Senior Warehouse Associate (1st shift)

Pay: $25.00 - $30.00 (based off relevant experience)

Schedule:

1st Shift; 8:30AM-5:00PM; Monday - Friday (possible overtime on Saturdays)

Position is responsible for a variety of warehouse duties including packing, pulling/checking customer orders, replenishment, shipping and receiving materials, and material handling and completing all required paperwork in accordance to company policies and procedures.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Unloads goods and material received, enters appropriate information into system, labels and locates material.
• Checks the delivery list and plans and schedules the day’s shipments.
• Separates customer orders and places into bins. Pulls and stages orders. Repacks material if required to meet customer specifications. As required, makes boxes, packs, labels and locates materials.
• Ensures all products are properly labeled, and packaged. Coordinates the shipment and shipping paperwork of materials per CSR instructions. (Mode of shipment could include UPS, OTR carriers, dedicated carriers, international or bulk carriers.)
• Loads all trucks for shipments, ensuring the product gets on to the correct truck. Ensures driver signs all required paperwork.
• Calculates total weight for each shipment by adding individual weights of containers included in shipment.
• Performs functions in SAP to receive and ship material.
• Enters claims and customer returns into the system.
• Participates in cycle counting. Enters and verifies information. Researches and makes adjustments as necessary.
• Reviews preventative maintenance check sheets for forklifts and breakbulk machines. Ensures good working order of machines.
• Follows and complies with all safety and work rules and regulations. Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• Maybe required to handle the accumulation, disposal and transportation of hazardous waste. If required to do so, must participate in prerequisite training in order to meet RCRA waste management requirements.
• Drives fork lifts, locomotives, track-mobiles or other heavy duty material movers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical/Environ. Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and use foot/feet to operate machine. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 55 pounds and frequently move more than 250 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job may include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc. Work is inside and the typical noise level is loud. The employee is frequently
exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; outside weather conditions; and explosives. Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is frequently exposed to vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.

Required Experience:

• 5-10 Years of experience operating in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• 1-5 Years of experience at a Senior-level in either warehouse or manufacturing operations.
• Proficiency with using SAP systems for shipping and receiving.
• Experience monitoring and verifying cycle counts.
• Stand-up Forklift Certified
• Experience managing and properly documenting bill of ladings.
• High attention to detail. Capable of investigating and resolving variances and inventory discrepancies.

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