a 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: Must be able to multi-task, 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, and repetitive motions.
  • Medium work, ascending or descending ladders, stairs, etc., balancing, and stooping.
  • Close visual acuity for preparing and analyzing data, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, visual inspection involving small defects or parts, using measurement devices, and/or assembly or fabrication of parts.
• Work Environment:
  • Exposure to dust, exhaust fumes, and a variety of hazardous and nonhazardous materials.
  • Primary work location is in the parts warehouse, with time spent in both cold and hot environments.
  • Subject to outside environmental conditions with no effective protection from weather.
  • Subject to inside environmental conditions with protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature changes.
  • Subject to noise levels that require shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
  • Subject to hazards such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or chemicals.
  • Subject to atmospheric conditions affecting the respiratory system or skin, such as fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
  • Safety shoes are required on day one of employment.
  • 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