Warehouse I

About the role

Join our team at American Tire Distributors, the nation's premier tire distributor. Our coast-to-coast distribution network serves approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high-quality tires, custom wheels, and shop supplies.

Pay Rate: $17.00/hour

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and pick product to fill orders and stage product for loading.
• Physically move and lift product weighing as much as 150 pounds.
• Organize warehouse stock and assist in daily closing procedures.
• Compile and submit regular reports of damaged, outdated stock, over- and under-shipments, and returns to vendors.
• Assist in periodic inventory counts.
• Operate powered industrial vehicles (forklifts, pallet jacks, order pickers, etc.) safely and maintain operator licenses if required.
• Operate equipment to assist in loading and unloading.
• Perform data entry of product numbers, use hand-held devices, and ensure product placement for inventory accuracy.
• Assist in administrative tasks such as paperwork handling and warehouse closing procedures.
• Segregate defective items from regular inventory flow.
• Load and unload delivery trucks, handling products up to approximately 50 pounds; manage heavier items through rolling, destacking, or team lifting.
• Organize warehouse stock by product line and physical alignment, ensuring adequate space for overflow.
• Perform routine facility maintenance and housekeeping tasks, including cleaning parking lots, loading docks, and surrounding areas; maintain clear floors and tidy bathrooms.
• Verify accuracy of incoming and outgoing products regarding quantity, size, and type; report inventory shortages to management.

Competencies

• Collaboration: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of unique needs.
• Customer-Focused: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Equipment Utilization: Ability and skill to ensure optimum utilization of warehouse equipment and materials.
• Health and Safety: Ability and skill to manage and apply safe systems of work.
• Inventory Management: Ability and skill to design, implement, and manage inventory control systems.
• Logistics: Ability and skill to ensure optimum movement and storage of warehouse materials.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing effective and efficient processes to get things done with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Plans & Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Policy & Procedures: Ability and skill to monitor, interpret, and ensure alignment of policies and procedures with organizational strategies.
• Production Quality: Ability and skill to ensure production operations meet required quality outcomes.
• Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Storage: Ability and skill to ensure optimum storage of warehouse, plant, equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Verbal Communication: Ability to express ideas, request actions, and formulate plans through clear and effective verbal communications.

Requirements

• High School or GED degree.
• 0-1 year of related experience preferred.

Physical Demands

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift products weighing up to approximately 50 pounds; handle tires and heavier items (greater than 50 pounds) through rolling, destacking, or team lifting.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

• Exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: 5% of the time.