Load Checker Yard/Warehouse
About The Position
This position involves checking all outgoing loads to verify accuracy against customer invoices, sales receipts, or other itemized documents. The role may be performed at a yard check-out gate or within a routine yard or warehouse setting. Key duties include verifying the contents of customers’ vehicles or delivery trucks as they leave the yard, ensuring all merchandise is accounted for, and confirming that the yard loader has correctly loaded and initialed the material on the invoice. The Load Checker is responsible for resolving any discrepancies that arise. Additionally, the role may involve handling customer material returns, completing credit request forms, noting material conditions, arranging for credit processing, and restoring returned materials to storage. The individual will read production schedules, customer orders, work orders, and shipping orders to determine items for movement, gathering, or distribution. They will track inaccuracies to report to operations managers, utilize a DDM tracker, and may conduct inventory searches. The position requires efficient work planning and pacing to meet daily, weekly, project, or team productivity goals, as well as strict adherence to all safety procedures and practices, including attending safety meetings and suggesting improvements.
Requirements
- Knowledge of company products sufficient to take into account weight, shape and handling requirements
- Ability to read and write to handle work orders and labeling tasks
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
- Ability to count items and verify against prepared lists
- Customer service orientation and ability to effectively communicate requests and instructions
- High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) or equivalent experience
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience as a load builder
Responsibilities
- Checks contents of customers’ vehicles or delivery trucks as they leave the yard against invoice
- Ensures that all merchandise is accounted for and also that the yard loader has initialed and loaded the correct material and amount on invoice
- Handles resolution if discrepancies occur
- May handle customer materials returns
- Fill out credit request form, noting the condition of the materials and arrange for cashier to have return value credited to account
- Restores materials to appropriate storage
- Reads production schedule, customer order, work order, shipping order or requisition to determine items to be moved, gathered or distributed
- Tracks all inaccuracy to report back to operations managers
- Uses DDM tracker and may perform inventory searches
- Plans and paces own work efficiency in order to meet daily, weekly, project, or team related productivity goals
- Understands and observes all safety procedures and practices in order to prevent injury to self or co-workers
- Attends periodic safety meetings as required
- May recommend changes to improve safety procedures
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
