Warehouse Person (Loader)

Pepsico • Nitro, WV

16h • Onsite

About The Position

This labor-intensive position is responsible for hand building pallets of product for bulk and route trucks, requiring strict attention to order accuracy for loading outgoing and unloading incoming trucks. The role involves working from an electronic order system or order sheets, using a forklift and/or an electronic pallet jack. The Warehouse Person (Loader) is responsible for accuracy in loading and complying with shipper/receiver documentation, while maintaining a clean and safe work environment. The position may require working across a wide variety of weather conditions and hours, with shift duration depending on the workload and potentially varying daily. Specific duties include transport truck loading (moving full pallets from the warehouse onto a trailer and removing returned pallets/plastic flats), bulk truck loading (selecting designated packages and flavors, loading them onto a pallet, maintaining stability through proper stacking and shrink-wrapping, and unloading returned products), and route truck loading (selecting customized products/pallets for each truck based on salesperson's orders, and unloading returned products and pallets/plastic flats). The job demands frequent lifting of a very high volume of cases, each weighing 20-45 pounds, repeatedly during long work periods, and requires constant standing, walking, bending, twisting, squatting, reaching, and grasping as product is moved.

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

• 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
• Regular, reliable, predictable attendance

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