What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Associate - Night Shift position at Scenic Fruit Company?
Job Description
The Warehouse Associate operates forklifts, receives, ships and maintains accurate inventory of product. They ensure that the workplace remains safe and clean and that all food safety practices and GMP’s are properly followed.
Reasonable Accommodations:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function and physical demands satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Essential Functions:
This position has no supervisory responsibility but may provide leadership and guidance to volunteers and/or temporary staff and/or assist with orientation of new members of the Warehouse Department.
Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Work is generally performed in a variety of environments: interior operational settings, and outdoors, with frequent interruptions and irregularities in the work schedule. Some primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time; to frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, twist, grasp, and make repetitive hand movements in the performance of daily duties; lift, carry, push, and/or pull moderate to heavy amounts of weight; to operate assigned equipment and vehicles; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be subject to repetitive motion such as typing, data entry and vision to monitor. Requires frequent exposure to cold temperatures – Temperature is approximately 34 F and Freezer area temperature is 0 F.
Working environment may be subject to close quarter situations, high and precarious places, moving mechanical parts, and vibrations as it relates to the production manufacturing setting. Exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, noxious odors, gases, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions. Constantly functioning in a cold environment, falling debris from pallets, crates, totes, and operational hazards of powered industrial forklift and pallet jack.
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
Company Description
Scenic Fruit Company, a family-owned company, is driven by a passion for our customers’ success, the well-being of our employees, a commitment to our local community, and the preservation of the global environment. We strive to develop and maintain partnerships with like-minded companies who desire long-term, sustainable relationships based on honesty and integrity.
Scenic Fruit Company, a family-owned company, is driven by a passion for our customers’ success, the well-being of our employees, a commitment to our local community, and the preservation of the global environment. We strive to develop and maintain partnerships with like-minded companies who desire long-term, sustainable relationships based on honesty and integrity.
The Warehouse Associate operates forklifts, receives, ships and maintains accurate inventory of product. They ensure that the workplace remains safe and clean and that all food safety practices and GMP’s are properly followed.
Reasonable Accommodations:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function and physical demands satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Essential Functions:
- Load and unload trucks by moving products safely using powered industrial forklift and pallet jack equipment.
- Move and/or select product for shipment and production fulfillment.
- Navigate and operate ERP system (Parity Factory)
- Check product for accuracy and placement utilizing system scanners.
- Put away product as directed by warehouse supervisor.
- Promote a safe work environment and identifies all personal safety and food safety concerns as well as cost saving opportunities.
- Ensure inbound product matches customer’s certificate of analysis.
- Verify all pallets are properly wrapped and secure.
- Clear work area of loose wood, plastic, and debris. Work areas require sweeping and emptying of waste receptacles daily.
- Report any faulty equipment, damage to facility, damage to product and all safety hazards immediately.
- Read and respond to internal emails.
- Must have open availability to work a flexible schedule when production requires including ability to work entire shift, extended shift hours, weekends, holidays, and required overtime in accordance with Oregon State laws.
- Other duties as requested.
- Conduct physical Inventory annually and cycle counts semi-annually.
- Support seasonal front dock operations.
This position has no supervisory responsibility but may provide leadership and guidance to volunteers and/or temporary staff and/or assist with orientation of new members of the Warehouse Department.
Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 1 year distribution warehouse experience
- 1 year recent forklift experience
- Ability to become forklift certified
- Ability to navigate forklift in narrow spaces.
- Ability to safely and properly distribute weight in trailers.
- Familiar with Warehouse Management Systems and Radio Frequencies
- Computer proficiency with MS Office
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to read numbers and labels, add, subtract and multiply
- Must be able to communicate and read in English
- Must have a valid driver license
- Functional/ Technical Expertise
- Initiative
- Organizing & Planning
- Team Player
Work is generally performed in a variety of environments: interior operational settings, and outdoors, with frequent interruptions and irregularities in the work schedule. Some primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time; to frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, twist, grasp, and make repetitive hand movements in the performance of daily duties; lift, carry, push, and/or pull moderate to heavy amounts of weight; to operate assigned equipment and vehicles; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be subject to repetitive motion such as typing, data entry and vision to monitor. Requires frequent exposure to cold temperatures – Temperature is approximately 34 F and Freezer area temperature is 0 F.
Working environment may be subject to close quarter situations, high and precarious places, moving mechanical parts, and vibrations as it relates to the production manufacturing setting. Exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, noxious odors, gases, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions. Constantly functioning in a cold environment, falling debris from pallets, crates, totes, and operational hazards of powered industrial forklift and pallet jack.
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
Company Description
Scenic Fruit Company, a family-owned company, is driven by a passion for our customers’ success, the well-being of our employees, a commitment to our local community, and the preservation of the global environment. We strive to develop and maintain partnerships with like-minded companies who desire long-term, sustainable relationships based on honesty and integrity.
Scenic Fruit Company, a family-owned company, is driven by a passion for our customers’ success, the well-being of our employees, a commitment to our local community, and the preservation of the global environment. We strive to develop and maintain partnerships with like-minded companies who desire long-term, sustainable relationships based on honesty and integrity.
