Warehouse - Unloader/Loader 1st Shift

LOADER/UNLOADER

Employment Type: Full Time

Supervisor: Warehouse Manager

Location: Dubuque Distribution Center

Job Description

To load and unload freight on company trucks with a radio frequency monitor (RF) in a timely, consistent manner.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or GED

• Experience: None

Job Duties

• Load And Unload Trucks
  • Using pallet jacks, fork lifts, etc. load/unload merchandise 
• Build Pallets
  • Pack merchandise nearly on pallets
  • Ensure that heavy items are lowest on pallet
  • Shrink wrap pallets tightly
  • Label pallets with store number and bar code
  • Move pallets using electric or hand pallet jack to staging area
• Sorting and Stacking Pallets
• Clean Up
  • Sweep floor
  • Move pallets 
• Any other duties as assigned by management
  • Help in other areas of warehouse when needed
  • Any other tasks as assigned by management

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• ADMINISTRATIVE:  Checking work, Planning, Record-keeping, reporting

• CLERICAL:  Ten-key, typing

• COMPUTING:  Date entry

• MATHEMATICAL:  Calculating, Problem solving, Projections, Reasoning

• MECHANICAL:  Constructing, Maintenance, Repairing

• READING:  Basic, Correspondence

• WRITING:  Basic

• KNOWLEDGE LEVEL:  Basic, Technical, Advanced

Benefits

Full Time eligible for:

• Competitive match on 401K

• Health, dental, vision, flexible spending account
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• PTO, holiday, and birthday-off pay
• Associate discount and many other benefits

Physical Demands

Frequent physical demands include lifting up to 50 lbs., walking, standing, bending, twisting, reaching, pushing, pulling, squatting, kneeling, dexterity and light grasping.  Occasional physical demands include lifting up to 75 lbs. and climbing stairs.  The associate is required to talk and hear.  Must be able to work required shifts and maintain attendance standards.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision adequate for the incumbent to perform the responsibilities and functions of the job efficiently.  The associate must have the manual dexterity to manually operate and use a computer, and a RF handheld scanner.

Work Environment and Working Conditions

Work will normally be performed inside of a warehouse facility.  Temperatures can vary from 32 degrees to 100 degrees.  The work environment is usually fast paced with regular deadlines.  Extreme noise and vibrations may occasionally be experienced.  Associates may be subjected to hazards such as burns, cuts, strains, electrical, explosive, and mechanical.  Due to the nature of the work, associates may be exposed to atmospheric conditions such as dust fumes, odors, and poor ventilation. For the safety of our associates, all associates are required to wear protective steel toed shoes as well as other protective devices that management deems appropriate. 

Theisen’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status as a veteran, or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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Benefits:

Full time associates: We offer Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance as well as Short term and Long term Disability, and a flexible spending account to our Full Time associates. Theisen’s also offers a competitive match on a 401(k) account through American Trust. Benefits also include paid time off, holiday pay, birthday off paid, associate discounts, and many other benefits. 

Part time associates: Theisen’s offers a competitive match on a 401(k) account through American Trust. Benefits also include paid time off, holiday pay, birthday off paid, associate discounts, and many other benefits. 

Hours of Operation:
   Corporate Office (Core Hours) - 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Mon-Fri.

 Distribution Center - 6:00 AM - 3:30 PM (1st Shift) and 3:30 PM - 2:00 AM (2nd Shift). 

Store Locations - Vary by location, but can range from 8:00 AM-8:00 PM Mon-Sat and 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Sun.