Warehouse Shipping Associate

Job Summary

Warehouse Associate is responsible for processing incoming and outgoing shipments from the warehouse and organizing the warehouse to ensure efficient shipment storage as well as transporting products between two facilities.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Load, unload, move, count/pick, stack and stage product and materials using a sit‑down or stand‑up forklift as required.
• Unload and verify quantities, specifications and quality of orders.
• Receive goods into the ERP system by way of scan gun or computer prior to physically placing them away by pallet jack or forklift into the proper bay.
• Pick multi‑product and batch‑managed orders strictly adhering to FIFO and/or other customer requirements.
• Pick using a scan gun or computer apparatus ensuring accuracy of physical pick to system quantities.
• Build shipment pallets efficiently and load dock‑level trucks.
• Stock pallet racks with inventory from daily production while verifying counts.
• Transfer pallets to the proper location according to management direction by way of scan gun or computer.
• Pick raw materials to be used in subsequent days’ production, transferring and staging them physically and in system as required by the production plan.
• Assist in cycle‑counting inventory and verifying quantities on orders and in the warehouse as required.
• Follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) training, along with company pre‑requisite programs, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOPs).
• Follow set company and OSHA safety rules, regulations, and guidelines at all times.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as necessary.

Performance Indicators

• Successfully process incoming and outgoing shipments.
• Successfully maintain the warehouse organized to ensure efficient shipment storage.

What does a Warehouse Associate need to achieve?

• Successfully transfer materials between company’s facilities.
• Receive deliveries into ERP.
• Manage timecard, arrive on time, punch out for scheduled breaks.
• Be a team player, be coachable.

Education, Training

High School Diploma or GED, preferred.

Experience Required

• 2 years of forklift experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Excellent verbal communication skills; must work effectively with others.
• Work well with others.
• Ability to multi‑task while being detail oriented.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision while remaining productive at all times.
• Ability to drive a box truck.
• Knowledge of warehouse and lift trucks.
• Excellent attendance and dependability.
• Must be able to work flexible hours to include overtime and weekends on short notice.

Language, Computer, Numeracy

• SAP knowledge preferred.
• Proficient personal computer skills (MS Office applications – Word, Office, Excel).
• Working knowledge of computers and basic knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to read and write in the English language.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals, unit of measure conversions.

Typical Physical Activity

• Regularly involves working in a refrigerated warehouse (34–37°F).
• Regularly involves talking or listening, sitting, and the use of hands and fingers.
• Regularly involves going up and down stairs.
• Frequently involves reaching with hands and arms, standing and walking.
• Frequently involves standing and walking.
• Occasionally involves crouching, stooping, kneeling and/or climbing or balancing.
• Must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, work with the fingers, and perceive attributes of objects and materials.
• Involves moderate physical activity performing non‑strenuous daily activities of a primarily administrative nature.
• Should be able to identify and distinguish colors, see clearly at 20 inches or closer and 20 feet or more, observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point, judge distances and spatial relationships, and adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.

Typical Environmental Conditions

• May be exposed to moderate noise levels (i.e., warehouse equipment, light traffic).
• May be exposed to moderate to high noise levels (i.e., production equipment, forklifts, heavy traffic).
• May be exposed to humidity, intense heat and cold, fumes and toxic chemicals.

Pay Range: $20/hour;
Starting rate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.

Seniority Level

• Entry level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Location:

Oceanside, CA

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