Material Handler

Job Details

• Job Title:
  
  Material Handler I
• Location:
  
  Champaign Warehouse, Champaign, IL 61821
• Position Type:
  Part Time
• Education Level: Not Specified
• Salary Range: $16.50 – $16.50 per hour
• Travel Percentage:
  None
• Shift: Any
• Department:
  Retail Operations/Warehouse
• Reports To:
  
  Warehouse and Sustainability Manager
• Classification:
  Non-Exempt
• EEO-1 Category:
  Service Workers
• Safety Sensitive:
  Yes
• Authorized Driver:
  No
• Supervises: N/A

Moves, processes, ships, receives, and controls raw donations, salvage, and recycling inventory and stored inventory. Opportunity for forklift authorization may arise and could lead to added compensation.

• Coordinate and expedite the flow of donated goods between the processing, storage, dock areas and salvage.
• Assist team in providing required materials for production.
• Process and control inventory following established procedures.
• Load and unload tractor trailers with donated goods.
• Operate a baler and lift tables in accordance with OSHA and LLGI standards.
• Perform janitorial duties.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area, including assisting with trash and salvage removal.
• Participate in required training.
• Manage time effectively to ensure work is completed.
• Contribute to team success by involving others in work processes, decisions and actions.
• Monitor and recognize security risks and thefts and assist in their prevention.
• Ensure the customer’s perspective drives satisfaction.
• Seek to understand the customer’s circumstances, problems, expectations and needs.
• Identify customer service issues and create solutions.
• Build customer awareness around our mission.
• Identify and correct conditions that affect employee and customer safety.
• Comply with safety standards.
• Identify opportunities, generate ideas to improve warehouse and salvage objectives.
• Initiate action to maintain daily warehouse and salvage goals.
• Partner with all Retail players to identify, assess, create and implement process improvement.
• Embrace the values, vision and mission of LLGI.
• Initiate action to accomplish objectives and be proactive.
• Understand individual differences and values to build workplace relationships.
• Learn and apply new job-related information in a timely manner.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.

• Adaptability
• Managing Conflict
• Stress Tolerance
• Communication
• Tenacity
• Urgency

• Requires basic math skills.
• Requires ability to analyze situations, recognize potential issues before they arise and recommend appropriate solutions.

• Consistently at work and on time on scheduled work days.
• Conveys information clearly through verbal communication.
• Works independently while fostering a strong team atmosphere.
• Interacts with people in a manner that enhances dignity, privacy and confidentiality.
• Knowledge of and ability to follow all LLGI policies and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of information related to LLGI operations.
• Demonstrates professionalism.
• Promotes diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.
• Demonstrates sensitivity and ability to communicate with a diverse population.
• Embraces the mission, vision and values of LLGI.

• Lifts or moves up to 50 pounds of clothing and housewares safely on and off retail shelving fixtures up to 10 feet high, clothing racks 4 feet high, and z-racks 6 feet high.
• Requires ability to stand for extended periods.
• Requires ability to reach by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
• Pushes and pulls z-racks holding up to 100 pieces of clothing and weighing a minimum of 150 pounds.
• Bends and reaches into gaylords 5 feet high to remove clothing and housewares.
• Requires ability to use pallet jack with loads ranging from 100 to 700 pounds safely.
• Requires ability to perform a combination of tasks such as stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting, reaching, carrying, pushing or pulling objects.
• Requires visual and hearing ability sufficient to power equipment in a safe manner.

• Works in a light industrial/warehouse environment with exposure to heat and cold.
• Subject to exposure to allergens including dirt, dust, mold, metals, rubber, plastics, latex, and pet hair.
• Requires visual acuity to work in an environment with changing and/or low light levels.

• Trailers, baler, bale carts, lift table, pallet jack, stacker, scales, compactor, wheeled spring carts, wheeled deep carts, wheeled z-racks, 2‑wheel dollies (hand truck), 4‑wheel flat carts, material lifts, furniture dollies, trash bin/can, trash dumpster, personal protective equipment, basic tools of the assigned work area, phone/non‑voice radio, computer, fax, photocopier, mops, mop buckets, brooms, dust pans, vacuums, cleaning solvents.

• LLGI Staff
• Volunteers/ Community Service Workers
• Transport Company
• Vendors/Suppliers
• Donors/Customers