Donation Attendant

Salvation Army Careers • Fresno, CA

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About The Position

The Donation Attendant supports The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center by helping provide a positive donor experience and contributing to the program’s operations. The role involves maintaining the donation area, receiving and sorting donated items, completing required paperwork, and assisting with loading donations. The attendant must communicate effectively, follow instructions, and perform physical tasks including moving products weighing up to 75 pounds. Work schedules are set by management to ensure store coverage; full-time associates may work shifts that include evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Must pass a background check, including Criminal History and Sex Offender Registry checks.
• Ability to read and write and to understand and follow written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management, fellow store employees, customers, and donors.
• Ability to sit, walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist intermittently or continuously.
• Ability to grasp, push, and pull objects, including carts, racks, fixtures, furniture dollies, platform trucks, and hand trucks.
• Ability to move product weighing up to 75 pounds.
• Ability to perform repetitive-motion tasks.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must be flexible to support adequate store coverage; full-time shifts may include evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Clean and maintain the area in and around the donation trailer or pod at the beginning and end of each shift.
• Receive donated items from donors and provide receipts.
• Maintain reports and paperwork as instructed by the supervisor.
• Separate and sort donated materials into the proper containers and stack materials as instructed by the supervisor.
• Assist TSA PA/Drivers with loading donations onto trucks as needed.
• Inform the supervisor when supplies are running low, such as brooms, receipts, totes, and carts.
• Secure and lock the donation trailer or pod at the end of each shift.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Employee discounts
• Employee referral bonuses
• Monthly management incentive bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement plan
• AFLAC
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity for career growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED