Freight Flow Associate

Walmart • Tulsa, OK

5d • $19 - $27 • Onsite

About The Position

The Freight Flow Associate is responsible for various tasks related to the movement, stocking, and organization of merchandise within the facility. This role involves operating equipment like forklifts and pallet jacks, ensuring inventory accuracy, providing customer service, and maintaining a safe and organized sales floor. The associate will also be involved in fulfilling online orders and upholding company policies and values.

Requirements

• 90 days of prior experience with Forklift Certification.
• Ability to safely utilize pallet jacks.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Nice To Haves

• Customer Service Experience
• Retail Experience
• Supervising a team

Responsibilities

• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Operates forklift following Company standards and guidelines by safely picking up, moving, placing, and positioning merchandise pallets.
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations, carrying out tasks, communicating progress and information, determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities, and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Receives, stocks, and organizes merchandise and supplies from distribution centers and suppliers throughout the facility by managing inventory flow, following company policy and procedures for utilizing equipment appropriately, merchandising, working inventory exceptions, correcting shelf capacities, and completing and retaining required paperwork, logs, and other documentation.
• Provides member service by acknowledging the member and identifying member needs, providing guidance and support to members regarding self-service technology, assisting members with purchasing decisions, locating merchandise, resolving member issues and concerns, and promoting the company’s products and services.
• Maintains safety of facility according to company policies and procedures by conducting safety sweeps, following forklift spotting procedures, following procedures for handling and disposing of hazardous materials, following company steel standard guidelines, and correcting and reporting unsafe situations to management.
• Maintains the sales floor and merchandising presentation in accordance with company policies and procedures by properly zoning the area, stocking and rotating merchandise, removing damaged or out-of-date goods, setting up, cleaning, and organizing product displays, maintaining modular integrity, receiving, sorting, staging, and delivering merchandise, ensuring prominent display of promotional and seasonal merchandise, processing defective merchandise, following company and regulatory policies and procedures for sanitation and food safety, and monitoring the area for shrink, security risks, and safety.
• Ensures club pick up orders are filled by assisting with picking club pick up orders throughout the day and staging, ensuring products are selected and staged according to company policy and procedures, ensuring Merchandising Associates pick orders within acceptable timeframe and are staged properly, and performing occasional audits for accuracy.
• Handles, moves, and displays goods in safe and correct ways.
• Tracks goods, maintains in-stock levels, and controls shrinkage in a timely manner.
• Reports poor inventory practices and low in-stock levels in assigned area.
• Uses inventory tools and equipment in safe and correct ways.
• Operates and maintains forklifts in safe and correct ways.
• Reports poor or unsafe conditions or practices in assigned areas.
• Tells Management when forklifts are not in proper working order.
• Proactively identifies Customers who need help, actively engages them, and assists them with Technology services and items.
• Models and helps others with technology services.
• Identifies shrink opportunities and problems with products, services, and work areas and takes steps to fix the problem.
• Properly maintains equipment and ensures products are organized and stocked in correct ways and promptly fixes any problems.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Company paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed