Warehouse Operator I

Job Title:

Warehouse Operator I

Location:

Rockville, MD

Reports To:

Warehouse Manager

Salary:

Base Rate

Benefits:

100% 401K match up to 4%, 3-tier medical insurance, 2-tier dental insurance, vision insurance, employer paid life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity & accident insurance, $3,000 tuition reimbursement, PTO.

Purpose:

Perform manual labor activities in the warehouse under the guidance of the warehouse manager.

General Description:

• Use forklift to load, unload, move and stack products.
• Receives, unpacks, packs, and ships materials and products.
• Counts and checks items and prepares reports as necessary.
• Operates forklift or similar material handling equipment.
• Unloads inbound shipments from trailers and loads outbound shipments on trailers.
• Loads outbound shipments on local delivery trucks according to delivery route or on customers’ trucks.
• Stacks and takes down pallets in storage areas.
• Moves, stores, organizes and reorganizes a variety of material and products as directed.
• Uses hands, hand truck or similar non-powered equipment to move materials.
• Reports inventory discrepancies, stocks shortages, and incomplete orders.
• Prepares, packs, and labels products for shipment using protective wrapping, boxes, pallets, and crates.
• Identifies fragile material or poorly packaged material and may construct non-standard packing or reinforcing to ensure products protection from damage.
• Verifies and double checks picked product against packing slip to ensure item and quantity accuracy and inclusion of all items.
• Applies shipping labels, bills-of-lading, packing lists.
• Maintains and organizes warehouse as directed
• Participate and assist in the physical counts of inventory as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Requires at least 3 months of relevant experience.
• Forklift operation certification preferred.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Basic PC skills for inputting and processing shipments and entering pulled order data into inventory/order processing system.
• Must adhere to good safety practices and rules, and exhibit common sense.
• Requires ability to read and write English at a basic level.
• Experience with various types of equipment