A leading wholesale distributor of school supplies and K-12 supplemental teaching materials to e-retailers and brick-and-mortar stores nationwide. We offer the broadest array of products in the market, with over 20,000 SKUs sourced from over 300 suppliers, ensuring that our reseller customers are able to deliver upon an “endless aisle” experience without the burden of onerous inventory costs. Backed by some of the highest service levels in the industry.

We are seeking an experienced Forklift Operator with a minimum 2–5 years’ experience. Applicants must have a High School Diploma and equivalent experience to be considered.

• Pay: $20.00 per hour
• Shift: 11:00pm - 7:30am

Full Job Description

General Summary: General warehouse duties is to assist in moving products from the main warehouse to satellite warehouse location, bin replenishments, and other duties assigned by the Warehouse Manager.

Essential Functions:

• Assist shipping and receiving, unloading trucks/containers, checking in merchandise, matching purchase orders to sales orders and distributing final product.
• Delivery of product between Educators Resource Warehouse Locations.
• Reading customer orders, work orders, and shipping orders to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed and/or shipped.
• Moving materials and product from receiving or storage areas to shipping or to other designated areas.
• Sorting and placing materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style and color or product code.
• Ensuring warehouse is accessible for employee traffic.
• Assembling customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves, or relocating orders to a holding area or shipping department.
• Marking materials with identifying information using appropriate method.
• Opening boxes, crates and/or other containers.
• Assisting in counting of physical inventory.
• May be assigned facilities maintenance duties as needed.
• Preparing items for shipment.
• Organizing warehouse and work area for orderliness at all times.
• Wearing the proper and required safety equipment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED);
• one year or more related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience:

• One or more years related experience and /or training in a warehouse environment.
• 2-5 years' Forklift experience required
• Must have valid driver’s license and a clean driving record.

Skills & Abilities: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Problem solving-the individual identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully
• Oral communication-the individual speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
• Quality management-the individual looks for ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Planning/organizing-the individual prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans.
• Adaptability-the individual adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with a frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Dependability-the individual is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction and solicits feedback to improve performance.
• Safety and security-the individual actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures, and uses equipment and materials properly.

Contact with others: Regular daily routine requires contact with other employees and management.

Supervision Received: Works under direct daily supervision of supervisors and/or management, receives goals and basic procedures for project assignments. Must handle prioritization with a variety of competing activities. Performs tasks independently with periodic supervisory review/audit. Seeks guidance to assure complete and appropriate action.

Working Conditions: Requires working in warehouse environment with possibility of periods with extreme temperatures. Must be able to stand for long periods of time at an assigned station, navigate stairs to pull parts and be able to lift up to 50lbs. Will be required to operate forklift. Frequent standing, bending, lifting and pulling.

Benefits

• 2 weeks’ vacation and 1week personal time
• BCBS Health/Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company Provided 20k Life/AD&D and LTD insurance
• 7 Paid holidays
• Health and/or Dependent care flexible spending

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.