Warehouse Tech 1

Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative

Job Description

Job Title: Warehouse Tech

Department: Seed Division; Grain Division

Reports To: Warehouse Foreman

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Prepared By: Tedi Roach

Prepared Date: January 31, 2017

Approved By:

Approved Date:

Summary Receives, stores, and distributes material, tools, equipment, and products within establishments by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Receives and samples incoming seed, inspecting for inconsistencies.

Maintains clean work area.

Inspects and reports storage and facility problems and concerns.

Reads schedules, customer orders, shipping orders, or requisitions to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed.

Conveys materials and items from receiving areas to storage or to other designated areas.

Sorts and places materials or items on pallets, or in bags, boxes, or bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or code.

Fills requisitions or requests for seed and distributes items to workers or customers.

Marks materials with identifying information.

Records amounts of materials or items received or distributed.

Weighs or counts items for distribution.

Compiles worksheets or tickets related to incoming or outgoing specifications.

Operates forklift or other motorized vehicle to load or unload seed.

Maintains inventory records relevant to receiving and/or loading seed.

Lifts or moves containers such as buckets, bags, etc. between 25 – 50 pounds frequently, and up to 100 pounds on occasion.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills

Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Inventory software and Order processing systems.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Valid driver's license not required but preferred; forklift certification not required but beneficial.

Other Skills and Abilities

Ability to work extended hours including weekends during seasonal needs.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.