What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2nd Shift Distribution Center Associate position at Acorn Distributors?
Picker/Loader
Join Acorn Distributors, a multi-million dollar distributor of janitorial and foodservice products. We provide expert solutions to the following industries: Education, Healthcare, Government, Lodging, Commercial, Property Management, Restaurants and Catering.
Job Description:
Pick, pack and load product from the distribution center to delivery trucks, manually or with forklifts, dollies, or hand trucks. Work second shift hours which include varying end times.
Work Hours: 5:00pm Start Time
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Read customer order, work order, or shipping order to determine items to be picked and loaded for customer
- Assemble customer orders from stock and place orders on pallets to be loaded on delivery trucks
- Load product on trucks as required in predetermined order
- Ensure product is not damaged and is loaded in a manner that allows for ease in sorting and selecting upon delivery
- Perform equipment inspections and complete log sheets at the beginning of every shift
- Clean distribution center and plug all necessary equipment into charging stations at the end of every shift
- Follow OSHA and safety standards, report violations to direct supervisor (DC Supervisor - 2nd Shift)
- Other duties, as required
*Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time.*
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Must be able to communicate and comprehend both written and oral information
- Job requires employees to be able to stand for prolonged periods of time
- Competence in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to operate necessary equipment (forklift, stock picker, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, carts)
- Must be certified by Acorn Distributors on all equipment as required OSHA within 90 days
Education/Work Experience:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- A minimum of six (6) months to one (1) year of experience in a distribution center
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Repetitive, physically demanding work
- Regularly required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, and use hands to handle or feel, and sort and load
- Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk and hear
- Frequently required to lift and/or move excessive weight (50 pounds or more)
- Occasionally required to read a computer monitor, communicate on the telephone, write for short periods of time, and sort and file
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus
- Work is performed in a secured distribution center environment with moderate to high level noise
- The employee may occasionally be exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions, and environment temperature may fluctuate according to season
- Can be stressful and may have stringent deadlines to meet – employees are expected to maintain certain levels of productivity and accuracy
- Work second shift hours
Equipment Used:
- Forklift, stock picker, pallet jack, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, and carts
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