Warehouse Team Member

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team sources, produces, and delivers our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing across 100 sites in over 30 countries.

About The Role

Perform all job functions safely. Must be qualified to possess a forklift operator's license.

• Regularly exposed to work in busy, high-traffic areas; must be aware of all surroundings.
• Must regularly lift, push, or pull up to 50 lbs.
• Work in and around machinery, moving vehicles, and pedestrians.
• Must wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety-toed shoes, cut-resistant gloves, bump cap or hard hat, hair net, and beard net (if applicable).

Responsibilities

• Mopping and sweeping floors.
• Using stretch wrap to cover pallets that the automatic system failed to cover.
• Picking up cases of product that have fallen off pallets weighing 10 lbs to 40 lbs.
• Restacking pallets that drivers knocked over (up to 70 cases weighing 40 lbs each).
• Setting manual dock plates by pulling on a chain to release spring (requiring at least 50 pounds of effort).
• Overhead pulling to get on and off the lift for paperwork and communication with truck drivers (15–20 times per hour).
• Operating manual dock doors using a chain (requiring at least 62 pounds of effort to raise).
• Handling manual roll-up/down trailer doors requiring overhead pulling.
• Lifting, moving, and adjusting pallets prior to forklift pickup.
• Moving and dumping garbage and recycle bins.
• Occasionally moving inbound receipt boxes and related materials.

Physical Aspects

• Lifting: Minimum 20 lbs constantly, up to 100 lbs occasionally (with assistance).
• Repetitive Motion: Frequent manipulation of forklift controls; constant entering and exiting forklift.
• Dexterity: Frequent manipulation of forklift controls; frequent completion of paperwork.
• Climbing: Minimal.
• Standing/Sitting: Constant sitting; frequent standing; occasional bending.
• Walking: Frequent.
• Pushing: Frequent (to close overhead dock/trailer doors and operate cleaning equipment).
• Pulling: Constant overhead pulling to get on/off forklift; frequent pulling to close trailer/dock doors and raise dock plates.
• Vibration: Constant from forklift operation.

Work Environment

• Indoor and outdoor work; subject to extreme cold (including icy conditions), extreme heat, and humidity.
• Occasional exposure to inclement weather.
• Noisy environment.
• Wet, slippery conditions.

Benefits

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package. Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere—and creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued is central to this. We embrace diversity in all forms, welcoming people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and mindsets.