BALER WAREHOUSE TRAINEE
About The Position
The Baler/Warehouse Helper Associate is a member of the Warehouse Team, responsible for baling clothing or plush, stacking and unstacking gaylords, and helping load trucks with bales of clothing. The role may also include cross-training in waste management, material handling, barcoding, or processing. The position requires following Goodwill policies and safety procedures, maintaining professional etiquette, working unsupervised, and keeping the work area neat, clean, and orderly. Regular attendance and adherence to attendance policies are required. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily; reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
- Ability to meet customer needs, understand customer concerns, and resolve issues in a friendly and efficient manner.
- Dependability and trustworthiness.
- Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
- Truthfulness and credibility in the workplace.
- Ability to accept responsibility and account for one's actions.
- Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
- Ability to bring energy to the performance of tasks.
- Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Ability to communicate and understand verbal and written instructions in English.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule on short notice, including nights and weekends, and occasionally long hours.
- Vision corrected to within normal limits.
- Ability to hear the donation bell.
- Sense of touch.
- Ability to function in a hectic work environment with occasional periods of high stress.
- Ability to meet the listed physical demands, including frequent or constant standing, walking, handling/fingering, reaching, lifting, pushing/pulling, squatting or kneeling, and bending; occasional climbing and crawling.
Responsibilities
- Follow all Goodwill policies and safety procedures.
- Operate the top-loading clothing baler.
- Operate a forklift after training and certification.
- Fill the baler and tie off bales using the provided wire.
- Use a forklift and hand jack when needed.
- Empty gaylords of donated goods into the baler.
- Stack and unstack gaylords.
- Help load trucks with bales of clothing.
- Keep the work area and surrounding area neat, clean, and orderly.
- Complete daily and weekly salvage paperwork and logs as instructed by the supervisor.
- Receive cross-training in waste management, material handling, barcoding, or processing.
- Maintain regular attendance and follow attendance policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Full-time employees, after the new-hire waiting period, are eligible for medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, short-term disability, long-term disability, PTO/holidays, discounts, credit union, voluntary benefits, and Mylo.
- Part-time employees scheduled for 30 to 37.5 hours per week, after the new-hire waiting period, are eligible for medical, prescription, PTO, discounts, credit union, voluntary benefits, and Mylo.
- Part-time employees scheduled for fewer than 30 hours per week, after the new-hire waiting period, are eligible for PTO, discounts, credit union, voluntary benefits, and Mylo.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
