Warehouse Associate-Portland, OR

About the role

Utz Quality Foods is currently seeking a Warehouse Associate to join our sales operations team at the Portland, OR Distribution Center. The Warehouse associate oversees and organizes warehouse operations, ensuring product rotation, condition, inventory, security, and placement are efficiently maintained.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that warehouse is opened and closed at scheduled times.
• Checks product that Independent Operators and Distributors pick and load, signing load tickets to verify correct inventory.
• Assists with training new warehouse team members.
• Orders inventory.
• Receives, stores, loads, and ensures all products and materials are accounted for and kept in excellent condition.
• Unloads trailers that arrive at the center and checks trailer loads for accuracy.
• Picks and builds pallets for outbound shipments, ensuring proper stacking and stability.
• Maintains an accurate daily inventory balances.
• Uses a hand-held computer to balance the daily inventory (warehouse inventory, daily orders, extra orders, return to stock, trailer loads).
• Accepts and checks return to stock product and stale and damaged products.
• Places returned cardboard and stale and damaged product on trailers.
• Maintains cleanliness of warehouse, including the restroom(s).
• Keeps warehouse organized including product rotation.
• Uses point of purchase material as needed.
• Assists with month-end inventory counts.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent or 2+ years of relevant experience working in a warehouse preferred.
• Prior experience using an Enterprise Resource System such as D365 is highly preferred.
• Requires organization and attention to details to maintain accurate inventory, records, and rotation of product at the distribution center.
• Must be able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Requires basic math skills.
• Requires independent decision making on inventory needs, especially during promotional activity.
• Ability to drive a forklift and/or use a hand jack may be required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Outlook/Excel.
• Requires use of hands for simple grasping.
• Requires the ability to walk, sit, talk, bend, stand, twist, push, and pull frequently and for long periods.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push, pull, load, and transport light to medium weight products.

Benefits

Our full-time benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more.