Warehouse Receiving Associate

American Furniture Warehouse • Glendale, AZ

78d • $16 - $26

About The Position

The role of the Receiving Associate is to safely and efficiently load, unload, identify and tag merchandise from vendors and other AFW facilities. The Receiving Associate position offers one of the best distribution/warehouse earning packages in the area. Starting at $17/hour PLUS Shift Premiums! (+$0.50/hour on afternoons/+$2.00/hour on weekends)

Requirements

• Ability to become certified in the operation of warehouse equipment.
• Ability to use trailer chocks.
• Ability to operate a fork lift, reach truck, and pallet jack for loading and unloading trailers/containers.
• Ability to operate and use a hand truck.
• Ability to perform the correct lifting and team lifting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Commitment to AFW's safety policies and procedures and ability to promote awareness.
• Able to breakdown merchandise inside trailers/containers - unstack and position merchandise for removal from trailers/containers.
• Able to operate a radio frequency (RF) scanner.
• Able to safely operate load hoggs and dock plates.
• Accurately match packing list to vendor labels.
• Accurately load merchandise from the dock to trailers. Tie-in merchandise to trailers in a safe manner.
• Accurately identify merchandise by vendor label and apply matching AFW label to the merchandise when directed by the AFW management team.
• Able to sweep docks, trailers, and containers.
• Able to safely load merchandise onto pallets.
• Able to safely load and unload merchandise to and from pallets/skids.
• Ability to efficiently work independent of direct supervision.
• Able to have a flexible schedule and work all shifts, holidays, and weekends.
• Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates in a cooperative, constructive manner.

Benefits

• Starting at $17/hour PLUS Shift Premiums! (+$0.50/hour on afternoons/+$2.00/hour on weekends)
• All training provided by AFW.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees