Warehouse Associate
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** Warehouse Associate**

**Job Category****:** Warehouse Associates **Requisition Number****:** WAREH003631 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**Essential Functions of the Role:**

* **Material Handling (Picking and Palletizing)**

+ Prepare work space as needed

+ Be able to work in temperatures between 30-35 degrees

+ Set up and move RPCs as needed

+ Responsible for accurately and properly picking/putting product in trays. Ensuring that RPCs are packed in an organized fashion to maximize quantity of units per RPC

+ Properly tag and load trucks

+ Ability to stand, bend, turn, twist, reach, pull and push

+ Breakdown pallets and boxes as needed

+ Unloading (AM) and Loading (PM) Trucks

- Unload product from trucks, staging it for picking.

- Take the temperatures of all inbound products, record all temperatures, document all product that is out of spec and report.

- In the evenings, load trucks as directed. Communicate effectively with distribution team as needed.

- Record all temperatures as product is loaded onto the truck, and document all product that is out of spec and report.

* **Forklift and Pallet Jack Use (certified individuals only)**

+ Ensure that the forklift is in good working order and can be operated safely

+ Move product throughout the warehouse for storage, staging and loading

* **Safety and Food Quality Compliance**

+ Complete required safety training on monthly basis

+ Use all equipment necessary for completion of your role in a safe and effective manner

+ Follow all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Best Practices; work environment must be kept clean

+ Ensure food temperature compliance, by checking temperatures as required by standard work, and immediately notifying leadership of issues

+ Successfully complete the mandatory E. A. Sween Quarterly Safety Training sessions for the purpose of complying with both OSHA regulations and EA Sween policy.

+ Complete HAACP training as necessary

* **Continuous Improvement**

+ Control and watch for material waste; look for ways to optimize processes

+ Notify Supervisors immediately if problems arise with equipment.

+ Lean in by contributing to process improvements

**Required Qualifications:**

* 18 years of age

* Good understanding of basic math skills

* Must be able to read and speak basic English

* Ability to pass applicable criminal background checks and drug screens.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

* Previous work in a warehouse - fast paced environment

* Previous forklift experience

* Previous picking experience

Pay: $17.00 hourly

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**Enthusiastic****:** Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

**Team Player****:** Works well as a member of a group

**Detail Oriented****:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)