Warehouse Associate

Connecting People, Plants & Planet to Create Healing

Gaia Herbs takes pride in fostering a collaborative workplace where inspired sessions are the norm, and pitching in to support team success is required. We actively seek out team players who value mission-driven work and love bringing purpose to what we do every day.

Gaia Herbs is growing, and as the leading Herbal Supplement company, we feel an ever-increasing responsibility to contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable economy. This is why our status as a Certified B Corporation is so important as we continue building exceptional teams who create great products, all while being great stewards of our farm and our planet.

We would love to be your next GREAT employer!

Our Perks & Benefits Offered:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance starts the 1st day of the following month you’re hired.
• Wellness discounts on health insurance
• Health savings account
• PTO, sick leave, paid holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Voting time off
• 401(k) - 100% match up to 3%
• Annual Incentive Plan (Bonus)
• Equity Shares
• Recognition programs
• Gaia product discounts and partnering company discounts with Thrive, Prana, Dr. Bronner’s
• Gaia swag and Birthday honey from the Gaian bees
• Healthy lunches cooked by our company chef using Gaia’s herbs, veggies and local organic meats.
• Free farmer’s market during season from Gaia’s own 350-acre farm.

Starting pay is $18.00 per hour. Shift Differential Pay: 2nd shift is an additional $2/hr.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Job Level 1 – Warehouse Associate

• Adhere to all Gaia safety and quality policies.
• Load, unload, and transport products using various powered industrial trucks.
• Receive, ship, and transfer inventory records via Gaia WMS.
• Pull and prepare products for production shop orders.
• Pack and ship small parcel shipments.
• Conduct inventory cycle counts.
• Perform 5S/cleaning tasks as required.

Warehouse Associate will perform a variety of tasks related to the internal supply chain/warehousing/fulfillment operations at Gaia Herbs.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED is Required.
• 1 year Warehouse/Logistics experience preferred.
• 1 year Powered Industrial Truck experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Basic computer skills.
• Proficient in math. (Including decimals and fractions)
• Communication skills.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Proficient or a willingness to be trained in the operation of multiple types of powered industrial trucks.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of a warehouse and its equipment, operations and scales.
• Ability to come in early and or stay later than scheduled shift to accommodate the daily company needs.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions and write short documentation and correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk; type, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to see from a distance and up close. Employees are occasionally asked to move or lift inventory weighing upwards of fifty (50) pounds.

Work Environment

The employee in this position primarily works in a warehouse environment, where they would be exposed to moving mechanical parts, weather, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and moderate noise.

The above statements are meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Gaia Herbs, Inc., where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender or gender identity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. All employees and applicants will be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, in accordance with, and as defined by federal, state and local non-discrimination laws.