Freight Flow Associate-8

Walmart • Nashville, TN

7d • $21 - $29 • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for various tasks related to the flow of freight within the facility, including operating a forklift, stocking merchandise, providing customer service, maintaining safety standards, and ensuring accurate order fulfillment. The role emphasizes teamwork, integrity, and a commitment to serving customers and members.

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 safely to pick up, move, place, and position merchandise pallets.
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with others, identifying priorities, and adapting to change.
• Receives, stocks, and organizes merchandise and supplies, managing inventory flow, utilizing equipment appropriately, merchandising, working inventory exceptions, correcting shelf capacities, and completing required paperwork.
• Provides member service by acknowledging needs, identifying needs, providing guidance on self-service technology, assisting with purchasing decisions, locating merchandise, resolving issues, and promoting products and services.
• Maintains the safety of the facility by conducting safety sweeps, following forklift spotting procedures, handling hazardous materials, following steel standard guidelines, and reporting unsafe situations.
• Maintains the sales floor and merchandising presentation by zoning the area, stocking and rotating merchandise, removing damaged goods, setting up displays, maintaining modular integrity, receiving, sorting, staging, and delivering merchandise, ensuring prominent display of promotional items, processing defective merchandise, and monitoring for shrink, security risks, and safety.
• Ensures club pick-up orders are filled by assisting with picking and staging orders according to policy, ensuring associates pick orders within an acceptable timeframe, and performing occasional audits for accuracy.
• Handles, moves, and displays goods safely and correctly.
• Tracks goods, maintains instock levels, and controls shrinkage.
• Reports poor inventory practices and low instock levels.
• Uses inventory tools and equipment safely and correctly.
• Operates and maintains forklifts safely and correctly.
• Reports poor or unsafe conditions or practices.
• Notifies management when forklifts are not in proper working order.
• Proactively identifies customers who need help and assists them with technology services and items.
• Models and helps others with technology services.
• Identifies and addresses shrink opportunities and problems with products, services, and work areas.
• Properly maintains equipment and ensures products are organized and stocked correctly.
• Works as a team, builds strong relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity.
• Helps, develops, and mentors others, recognizing contributions and accomplishments.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
• Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Delivers results while putting the customer first.
• Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances priorities, and considers the impact of their work on the team's ability to deliver on the company's purpose.
• Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, and demonstrates courage and resilience.
• Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

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
• PPTO
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption expense reimbursement
• Surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Company paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates, covering programs from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

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