Reports to: Department Supervisor

Summary: This position receives, stores and distributes products within the warehouse, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all job functions

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist shipping and receiving unloading trucks, checking in merchandise, in a safe and efficient manner.
• Move materials and items from receiving or storage areas to shipping or to other designated areas.
• Sort and place materials or items on racks, shelves or in bins according to directions from supervisor.
• Mark, de-label, price and sort product as directed by supervisor.
• Open bales, crates and other containers.
• Assist in counting of physical inventory.
• Count items for distribution within plant to ensure conformance to company standards.
• May be assigned facilities maintenance duties as needed.
• Sweep, dust and mop. Organize warehouse and work area for orderliness at all times.
• Wear the proper safety equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED): or one to three months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combinations of education and experience. Some knowledge of merchandise or willingness to learn about merchandise merchandising.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add and subtract six digit numbers and to multiply and divide.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, and use hand to finger handling, or feel, reach with hands and arms up to 90% of the time. Kneel, stoop, crouch, talk and hear. The employee must lift and/or move up to 20 pounds up to 80% of the time and lift/or move 40 pounds 20% of the time. Anything over 40 pounds requires a team lift or mechanical assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Note: Ability to operate a manual pallet jack after adequate training.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to dust, mildew, mold and smoke damaged merchandise. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.