Job Description
Job Description
Position: Equipment Operator
FSLA Status: Full-time/Non-Exempt
Location: Pooler, GA
Pay Rate: $20/hr
Scope of the Role
The Equipment Operator is responsible for assisting with overall warehouse operations including but not limited to transporting, loading, unloading, and stacking products to/from pallets, floors, or racks.
Reporting Structure
The Equipment Operator is a member of the Fulfillment Center team and reports to the Fulfillment Center Supervisor/Manager. This position also partners with cross-functional team members across the organization.
Essential Functions & Key Responsibilities
- Load, unload, and stack merchandise onto or from pallets, floor, or racks primarily utilizing Material Handling Equipment, but can also require manual movement as needed.
- Separate merchandise for shipment to warehouse location or according to management’s instructions.
- Maintain integrity of products through proper handling.
- Affix appropriate labels to pallet or carton.
- Apply shrink-wrap to pallets of merchandise.
- Transport merchandise to storage locations from receiving.
- Pick products as needed.
- Relocate product to additional locations as needed.
- Transport merchandise directly to shipping as needed.
- Use a scanner to process merchandise for accurate inventory and location tracking.
- Follow company policies and procedures and maintain a safe work environment.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Required Experience
- High school diploma or GED required.
- 1+ years’ experience required in a similar role in the warehouse environment.
- Required experience in operating a Forklift and/or pallet jack (active certification is a plus).
- Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and written.
- Ability to sufficiently read and comprehend freight instructions.
- Possess basic mathematical skills.
- Ability to safely operate pallet jack.
- Excellent attendance required; must be able to work on a regular and predictable basis or as scheduled due to changes in the business needs and/or during peak season.
- Ability to work in a warehouse environment with variable noise levels, lighting conditions
- Ability to stand on your feet frequently for long periods of time and walk the fulfillment center and around area (10–12-hour shifts may be needed per the business needs).
- Ability to work in warehouse environment with variable noise levels, lighting conditions and temperature variation.
- Ability to lift up to 75 pounds on a continual basis.