Warehouse Worker

• Title: Warehouse Picker/Packer
• Contract: 6+ Months (with potential to convert into Perm.)
• Schedule: (08:00:AM - 06:00:PM); Mon - Fri
• Location: Knoxville, TN 37917
• PR: $17 per hour on W2

Ability to perform manual labor. Lifting up to 50 lbs per box and moving 300 boxes daily.

Job Summary/Work Schedule:

Normal Work Schedule: 5 days a week, 9 hours a day including a 30-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks.

Description of position and job requirements:
Employees process orders and move boxes of files, books, binders, backup tapes, and other materials. The work is very physical requiring the manual lifting, carrying, and moving/arranging of boxes while standing, stooping, crawling, kneeling, and twisting. Employees must be able to lift and carry boxes ranging in weight from 10-100lbs on a regular basis, without assistance. Employees must be able to load and safely operate hand trucks and pallet jacks while walking on uneven and concrete surfaces.

Essential Functions:

• Walk, stand, kneel, squat, stoop and bend for extended periods of time
• Work without assistance in order to grip, lift, push, pull, and carry boxes including up and down inclines, stairs, and over changes in walking surface/elevation
• Read and write English
• Lift and move boxes, read labels, and process incoming and outgoing orders.
• Use the proprietary computer system to track orders and determine the location of boxes
• Operate hand-held scanner
• Climb and balance on ladders
• Lift and carry boxes weighing up to 100 lbs. without assistance for prolonged periods
• Employee must be able to load, operate, and move hand carts, pallet jacks, and various other material handling aids
• Load and shrink-wrap pallets at ground level, or on carts
• Load boxes onto pallets and load pallets onto trucks manually and with material handling aids

Position Comments: Steel-toed shoes required, Solid color t-shirt no logos. repetitive lifting up to 60 lbs

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: $17.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Payment frequency:

• Paid weekly

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Are you comfortable consistently lifting 75 lbs boxes daily?

Experience:

• Warehouse experience: 1 year (Required)
• Load & unload: 1 year (Preferred)
• Heavy lifting: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person