Warehouse Associate

Summary of Position:

Fortune Fish & Gourmet is a highly successful seafood processor and specialty food distributor based in Chicago. The company serves a multitude of clients within the seafood industry with a focus on high quality and outstanding service.

This is an exciting time to join our rapidly growing business! As an industry leader, we’re growing relationships through our quality products and services. We are continually looking for outstanding talent to join our extraordinary group of employees.

The Warehouse Associate is responsible for performing a range of general warehouse tasks including, loading, unloading, stock, inventory, picking customer orders, labeling, and receiving. The Warehouse Associate contributes to the efficiency of the warehouse production by ensuring high safety and sanitation standards are maintained at all times.

Responsibilities:

• Unload product from truck, container, and stock them 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 product is handled in a sanitary manner.
• Marks materials with identifying information.
• Records amounts of materials or items received or distributed.
• Arranges product 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 inventory records.
• Adhere to the company’s safety practices at all times.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education – High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience – Must have at least two years of related experience in food production/warehouse. Seafood experience is a plus.
• Work ethic – A sense of urgency in meeting critical and time sensitive deadlines.
• Accuracy – Demonstrated ability to accurately pack product in a timely fashion.
• 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 35º and or below 0º. COLD STORAGE
• Physical requirements – Must be able to lift 49 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation and stand/walk for up to 8 hours per shift. Able to frequently push, pull, bend, squat, and reach.
• Attendance – must adhere to schedule shift time.
• Shifts availability: able to work a day shift for couple of weeks for training purposes if moving into the swing shift or overnight shift.
• A combination of the above will also be considered.

• $18/hourly starting pay and a $1.00 differential for the overnight shift.

Fortune Fish & Gourmet is an equal opportunity employer.