Warehouse Associate I

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Select products accurately and properly verify
• Perform required equipment inspection and report any deficiencies to supervisor
• Follow proper safety procedures
• Receive load assignment from dock supervisor
• Follow all work instructions and procedures
• Remove product from trailer and break down loads to customer specifications per purchase order
• Break down loads efficiently, accurately, in a timely manner, with little to no error on loads: loads must be wrapped and lined up by P.O. line number when required
• Record loss, damages, shortages and overages
• Report any equipment damages and/or integrity of pallets
• Train new team members on unloading process
• Maintain a clean working area
• Make recommendations for more effective operations

Competencies

• Identify products by size, type, color or product code
• Speak, read, write and understand the English language
• Basic math skills
• Reasoning skills with the ability to understand and execute instructions
• Able to work safely in a warehouse environment
• Able to work in a team environment
• Maintain certification, if using powered industrial equipment
• Proficiency in inventory software, databases and systems or the ability to learn

Physical Requirements

• Regularly use hands to fingers, handle or feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk and hear
• Frequently stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Occasionally sit, climb and balance
• Constantly lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 80 pounds
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Education & Experience

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent
• Years of experience, REQUIRED
• Previous working experience as a warehouse worker, preferred
• Familiarity with modern warehousing practices and methods or the ability to learn processes and procedures
• Maintain certification, if using powered industrial equipment

Work Environment

• Works in a warehouse setting with various temperatures
• Variety of temperatures including freezer, refrigerator, climate control to no climate control warehouses as well as some outdoor exposure
• Exposed to moving mechanical parts, vibrations, two-way forklift flow and loud noise