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Join our team as a Distribution Assistant Forklift Operator. You will be an essential part of our team, responsible for ensuring seamless fulfillment services by picking, packing and shipping products to our valued customers. From utilizing forklifts to maintaining accurate inventory levels, your contributions will play a vital role in our operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Order Fulfillment
  • Identify and gather products, based on pick ticket, for assembly of customer orders.
  • Assemble orders accurately, following customer specifications, in preparation for delivery or shipping.
  • Prepare parcels for mailing and shipping utilizing both American and third-party software solutions.
  • Research, track and provide status on wayward packages.
  • Responsible for staging completed boxes, pallets in designated shipping areas
• Receiving
  • Assist with entry-level shipping and receiving, unloading trucks, checking in merchandise, and matching purchase orders to sales orders.
  • Sort and place materials or items on racks, shelves or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code.
• Recordkeeping
  • Maintain files of customer invoices and supporting documentation, including the filing of new documents and those returned to the department on the daily basis.
  • Create new files for shared accounts, split agreements and account transfers.
  • Processes file requests and tracks outgoing files or invoices.
  • Research, invoice and inventory archives as needed.
  • Transfer files into archive on an annual basis.
• Maintenance
  • Ensure distribution center is accessible and safe for all team members and visitors by being observant of and/or reporting safety concerns.
  • Maintain distribution center cleanliness standards.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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

• Required: High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED); no experience required.
• Preferred: High School Diploma or GED; six months or more related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Technology and Competency Abilities

Demonstrated proficiency in the following technologies:

• Internet use
• Ability to obtain familiarity with the following:
  • APS (American’s PeopleSoft)
  • UPS shipping software
  • FedEx shipping software

Demonstrated competency in the following areas:

• Customer focus
• Collaborates
• Communicates effectively.
• Ensures accountability.
• Instills trust.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

In order to be an authorized operator of material handling equipment such as forklifts, powered pallet jacks, reach trucks or order pickers, forklift certification must be achieved and maintained. Training will be provided.

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 regularly required to use hands to handle, grasp and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, bend, twist, sit, stoop, kneel, or crouch.

Specific vision capabilities include depth perception and the ability to differentiate between colors.

The employee must have the ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds frequently and 70 pounds occasionally.

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 outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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