Warehouse Associate

Description

General Purpose of Job

Manufacture, organize, and prepare garage door materials for installation, service, and wholesale, according to sales orders and quality standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Fabricate garage door sections according to customer specifications, including insulating, lining, cutting window openings and installing framed windows.
• Build overhead garage door tracking systems and prepare for installation, service, and wholesale. 
• Pack, organize and stage garage door hardware kits.
• Pull doors, openers, tracks and hardware and stage materials.
• Load and unload raw material and supply trucks.
• Assist Field Service team members load trucks.
• Perform inventory counts and track inventory levels.
• Complete paperwork for materials received.
• Distribute deliveries.
• Deliver completed doors to job sites.  
• Assist Inside Sales team as needed.
• Adhere to and maintain compliance with established systems, policies and procedures.
• Comply with all safety and housekeeping expectations and 5s standards.
• Keep supervisor(s) informed of progress, issues and successes.
• Identify, recommend and implement opportunities for continuous performance and process improvements.
• Contribute to a spirit of cooperation and teamwork within and between departments and shifts.
• Demonstrate and uphold Company values.

Requirements

Skill, Competency, and Experience Requirements

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.  

• High school diploma or GED required.
• One (1) year of warehouse experience preferred.  
• Strong communication skills required. 
• Computer skill proficiency required. 
• Ability to obtain forklift certification required.
• Ability to obtain a DOT driver’s license and maintain a clean driving record.  
• Ability to operate tools and equipment to include a computer and various small hand tools.  
• A high level of attention to detail, organization and follow-through skills.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. 
• Ability to read, interpret and carry out instructions in written, oral and diagram form.  
• Strong customer service (internal and external) focus.

Physical Demands

The employee is regularly required to sit, stand and walk. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds or more with assistance. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, touch objects, tools or controls and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and push or pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, vibration, heat, cold and stress. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.