Material Handler I PT - AM
About The Position
The Material Handler I receives donations and transports, sorts, selects, prices, and displays merchandise. The role supports Goodwill’s mission and organizational goals while representing its ethics, policies, and values. It works collaboratively with management and staff, provides customer and donor assistance, maintains a safe and clean work environment, protects company property, and keeps work-related information confidential. The position is part-time and located at the Allen Road location in Bakersfield, California. It is classified as non-exempt and receives supervision from the Retail Store Manager; it has no supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
- Minimal ability to read and write.
- Ability to pick up and carry items weighing up to 70 pounds.
- Ability to present information effectively and respond tactfully, courteously, and cooperatively to questions from groups, managers, employees, clients, customers, and the public.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret a wide range of instructions and handle abstract and concrete variables while exercising judgment, resourcefulness, ingenuity, and initiative.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills to interact with all levels of management and staff.
- Ability to operate basic office equipment, including a computer, telephone, cell phone, tablet, fax machine, and copy machine.
- High level of integrity and business ethics.
- Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.
Nice To Haves
- Prior customer service experience.
Responsibilities
- Complete opening activities, including opening doors, placing cones for trucks, preparing for truck switches, setting up water cooling stations and the donation drive-through, and moving gaylords.
- Move, sort, select, tag, price, and display merchandise according to company procedures, including textiles, wares, shoes, and furniture; distribute products to the sales floor.
- Receive and process donated goods, direct donors to appropriate locations, and issue receipts or printed information.
- Maintain neat and legible records of daily activities, donation counts, processing counts, and other required reports.
- Perform housekeeping and cleaning duties in the donation area, bathrooms, and interior and exterior of the store, including cleaning fixtures and floors, completing five-minute drills before breaks, removing garbage, and sweeping, mopping, or vacuuming.
- Cooperatively cover coworkers’ breaks and work as a team.
- Prepare salvage items by making boxes, sorting items, ensuring resale-quality products are not placed in salvage, and wrapping oversized or bulk furniture and gaylords for transport.
- Build boxed furniture for placement on the sales floor.
- Learn pricing lists and help price items according to company pricing policies.
- Complete closing activities, including closing doors, retrieving truck cones, cleaning water cooling stations, dismantling the donation drive-through, moving gaylords, and recovering the sales floor.
- Follow safety and loss-prevention policies and procedures; maintain safe work conditions and report and document hazards, potentially hazardous conditions, and unsafe practices.
- Provide customer service and maintain a positive public image, including assisting donors with safe donations, helping with carry-outs, and greeting and interacting with customers on the sales floor.
- Attend required safety training, drills, meetings, and training sessions; safeguard company property, including donated goods.
- Maintain confidentiality and comply with privacy policies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
