2nd Shift - Distribution Center Associate

Job Description:

Pick, pack and load product from the distribution center to delivery trucks, manually or with forklifts, dollies, or hand trucks. Work second shift hours which include varying end times.

Work Hours: 5:00pm Start Time

Essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Read customer order, work order, or shipping order to determine items to be picked and loaded for customer
• Assemble customer orders from stock and place orders on pallets to be loaded on delivery trucks
• Load product on trucks as required in predetermined order
• Ensure product is not damaged and is loaded in a manner that allows for ease in sorting and selecting upon delivery
• Perform equipment inspections and complete log sheets at the beginning of every shift
• Clean distribution center and plug all necessary equipment into charging stations at the end of every shift
• Follow OSHA and safety standards, report violations to direct supervisor (DC Supervisor - 2nd Shift)
• Other duties, as required

Physical Demands:

• Job requires employees to be able to stand for prolonged periods of time
• Repetitive, physically demanding work and regularly required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, and use hands to handle or feel, and sort and load
• Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk and hear
• Frequently required to lift and/or move excessive weight (50 pounds or more)
• Required to use and read computer and scanner screens, communicate required reporting
• Expected to maintain certain levels of productivity and accuracy
• Work second shift hours

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be able to communicate and comprehend both written and oral information
• Competence in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to operate necessary equipment (forklift, stock picker, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, carts)
• Must be certified by Acorn Distributors on all equipment as required by OSHA within 90 days
• High School diploma or equivalent
• A minimum of six (6) months to (1) year of experience in a distribution center

Equipment Used:

Forklift, stock picker, turret, electric walkie rider, pallet jack, riding floor scrubber and vacuum, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, and carts