Dock Associate

About the Role

This position involves the preparation work necessary for delivery of merchandise as well as basic warehouse functions. The position will occasionally require the employee to work overtime hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Unwraps and assembles furniture at the assigned dock.
• Cleans and inspects merchandise for errors and defects.
• Touch-up merchandise as needed.
• Re-wraps merchandise for delivery.
• Stages merchandise for delivery truck loading.
• Assist with Customer Pick-ups (CPUs).
• Unload Receiving inventory containers and trucks.
• Completes other duties as assigned by warehouse leadership team.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Qualifications

• Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.