Receiver – Cabinet, Casework Door Material Operations; Tacoma, WA

Experienced Door Shop Machine Operator (Tacoma, WA)

Pay: $22.00 – 26.00 Per Hour

The Receiver is a receiving position responsible for accurately receiving, inspecting, documenting, labeling, staging, and system-processing cabinet, casework, millwork, hardware, lumber, and door-related material in a fast-paced production environment.

This role is heavily tied to the cabinet side of the business, where material accuracy directly impacts production flow, machine efficiency, finish quality, job completion, and customer commitments. Cabinet material is often high-volume, finish-sensitive, color-specific, size-specific, and project-specific. A missed finish, wrong slide length, incorrect pull, damaged laminate, mislabeled melamine sheet, or missing component can stop production just as quickly as a missing door or jamb.

While cabinet material is the primary focus of this role, door material remains highly relevant to the overall business. The receiver must be able to identify, receive, protect, stage, and communicate on door-related material when it flows through the facility. Even if the volume is lower than cabinet material at this location, doors remain a major business segment and must be handled with the same ownership, accuracy, and visibility.

This role requires strong judgment, fast but precise work, cross-department communication, and full ownership of material from the moment it hits the dock until it is received, labeled, located, staged, transferred, or clearly handed off.

This position requires grit, urgency, precision, communication, and accountability
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The Receiver must be able to receive and verify a broad range of cabinet and casework materials, including but not limited to:

• Laminates
• Plywood
• MDF
• Particle board
• Hardwood lumber
• Softwood lumber
• Drawer boxes
• Drawer fronts
• End panels
• Toe kicks
• Cleats
• Shelving
• Edge banding
• Drawer slides
• Pulls
• Knobs
• Brackets
• Fasteners
• Screws
• Shelf pins
• Mounting plates
• Specialty hardware
• Miscellaneous job-specific components

The expectation is not just to unload these items, but to confirm that the material received matches what was ordered, what is needed, and what production is expecting.

Cabinet material requires detailed verification because many items may look similar but are not interchangeable. The Receiver 3 must carefully verify:

• Descriptions
• Quantities
• Lengths
• Widths
• Thicknesses
• Laminate pattern
• Core type
• Edge profile
• Slide type
• Pull size
• Pull finish
• Hardware counts
• Left/right orientation when applicable
• Project or sales order reference
• Packaging condition

Small receiving mistakes can create large production problems. A wrong color, wrong thickness, missing hinge plate, incorrect slide length, or damaged laminate can cause rework, machine downtime, schedule delays, and customer-facing issues.

The Receiver must understand that laminates, melamine, plywood, MDF, and other sheet goods require careful handling and immediate protection.

Responsibilities include:

• Verifying sheet count, thickness, finish, color, and size.
• Checking that laminate patterns, colors, and manufacturer information match the purchase order or vendor paperwork.
• Confirming melamine color and surface condition before material is put away.
• Inspecting sheets for chips, cracks, warping, water exposure, broken corners, scratches, delamination, or forklift damage.
• Ensuring sheet goods are stacked safely and correctly.
• Protecting material from rain, moisture, dirt, overspray, impact, and poor handling.
• Making sure material is labeled and located correctly in the system.
• Communicating quickly when sheet goods are damaged, questionable, short, or urgently needed.

Sheet goods are a major production driver. If they are wrong, damaged, hidden, or unreceived, the cabinet shop can lose production time quickly.

Cabinet hardware requires high accuracy because many components are small, similar-looking, job-specific, and easy to miscount or misidentify.

The Receiver must verify and control:

• Slide types
• Side mount versus undermount
• Mounting plates
• Pull length
• Pull finish
• Knob style
• Bracket type
• Fas…