Job Description
JOIN OUR WAREHOUSE TEAM!
Ready to build a career with a company that’s leading the foodservice industry?
We help you make it!
Work Schedule: Sunday-Thursday. 5:30pm- until complete.
8-12 hr. shifts.
Friday work based on business need during Peak season (May - Sept.)
The FIRST WEEK of new hire training is conducted during day shift (8 AM start time).
Start at $22.28 / hour.
Eligible for Performance Pay incentives after 2-week training completed
Weekly Pay!
New hires eligible for retention bonus, up to $5,000!
Benefits Start Day 1 medical, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, strong safety culture, and much more! To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.
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US Foods is one of the largest food distributors with a culture and a history of promoting from within, excellent training programs and a continuous improvement focus.
Main Ingredients of the Job:
- Safely and accurately select customer orders. Build and wrap pallets to meet weekly standards for productivity and accuracy.
- Perform pre-shift equipment checks and safely operate an electric pallet.
- Carefully move products from racks to pallets directed by order selecting software and equipment.
- Validate that the correct product has been selected and is damage-free.
- Efficiently deliver products to the correct dock area and shrink-wrap palletized orders.
- Team up to clear aisles of debris, stacks empty pallets from slots in aisle and return pallet jacks to charging area.
Physical Requirements:
- Comfortable working in a multi-temperature environment ranging from -5 degrees to over 100 degrees required.
- Ability to lift/carry/push/pull 20 to 80+ lbs. of product repetitively; moving 1,000+ cases of product during each shift required.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Must be able to read and communicate in the English language such as to attend trainings, hold conversations, receive safety and job-related coaching, read labels, and enter information on reports if needed.
- Able to work 8+ hour night shifts, typically Sunday – Thursday. At times, weekends and holidays will be required.
- Recent experience (within past 6 months) in high endurance or highly physical activity or role preferred e.g., lifting/transferring patients, sports/fitness, farming, construction work, etc.
- Experience selecting large-scale orders in a warehouse or distribution center environment preferred.
- Experience operating a motorized pallet jack or similar equipment preferred.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Norwich, Connecticut |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Salary | $22.28 |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
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Skills
- Career Counselingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Distribution Servicesunmatched
- Distribution Warehousingunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Equipment Selectionunmatched
- Farmingunmatched
- Fitnessunmatched
- Insuranceunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Pallet Jackunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Sportsunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
About Company
As one of America's top 10 largest private companies, we offer talented professionals outstanding opportunities for personal and professional development. We maintain a strong focus on growth in a high-performance environment.
That means your work will be challenging and rewarding. We conduct business in a highly ethical manner and maintain an unwavering commitment to operational excellence, safety and environmental responsibility.
As important, we encourage collaboration and value each member of our diverse and talented team.
US Foods is one of America's leading foodservice distributors to restaurants, healthcare and hospitality facilities, government operations and educational institutions.
We offer more than 350,000 national brand products and our own high-quality private label items ranging from meats to produce to frozen foods.
US Foods is based in Rosemont, Ill., and proudly employs about 25,000 associates in more than 60 locations.
The company is owned by funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
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