What are the responsibilities and job description for the Order Picker position at Olympia Chimney Supply?
Join our Distribution Center team as an Order Picker and play a critical role in getting the right products to our customers—fast, accurate, and safely. If you’re detail-driven, dependable, and ready to work in a hands-on warehouse environment, this is a great opportunity to grow your skills and make an impact every day.
Summary/Objective
The Order Picker works in the Copperfield Distribution Center, picking and preparing items for shipment by performing the following duties to safety, quality and productivity standards. This role plays a critical part in ensuring order accuracy and customer satisfaction.
Essential Functions
- Accurately pick products for assigned orders using an RF scanner gun. This includes scanning product locations, verifying product types, and confirming quantities.
- Follow designated pick paths and become familiar with warehouse layout and inventory.
- Operate, or be willing to train on, an order picker or high-reach truck to retrieve items stored on higher shelves.
- Communicate inventory concerns, discrepancies, or shortages to the supervisor and record them in the shared computer worksheet.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area and ensure equipment is in proper working condition. Follow all safety regulations, including the use of harnesses and completing daily vehicle inspections.
- Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail to ensure order accuracy.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Competencies
- Humility: Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s own importance; putting the needs of another person before your own and thinking of others before yourself
- Results Orientation (Get It Done): Having a work ethic and a way of overcoming challenges and getting things done without making excuses; delivering on results and does what he/she says they will do
- Customer Focus: Meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers to achieve positive outcomes
- Decision Making & Judgement: Makes timely, informed decisions that take into account the facts, goals, constraints and risks
- Technical Expertise: Able to be trained on use of scan gun, pallet jack, cherry-picker, order picker, and other tools/equipment used in order picking
- Communication: Listening effectively, transmitting information accurately and understandably, and actively seeking feedback non-defensively
- Professionalism: Dealing directly and forthrightly with people and problems, persisting to get the job done, and managing personal responses and stress
- Dependability/Reliability: Following through on commitments, producing timely work to required – or higher - standards, and pitching in to get the job done.
- Quality Orientation: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.
This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration.Temperature is varied to the temperature outside due to open dock doors.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds unassisted. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must be comfortable with heights.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position during the first shift of the workday, currently 7:30 am – 4:00 pm.
- During peak season, shifts may extend up to 2 hours later, depending on workload demands.
Travel
No travel is expected for this position
Required Education and Experience
- Minimum of a high school education or GED equivalent
- Prior Distribution Center pick work and experience operating various lifts preferred
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential
AAP/EEO Statement
- Olympia Chimney Supply Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries, Copperfield Chimney, and Olympia Chimney and Venting, are Equal Opportunity Employers. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.