Warehouse, Forklift Operator

Overview

2nd Shift - Monday - Friday - No Weekends! The Warehouse Night Associate works in the warehouse and picks and builds orders, loads trucks, moves inventory and operates warehouse equipment.

General Beverage Sales Co. (GB) is a business-to-business wholesale distributor of wine, distilled spirits, beer, soda, bottled water and non-alcoholic beverages. Established in 1933, GB has been family-owned ever since. We currently operate in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties as consultants to over 11,000 licensed retail business customers helping them to profitably select, promote, merchandise, and sell consumer products in the beverage category.

We proudly employ 900 employees across the State of Wisconsin. Our mission is to be the trusted distributor partner of our suppliers and customers in order to advance our collective beverage business and support the growth of our family of employees. The Sales Relief role is a diverse position which will have responsibility for filling in as a sales relief and performing all the functions of the sales team.

The primary responsibility is to pick orders and load trucks with required products, safely, accurately, and efficiently and includes the use of warehouse equipment such as forklifts.

Monday - Friday - 10:00 a.m. to close - No weekends!

GB has exceptional benefits for our full-time employees, such as health, dental, vision, life, disability along with FSA and HSA options. We also offer a 401(k) plan with company match, profit sharing, and paid vacation and sick time plus paid holidays. As well as opportunities for advancement.

• Report for work on time and appropriately dressed.
• Load and unload route delivery trucks.
• Check route trucks in and out.
• Receive and ship products, equipment, merchandise, and supplies.
• Prepare all required reports promptly.
• Operate company equipment safely and according to company and OSHA guidelines.
• Adhere to supplier and company quality and freshness standards in inventory and loading practices.
• Maintain a clean warehouse environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• Friendly and professional communication skills with ability to work collaboratively with internal and external teams and convey issues proactively.
• Dependable worker, arriving on time and ready to work.
• Solid attention to detail to ensure assignments are completed in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner while maintaining all safety standards.
• Strong willingness to learn, develop and grow skill set.
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and committed to best-in-class service.
• Acts with honesty and transparency and treats others with respect, dignity and fairness.
• Builds rapport with colleagues and retailers, and is welcoming to all.
• Able to reach, twist and bend.
• Able to lift up to 175 lbs. multiple times a day.
• Able to work with and be certified with forklifts, order pickers and other warehouse equipment.
• Can read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide at high school equivalency level.
• Proficient using a computer or tablet and able to learn job specific programs.
• Valid driver’s license preferred; government issued .
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen and lift test.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Load and unload route delivery trucks.
• Check route trucks in and out.
• Receive and ship products, equipment, merchandise, and supplies.
• Prepare all required reports promptly.
• Operate company equipment safely and according to company and OSHA guidelines.
• Adhere to supplier and company quality and freshness standards in inventory and loading practices.
• Maintain a clean warehouse environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Salary: $19.00/hr