What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Associate - Red Hook position at Plimpton & Hills?
Job Details
Job Location: 15 Red Hook - Red Hook, NY
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range: $20.00 - $22.00 Hourly
Travel Percentage: None
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: Warehouse
Description
Warehouse Associate
Reports To: Branch Manager
Work Hours: Full Time
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Branch(s): Red Hook, NY 12571
Position Purpose:
Provide excellent internal and external customer service through following proper shipping and receiving procedures, effective communication and following safety practices.
Essential Functions:
- Safely load and unload delivery vehicles
- Follow regulations and safety standards
- Ability to operate forklifts, hand trucks, and pallet jacks
- Interact with customers on a daily basis
- Separate transfers and load them onto respective trucks
- Determine best shipping method for products according to company policy
- Locate transfers to complete orders and place them on the corresponding trucks
- Ensure that products and orders are placed on the correct trucks for delivery
- Use basic computer and math skills to determine shipping locations and quantities
- Receive shipments, verify products on packing slips are there and sign corresponding paperwork upon receipt
- Inspect contents of deliveries to ensure that the product is not damaged before leaving
- Handle returning unsatisfactory shipments or receiving replacements
- Label deliveries and allocate them to their designated place
- Put product away into correct locations with the use of a barcode reader
- Manage time in order to complete work load for the day
- Read and decipher packing slips, computer screens and barcode readers
- Practice teamwork in order to best service internal and external customers
- Remain up-to-date on all safety practices and standards
- Maintain a safe, clean and professional work environment
- Other duties as required
Qualifications
Experience, Education & Skills:
- Warehouse experience preferred
- Meet safety sensitive equipment requirements
- Ability to operate motor vehicle, forklift, barcode reader, currently used hardware and software
- High school diploma or GED preferred.
Physical Requirements:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
- Very heavy work. Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Salary : $20 - $22
