Logistics Associate

Your Experience. Our Vision. ANDMORE is in search of Team Members to be a part of a revolutionary enterprise that brings unprecedented unity, stability, and opportunity to the furniture, gift, home decor and apparel industries. The ANDMORE Team strives to create exceptional and enduring value for our customers by creating innovative and sustainable business platforms for the home, gift and apparel industries. Through passionate dedication to customer service, ongoing commitment to quality and excellence, combined with a focus on constant improvement, we facilitate frictionless commerce between wholesale buyers and sellers in the industries we serve.

Our goals are very straightforward:

• Building an Exceptional Company
• Winning as a TEAM
• Holding each other accountable
• Sharing one standard: “The Best”
• Relentlessly executing on our Company strategy
• Delivering on our commitments
• Enjoying the journey

Your job, every job, is essential to attaining these goals. We expect you to:

• Treat others with respect
• Work hard, work smart, and be dedicated to winning through teamwork
• Support and hold each other accountable
• Share your positive team spirit
• Provide exceptional service to our customers
• Always act with integrity and honesty 

What You’ll Do

Packs, loads, unloads, transports, and moves freight within assigned work site to include any ANDMORE/AmericasMart campus, ANDMORE Logistics warehouse, or work site by performing the following duties.

• Reads work orders, or follows verbal instructions, to ascertain materials, pulls freight from the warehouse and readies freight for transport, packs goods into box containers to be moved; opens containers.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or from pallets, trays, racks, and shelves by hand or forklift; loads materials into vehicles and installs strapping, bracing, or padding to prevent shifting or damage in transit.
• Packs items from customers’ showrooms in boxes or other packing materials and shrink wraps freight to pallets.
• Operates industrial forklift to assist in loading/unloading of materials and products.
• Conveys materials from storage, or work sites, to designated areas.
• Attaches identifying tags or labels to materials or marks information on cases, crates, or other containers.
• Counts, weighs and records the number of units of materials moved or handled on the daily production sheet.
• Creates manifests for trucks as they are being loaded/unloaded.
• Creates delivery and pick-up receipts for freight and obtains signatures from owners of said freight.
• Inspects freight and other items for damage; notes damages and reports damages.
• Assists on loading docks as necessary.
• Ensures warehouse and other work areas are clean and orderly.
• Maintains warehouse locations in IMC systems to ensure all freight is easily locatable by all team members.

Highly Preferred Qualifications

Support Company Goals- Company goals are communicated to all employees.  It is everyone’s responsibility to support them.

Support Improvement Activities - Each employee will continuously identify defects throughout the company and where appropriate communicate them to management or the PEC (Performance Excellence Council).

Teamwork - It is the responsibility of each employee to create an environment of teamwork and lateral service so that the needs of our customers and each other are met.

Compliant Resolution - Never lose a customer.  Resolving customer complaints is the responsibility of each employee.  Whoever receives a customer complaint will own and resolve it to the customer’s satisfaction, as well as record it per company policy and procedure.

QUALIFICATIONS 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The individual will also need to hold a valid driver’s license and be able to drive a box truck.  Individuals should also hold a forklift certification.  Night shift is required two months out of the year; at a minimum.  The ability to prioritize and work in a fast-paced environment is a must.  Also, be able to work in a team environment as well as independently. 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 GED) is required; at least 3 years prior related work experience is preferred.  Experience with packing and handling fragile materials.  Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) is a plus.  Candidate should have a clean driving record with the ability, from time to time operate the company's 26’ box truck and willingness to pursue obtaining a CDL.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to interface with customers and team members. A keen sense of attention to detail.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add and subtract four-digit numbers and to multiply and divide using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several 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 regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell.  The employee will frequently lift up to 70 pounds.  The employee will also, on a regular basis, operate manual pallet jacks moving freight in excess of 500 lbs.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

To meet the demands of our business, overtime hours into evenings, weekends and/or an irregular work schedule will occasionally be required.

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.

Why you’ll love working at ANDMORE

Our Team Members are our most critical asset. The foundation for our success is built on teamwork, talent, creativity, hard work, and dedication. Together, we truly have a transformational opportunity to positively impact the industries in which we work. We are pleased to offer a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services that you would expect to see at a great company like IMC including competitive medical, dental, vision, EAP, FSA, and 401k Retirement Match to name just a few. There are also a few differentiators like unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, BYOD (cell phone compensation), tuition reimbursement, Workplace Rewards providing discounts to a wide variety of consumer products and services, a “seed” grant of at least $1,000 annually into your Value HSA Plan, and considerably more!

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: ANDMORE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About ANDMORE

ANDMORE serves as the center of commerce for the wholesale furniture, gift, home decor, and apparel industries. With more than 20 million square feet of premium wholesale showroom space in High Point, N.C., Las Vegas, and Atlanta, ANDMORE has more than 60 years of relationships and experience creating scalable business platforms for wholesale commerce. With the launch of the digital sales and marketing solutions and B2B e-commerce marketplace, ANDMORE now provides the only omnichannel platform that seamlessly connects physical and digital wholesale commerce for the industries we serve.

For more information, visit www.andmore.com. ANDMORE is a Blackstone and Fireside Investments portfolio company.

Salary : $1,000