Position Overview:
Unique Industrial Products is seeking a reliable and detail-oriented Warehouse Helper with forklift experience to join our team. In this role, you will play a critical part in our daily logistics by managing inventory flow, preparing customer orders, and maintaining a safe, organized warehouse environment.
This position offers dynamic daily variety. Warehouse helpers frequently rotate between different warehouse job functions to support our shipping, receiving, quality control, and facility maintenance needs.
Job Requirements & Qualifications:
- Forklift Experience: Must have proven experience operating a forklift safely and efficiently in a warehouse environment.
- Experience: Previous experience in a warehouse, logistics, or fulfillment environment is preferred.
- Skills: Ability to read and interpret orders, requisitions, and shipping documents.
- Tech Literacy: Basic computer comfort to record inventory data in computer programs.
- Physical Capabilities: Ability to stand, walk, bend, and lift heavy items/crates throughout the shift.
- Adaptability: Flexibility to rotate between different tasks and job functions daily based on plant needs.
- Safety Mindset: Commitment to maintaining a clean, organized, and hazard-free workspace.
Essential Responsibilities:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Job duties may include any of the following and are subject to change based on business needs:
- Material Handling & Forklift Operation: Move materials, pallets, and large items safely from receiving or storage areas to shipping docks or other designated zones using a forklift or standard material handling equipment.
- Shipping & Receiving Support: Assist with unloading trucks, checking in merchandise, matching purchase orders to sales orders, and distributing documents to sales associates for prompt processing.
- Order Processing: Read customer orders, work orders, shipping orders, or requisitions to accurately determine which items need to be moved, gathered, distributed, or shipped.
- Inventory Organization: Sort and place materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to a predetermined sequence (such as size, type, style, color, or product code).
- Fulfillment & Distribution: File requisitions, work orders, or material requests, and distribute items to shipping areas or designated route driver storage spaces.
- Order Assembly: Assemble customer orders from stock, place orders securely on pallets or shelves, or relocate completed orders to holding and shipping departments.
- Product Identification: Mark materials with required identifying information using the appropriate company methods.
- Container Management: Safely open bales, crates, and other incoming containers.
- Data Entry: Record the exact amounts of materials or items received or distributed using our designated computer programs.
- Inventory Control: Assist the team in conducting regular physical inventory counts.
- Quality Assurance: Assist in Quality Control areas by weighing and counting items for distribution within the plant to ensure strict conformance to company standards.
- Safety & Maintenance: Ensure the warehouse remains clean, accessible, and safe for salespeople and customer traffic; perform assigned facility maintenance duties as needed.