Warehouse Worker Job Description
Warehouse Worker Duties & Responsibilities
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Education for Warehouse Worker
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Warehouse Worker Examples
Warehouse Worker Job Description
- Meet all productivity standards in a timely manner
- Receives customer orders
- The Warehouse Worker will perform all warehouse functions pertaining to department area
- Picks orders as assigned rapidly, efficiently, and accurately
- Receives incoming product as assigned rapidly, efficiently, and accurately
- Knowledgeable with all applicable warehouse operational and quality procedures
- Knowledgeable with all safety procedures and practices safe operation at all times
- Assists in maintaining a neat and orderly warehouse
- Consistently achieves or exceeds warehouse operational pick/pack/ship/receive volume and quality standards
- Handles stock in a careful and safe manner
- Warehouse experience is preferred, but not required
- Lift heavy objects (up to 60 – 75 pounds) with or without reasonable accommodations for the entire shift
- Overtime will be required based on business needs
- Must be able to physically and safely deliver products on roof
- Minimum of 1 year of general factory, warehouse, inventory, or industrial experience
- Must be able to lift up to 60lbs and work on your feet for an extended period of time
Warehouse Worker Job Description
- Package material for shipment according to shipping requirements and/or customer specified instruction
- Performs equipment safety review
- Anticipate and prevent accidents
- Pay attention to environment and take the responsabilty to pick up any items out of place
- Loading and Unloading, working in the assembly line
- High Safety Orientation
- Accurately handles all related paperwork or documents, recording or verifying pertinent information such as quantity picked, value, charges, destination, dimensions
- Completes international packing lists by unit and by part number
- Audits shipments prior to loading the truck verifying the load against the customer order
- Unloading tires and other products while verifying accuracy
- Direct experience in item and line picking preferred
- Requires ability to read numbers and text accurately, ability to use a material control system and computer terminal, and learn to operate material moving equipment including forklifts and related machinery
- Able to operate motorized vehicles (fork trucks, cherry pickers, easy-go carts )
- Familiarity with a computer keyboard
- Knowledge of cGMP warehouse operations and familiar with various warehousing concepts
- Report to and receive general technical and administrative guidance from Warehouse supervisor
Warehouse Worker Job Description
- Accurately picking and loading product on outgoing trucks
- Pulling work order for the production floor
- Place material on pallets and package material to be transported
- Transport material
- Control, label, and organize material in warehouse
- Receiving and distribution of merchandise, warehouse stocking, filling of orders for store replenishment
- Accurate picking and packing of product using Voice Directed Picking (VDP) to fill customer orders
- Replenishment of product in loose pick locations
- Quality control to ensure accuracy of customer orders
- Picking, packing and processing of priority/rush customer orders.Unloading cases from conveyor lines and sorting by dock locations (based on carrier and destination)
- Arrange for the removal of Waste from the packaging Line(s)
- Stage inventory materials for production use
- Perform daily housekeeping in assigned areas
- Comply with all safety related material handing procedures and equipment including fork-lift trucks and power pallet jacks
- Promote teamwork and open communication
- Assist in developing productivity improvement plans using Industrial excellence methodologies
Warehouse Worker Job Description
- Loading trucks both by hand and using equipment
- Filling void in cartons
- Sorting cases for international shipment
- Put away all cartons and palletized product received on a daily basis
- Maintain accuracy of bulk locations by performing daily cycle counts of all pallets received the previous day
- Assembly of kits and samples according to guidelines
- Sorting materials for combo/shrink pack orders running them through a shrink-wrap machine
- Stamping textbooks to complete donations
- Opening boxes and loading the conveyor lines with returned product
- Keying returns into IMDS (warehouse management system) to ensure accurate and timely return to stock and credits to customers
- Ability to read and comprehend pick tickets, purchase orders, receiving slips, route slips and instructions
- Must be able to do basic arithmetic
- Able to work independently, without much supervision
- Knowledge of manufacturing ERP system Axapta is a plus
- Must have experience on stand up order pickers
- Familiarity with both LTL and UPS shipping
Warehouse Worker Job Description
- Pulling and preparing product for Rework, ensuring that the exact number and type of product is pulled and ready to repair
- Sorting, wrapping, packing, and repacking as needed
- Follow, without exception all work instructions and safety rules in all activities performed
- Carry out internal transfers of products (from production, receiving), considering the FIFO (First In/ First Out) methodology
- Store items according to established procedures, maintaining proper storage procedures and rotating stock appropriately, ensuring compliance with safety and Company procedures
- Notify the supervisor of any non-conforming products received from production or other sites
- Participate, under supervision, in the freight management
- Ensure the good condition of trucks/containers/ tanks, to guarantee that products are not damaged
- Prepares orders by processing requests in the pick list, accurately and timely, pulling products, preparing packages for shipping and placing orders in delivery area, according to established procedures and guaranteeing compliance with customers’ requests
- Maneuvers powered industrial truck to various locations throughout the Distribution Center
- Experience operating material handling equipment strongly preferred
- Performance motivated
- Computer skills/Excel recommended
- Must provide proof of eligibility to work in United States
- Knowledge of manufacturing ERP system
- Standing while operating material handling equipment for most of the shift