Warehouse Team Member

Diageo•Plainfield, IL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves performing all job functions safely in a busy, high-traffic warehouse environment. The team member will be regularly exposed to moving vehicles and pedestrians, and must be aware of their surroundings. The position requires regular lifting, pushing, or pulling of up to 50 lbs, and working in a noisy environment around machinery. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times, including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety-toed shoes, cut-resistant gloves, a bump cap or hard hat, and hair/beard nets if applicable. The role also involves tasks such as mopping and sweeping floors, using stretch wrap to cover pallets, picking up fallen cases, restacking pallets, setting manual dock plates, and operating manual dock and trailer doors. Lifting, moving, and adjusting pallets, as well as moving garbage and recycling bins, are also part of the duties. The job requires frequent interaction with forklifts, including entering and exiting them, and occasional completion of paperwork. The working environment includes indoor and outdoor conditions, with exposure to extreme cold, icy conditions, extreme heat and humidity, inclement weather, noise, and wet/slippery surfaces. Lifting is performed with assistance from other workers or equipment.

Requirements

Must be qualified to possess forklift operator’s license
Must regularly lift, push or pull up to +50 lbs.
Must wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, bump cap or hard hat, hair net, and beard net (if applicable).
Lifting Minimum: 20 lbs constantly
Maximum: 100 lbs occasionally
Repetitive Motion: Frequently manipulating controls on forklift. Constant entering and exiting forklift
Dexterity: Frequent manipulating controls on forklift. Frequent completion of paperwork
Climbing: Minimal
Standing/Sitting: Constant sitting. Frequent standing.
Occasional bending
Walking: Frequent
Pushing: Frequent to close overhead dock and trailer door and to operate cleaning equipment.
Pulling: Constant pulling overhead to get on and off forklift, Frequent pulling overhead to close trailer and dock doors. Frequent pulling to raise dock plates.
Vibration: Constant vibration from forklift operation.
Environment: Indoor, outdoor; subject to the following: Extreme cold, including icy conditions Extreme heat and humidity Occasional in climate weather Noise Wet, slippery
Flexibility is key to our success.

Nice To Haves

Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Responsibilities

Perform all job functions safely.
Mopping and Sweeping Floors
Using stretch wrap to cover pallets that the automatic system failed to cover.
Picking up cases of product that have fallen off pallets weighing 10lbs to 40 lbs.
Restacking pallets that driver knocked over.
Setting manual dock plates by pulling on a chain to release spring.
Overhead pulling to get on and off lift to do paperwork and talk to truck drivers during 12 hour shift.
Operating manual dock doors using a chain to lower and raise the large doors.
Operating manual trailer roll up/down doors requiring overhead pulling.
Lifting, moving, adjusting pallets prior to forklift picking them up.
Moving and dumping garbage and recycle bins.
Occasionally moving inbound receipt boxes.