Warehouse Worker

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The role of the Warehouse Worker is to perform general warehouse functions such as picking, packing, loading, unloading, sorting, binning and return processing. This position provides support to stock and inventory initiatives including physical inventory counts, part relocations, and parts returns and scraping.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with all Environmental, Health & Safety and Security requirements including but limited to compliance with Health & Safety policies and procedures, 5S standards and reporting of incidents, accidents, near misses and hazardous conditions.
• Pick small and large parts from storage locations to fill customer orders. Verify part number, description, and quantity to ensure proper shipment.
• Pack parts according to company and client quality standards to ensure safety during shipment in order to eliminate freight damage
• Receive incoming parts for stock keeping purposes. Verify part number, description, and quantity to ensure proper receipt
• Stack material in assigned storage location and complete appropriate documentation
• Participate in warehouse projects including: stock re-arrangement, cycle counts, warehouse scraps, part re-packaging, and warehouse auditing
• Maintain cleanliness of individual work area and participate in general warehouse housekeeping
• Operate warehouse material handling equipment including: pallet jack, recycling equipment, packaging machines
• Pass and maintain hazardous materials certification and training as required
• Maintain minimum productivity and quality to Key Performance Indicator (KPI) requirements on a daily basis
• Other duties as may be assigned

Other

• Maintain a smart and business like appearance at all times
• Maintain confidentiality
• Self-motivated and able to make decisions independently
• Identify areas for personal development to improve performance in role and actively seek ways to improve

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• GED or High school Diploma or equivalent warehouse experience
• 2 years of 3PL and/or warehouse and distribution experience
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, Standard Operating Procedures and maintenance instructions
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Basic understanding of SAP or comparable WMS
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, weight, volume, distance measurement)
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within the parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
• Ability to work overtime and weekends as required to meet the needs of the business

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
• Ability to regularly lift/move up to 50 lbs., parts may be heavy and awkwardly shaped
• Ability to lift, climb, bend, twist, stoop for long periods of time
• Ability to walk the entire floor for the length of shift and stand for long periods of time
• Ability to use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms
• Specific vision abilities are required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme heat or cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.