Warehouse Person (Loader)
About The Position
This labor-intensive position is responsible for hand building pallets of product for bulk and route trucks. It requires strict attention to order accuracy for loading outgoing trucks and unloading incoming trucks. The role involves working from an electronic order system or order sheets to build loads using a forklift and/or electronic pallet jack, ensuring accuracy in loading and compliance with shipper/receiver documentation. Employees must follow warehouse instructions, maintain a clean and safe work environment, and may be required to work across a wide variety of weather conditions and hours, with shift duration varying daily based on workload. Specific duties include transport truck loading (moving full pallets, removing returns, unloading raw materials), bulk truck loading (selecting products, building stable, shrink-wrapped pallets, unloading returns), and route truck loading (selecting customized products/pallets for specific salespersons' orders, unloading returns).
Requirements
- 18 years or older
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in a warehouse environment (e.g., order selector/picking product storage, product staging, powered pallet jack/forklifts, etc.)
- Driving a forklift (e.g., performing basic operations such as driving forwards, driving backwards, lifting and lowering boom, maneuvering in tight areas without damaging product, etc.)
- Working with racking systems and loading/unloading pallets (e.g., pulling and placing pallets on/off vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically, etc.)
- Experience working in a team environment (e.g., cooperating with co-workers, joint problem solving, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Hand build pallets of product for bulk and route trucks
- Load outgoing trucks and unload incoming trucks with strict attention to order accuracy
- Work from Electronic order system or order sheets to build loads using a forklift and/or electronic pallet jack
- Comply with shipper/receiver documentation
- Follow warehouse instructions in building loads
- Maintain a clean and safe work environment
- Move full pallets of products from the warehouse onto a trailer and remove any returned pallets/plastic flats (Transport truck loading)
- Unload raw materials and place them in designated warehouse space (Transport truck loading)
- Select designated packages and flavors of products from the warehouse and load them onto a pallet (Bulk truck loading)
- Maintain the stability of the pallet through proper stacking and shrink-wrapping (Bulk truck loading)
- Unload returned products and pallets/plastic flats (Bulk truck loading)
- Select designated packages and flavors or pallets of products from the warehouse and load them into the truck (Route truck loading)
- Unload returned products and pallets/plastic flats (Route truck loading)
- Drive power pallet jack or forklift to picking area and build pallet/load according to load sheet or voice pick audio equipment (if applicable)
- Mark load ticket for out of stock items
- Wrap pallet when pallet/load is finished
- Turn in paper work with order for check before loading and have truck checked
- Stage pallet and/or load into truck when ready
- Complete partial pallets and put away mixed pallets
- Maintain proper housekeeping standards in work area
- Maintain regular, reliable, predictable attendance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
