What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Associate - 1st Shift position at HODGE?
Summary: As the Warehouse Associate, you are essential to the safety, quality, and productivity of the warehouse. Your primary role is to help smoothly operate our warehouse by performing various tasks related to material handling, inventory control, and maintaining a safe and organized environment. This position does not involve the use of heavy industrial equipment.
Essential Duties: Essential job duties for this position include the following items.
Material Picking and Packing: Efficiently pick items from the warehouse based on order requirements. Verify order details, including quantities and specifications. Pack orders securely and accurately, ensuring that products are well-protected for shipping. Organize shipments by priority and apply appropriate labeling. Collaborate with departments to ensure proper documentation and timely deliveries.
Inventory Management: Maintain accurate inventory records by documenting material movements and updating the inventory management system. Assist in counting, organizing, and categorizing inventory to optimize storage space.
Material Handling: Receive and verify incoming shipments, checking for accuracy and reporting discrepancies. Assist in loading and unloading materials from trucks, ensuring proper stacking and storage of products. Transport materials within the warehouse using manual equipment like hand trucks, carts, or dollies.
Effective Communication: Interact professionally and effectively with peers, suppliers, and leadership, providing clear updates on material movement and assisting with any issues or inquiries.
Safety: Ensure a safe working environment by upholding safety protocols and promoting a safety-first culture among all employees.
Demonstrate HODGE Values: Model HODGE core values of Family, Integrity, Ambition, Respect, and Balance. Uphold, support, and promote all company policies and procedures. Demonstrate that success comes from treating people like family.
Additional Duties: Perform tasks assigned to support dynamic changes in business conditions.
Requirements:Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, the Warehouse Associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and ability required.
Education/Experience:
Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Attention to detail and excellent organization skills.
Commitment to promoting a positive workplace and safety-first culture.
Basic proficiency in using warehouse management software and/or Microsoft Office Tools.
Experience in warehouse operations is a plus.
Additional Details :
Physical demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Physical Activities
- Stand: Always
- Walk: Always
- Sit: Frequently
- Use hands to finger, handle, or feel: Always
- Reach with hands and arms: Frequently
- Climb or balance: Sometimes
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl: Sometimes
- Talk or hear: Always
- Taste or smell: None
Weight to be lifted/force to be exerted
- Up to 10 pounds: Frequently
- Up to 25 pounds: Frequently
- Up to 50 pounds: Frequently
Vision requirements
- Close vision: Clear vision at 20 inches or less
- Distance vision: Clear vision at 20 feet or more
- Color vision: Ability to identify and distinguish colors
- Peripheral vision: Ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point
- Depth perception: Three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships
- Ability to adjust focus: Ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus
Work environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.
Typical noise level for the work environment of this job
- Moderate noise: examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic
Environmental conditions
- Work near moving mechanical parts: Frequently
- Fumes or air borne particles: Frequently
- Vibration: Sometimes
Salary : $42,173 - $57,789