Hybrid Warehouse Associate- Forklift Operator chez Fortune Fish & Gourmet

Warehouse Associate I is responsible for performing a range of general warehouse tasks including: loading, unloading, stock, inventory, labeling, and receiving. Warehouse Associate contributes to the efficiency of the warehouse production by ensuring high safety and food handling standards are always maintained. 

Responsibilities

• Unload product from the truck, container, and stock in the designated area.
• Ensures that product is properly placed on racks, shelves, or in bins according to established practice.
• Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves, or conveys orders to packing station or shipping department and prepare for shipping.
• Ensure that the product is handled in a sanitary manner.
• Adhere to the company’s safety practices at all times.
• Marks materials with identifying information.
• Records/removes amounts of materials or items received or distributed to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Arranges products in specified sequence for processing by other workers as needed.
• Drives forklift or other motorized equipment to transport items within the plant.
• Supports in maintaining receiving and inventory records.
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education – High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience – One to two years of related experience in food production.
• Work ethic – A sense of urgency in meeting critical and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Accuracy – Demonstrated ability to accurately pack product in a timely fashion. The ability to lift 25/50/pounds regularly.
• Language – Basic English speaking and written proficiency.
• Mathematical – Ability to perform basic arithmetic tasks – adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying.
• Environmental: Willingness to work in a cold climate of 0-35 degrees
• A combination of the above will also be considered.

Physical & Mental Demands 

1. Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities. 
2. Kneeling: Bending legs at the knee to come to a rest on the knee or knees. 
3. Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine.
4. Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
5. Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
6. Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward. 
7. Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
8. Lifting: Raising objects from a lower position to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position – to – position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
9. Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palms. 
10. Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas using the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. 
11. Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. 
12. Heavy Work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
13. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
14. The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment. 
15. The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.
16. The worker is subject to environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes. 
17. The worker is subject to noise. There is sufficient noise to cause workers to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
18. The worker is subject to hazards. Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals. 

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