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Warehouse Associate

Depatie Fluid Power Co.
Portage, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 9/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/22/2026
Description

As a Warehouse Associate, you will play an important role in keeping our warehouse organized, accurate, safe, and operating efficiently. You will be responsible for receiving, storing, picking, packing, scanning, and distributing materials, tools, equipment, and products throughout the facility.

You will work closely with our warehouse, shipping, receiving, and customer service teams to make sure the right products are available and customer orders are accurately prepared for pickup or delivery.

Requirements

What You Will Accomplish

  • Read and interpret customer orders, work orders, shipping documents, requisitions, and picking tickets to determine the materials and products needed.
  • Accurately pick, pull, pack, stage, and ship customer orders according to established procedures.
  • Receive incoming materials and verify quantities, product information, and documentation.
  • Move materials and products between receiving, storage, picking, staging, and shipping areas.
  • Organize and store inventory on racks, shelves, bins, pallets, and designated storage locations based on product type, size, style, product code, or other established systems.
  • Use scanners, warehouse technology, inventory systems, and other tools to accurately track material movement and customer orders.
  • Mark, label, and identify materials using the appropriate methods.
  • Open and process bales, crates, boxes, containers, and other incoming shipments.
  • Record quantities and information for materials received and complete required warehouse, receiving, shipping, and inventory documentation.
  • Prepare customer orders for pickup and delivery, ensuring orders are accurate, properly packaged, and ready when needed.
  • Maintain accurate inventory organization and help ensure materials can be located quickly and efficiently.
  • Operate company equipment, including forklifts and other material-handling equipment, safely and responsibly.
  • Maintain clean, organized, accessible, and safe warehouse areas.
  • Properly care for company equipment and help protect company property, inventory, tools, and other assets.
  • Follow all company health, safety, environmental, warehouse, and material-handling procedures.
  • Support other warehouse and operational activities as needed.

What You Will Achieve

You will help create a warehouse environment where materials are in the right place, customer orders are accurate and on time, inventory is handled properly, and the team can work efficiently and safely.

Your attention to detail, reliability, willingness to learn, and initiative will directly contribute to operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and company success.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who is dependable, motivated, willing to learn, and ready to put in the work. Previous warehouse experience is valuable, but we also recognize that the right attitude and willingness to learn can be just as important.

Successful candidates will demonstrate

  • Warehouse, distribution, shipping/receiving, or material-handling experience
  • Forklift experience preferred
  • Ability to learn and adapt to warehouse technology, scanners, inventory systems, and computer-based processes
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
  • Ability to follow written and verbal instructions
  • Strong initiative and work ethic
  • Ability to work independently while contributing to a team
  • Dependable attendance and punctuality
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities and business needs
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Commitment to working safely and following established procedures

Physical Requirements

This position requires an individual who can safely and consistently perform the physical requirements of a warehouse environment, including:

  • Standing and walking for extended periods of time
  • Regularly lifting, moving, and carrying up to 70 pounds
  • Repeatedly bending, reaching, lifting, and moving materials
  • Safely mounting and dismounting from the back of a truck
  • Working in an active warehouse environment around inventory, equipment, forklifts, and other material-handling activities

Why This Role Matters

Every customer order starts with accurate warehouse work. You will help make sure our products move through the facility efficiently and arrive where they need to be, when they need to be there.

If you are someone who takes initiative, works hard, learns quickly, adapts to technology, and takes pride in doing the job right, we want to hear from you.

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