The Warehouse Associe is responsible for daily customer order fulfillment activities within an assigned facility. They are cross-trained in multiple warehouse disciplines and are responsible for supporting warehouse operions and administrive functions, including receiving, order filling, picking, packing, shipping, returns, replenishment, inventory, and value-added service. They play a key role in ensuring inventory is handled safely, accurely, and efficiently while supporting the flow of operional documention and informion from warehouse offices. They work closely with site leaders, carriers, drivers, and internal support teams to maintain safety, productivity, accuracy, and service quality.
Compension: $18.00-$20.00 per hour
Responsibilities
- Load, unload, move, stage, sort, and position inventory from loading docks, delivery trucks, and storage areas using approved lifting techniques and approprie merial handling equipment (MHE) such as pallet jacks, carts, and dollies.
- Pick, pack, label, and prepare freight for shipping and delivery in accordance with opering procedures.
- Label, scan, track, and document freight using handheld scanners and company systems to ensure accuracy and documention integrity.
- Verify incoming shipments against packing lists and ensure compliance with consoliding, receiving, and staging procedures.
- Store cargo in assigned locions using cargo boards, pallets, and designed storage methods.
- Fulfill daily picking and order requirements in accordance with KPIs and client SLAs, following established picking procedures.
- Report inventory discrepancies, shortages, or picking issues promptly to the Warehouse Supervisor.
- Perform Value Added Services (VAS) according to client and department store guidelines, including ticketing, labeling, hanging, folding, and inspecting inventory.
- Follow inventory control procedures to manage shortages, discrepancies, and adjustments, coordining with the Inventory Supervisor as needed.
- Complete quality checks and cycle count requests, documenting findings and reporting results as required.
- Ensure outbound shipments meet quality assurance standards based on designed carrier, order type, and client requirements.
- Pack and process orders according to client‑specific and order‑type procedures to ensure accuracy and shipment integrity.
- Apply correct packing and shipping labels, ensuring proper placement and compliance with shipping requirements.
- Stage completed orders in assigned outbound locions based on order type and carrier.
- Execute replenishment activities by transferring pallets and cartons to designed pick or pallet locions to support open orders.
- Inspect and process returns by identifying damaged inventory versus stock eligible for return to inventory and restocking accordingly.
- Communice space constraints, operional roadblocks, or safety concerns to the Site leadership.
- Support daily/routine maintenance of the warehouse/site, including but not limited to sweeping, collecting empty boxes, debris, and shrink wrap from the floor, ghering and disposing of trash, and opering a cardboard baler.
- Safely opere and assist with merial handling equipment and dock tools, following all safety, OSHA, and PPE requirements.
- Work assigned schedules, including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as required by business needs.
- All other duties as assigned to meet evolving business needs.
Qualificions
- Educion: High School Diploma or General Educion Development (GED) equivalent required.
- Certificion/Licensure: Valid forklift certificion/licensure (or ability to obtain prior to opering equipment) preferred.
- Willingness and ability to learn and use warehouse, logistics, and shipment‑tracking systems, handheld scanners, and office tools in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment.
- Communicion: Ability to communice effectively in English, verbally and in writing, to understand safety and operional instructions, work assignments, and freight documention.
- Ability to recognize numbers, labels, barcodes, and freight markings accurely, and to perform basic arithmetic to verify freight counts, quantities, and weights.
- Basic arithmetic skills to verify freight counts, quantities, and weights.
- Technology: Willingness and ability to learn and use basic computer systems, handheld scanners, and freight-tracking devices.
- Equipment: Ability to safely opere box cutters, cardboard balers, and merial handling equipment (MHE) such as pallet jacks, dollies, hand trucks, order pickers, pallet riders, conveyors, dock ples, dock levelers, sit-down/stand-up forklifts and reach trucks (with company-assisted certificion/training), and/or other specialized MHE as required by the site.
- Ability to maintain regular and predictable tendance.
- Physical Demands: Extensive standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, and twisting for 8-12 hours per/shift, with the ability to lift, push, pull, and carry freight up to 50lbs without assistance, with occasional lifting of freight up to 75lbs with assistance or mechanical aids throughout each 8-12 hour shift, multiple times per/week.
- Vision, hearing, and verbal communicion skills sufficient to work safely in a noisy dock environment.
- Demonstred discretion and confidentiality in handling and protecting sensitive informion.
- Environment: Comfort commuting to/from and working in a 100% on‑site setting (listed in this posting). Ability to work safely around moving equipment, vehicles, and freight in a non-clime-controlled environment, including frequent exposure to temperure extremes (both hot and cold), occasional outdoor work and/or exposure to precipition (rain, sleet, snow, etc.), regular exposure to moving equipment, vehicle traffic, exhaust, dust, and modere to loud noise.
