Warehouse Operator I

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Located in Jacksonville, FL

Salary: 20.00

Summary / Primary Role: 

The position of Warehouse Operator I will have primary responsibility to efficiently sort, handle, and load freight into and unload it from over the road equipment, containers, city trailers, and/or straight trucks. This position routinely uses pallet jacks and forklifts in the loading and unloading of freight including shipments of Hazardous Materials freight.

 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

(Management may amend or assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time)

 

• Knowledge of safe lifting technique to load and unload cargo, including heavy, bulky and or cumbersome freight

·        Ability to secure or re-secure cargo by blocking, bracing, and other methods.

·        Operating forklifts, hand trucks, pallet jacks, to move, load, arrange, rearrange, and unload freight.

·        Ability to understand and carry out instructions given orally or in writing, including those on manifests and other shipping documents.

·        Ability to perform work required in a timely manner and maintain adequate production to meet service schedules and customer commitments.

·        Ability to handle customers’ freight safely and efficiently, while communicating tactfully and diplomatically with those individuals with who the employee will be in contact as a company representative.

·        Read, write, comprehend English.

·        Possess math skills.

·        Able to complete task efficiently and timely.

·        Demonstrate ability to maintain good attendance.

·        Safe work record.

·        All other duties and projects as assigned.

 

Qualifications and Key Skills:

(The following are representative of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, or ability required for this position)

 

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Minimum of six months related experience is required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
  
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
  • Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
  • Hazardous Material – Company Certified

  ·        Fork Lift – Company Certified

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