Lead Warehouse Associate

Job Description:

Essential Duties/Responsibilities*:

• Monitoring/managing the warehouse staff to keep busy, pull items, arrange order/importance of what to pull, cross train, manage organization, and help manage the cleanliness of the warehouse

• Checking material extras and auditing occasional packages to make sure things are correct

• Checking the accuracy of deliveries, managing the deliveries getting unloaded, whether it is a crew member or supervisor themselves

• Forklift work, forklift maintenance (in terms of battery charge, water charge, safety measures)

• Answering questions from warehouse crew on scanning issues, adjustment issues, approving returns

* Duties may vary by location.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1+ year prior Warehouse experience

• Ability to operate a forklift or pallet jack

• Valid Driver’s license

• High school diploma or GED

• Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both verbally and in writing

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Valid driver's license required

• Ability to work overtime with little notice; weekend hours may occasionally be required.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced warehouse environment

• Proactive mindset

• Must be able to work independently and with a team

• Organizational skills and attention to detail

• Willingness to learn and be a part of a team

• Positive attitude and a team player

• Ability to build positive relationships with customers, both internal and external

• Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization.

• Safety mindset and acceptance of a safety culture

• Related experience may be substituted for education

Working Conditions:

• Warehouse environment

• Travel by vehicle to and from work locations

• Comfortable working both indoors and outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions (including heat, rain, cold and wind) while wearing appropriate PPE

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to drive and operate a motorized passenger vehicle or forklift

• Must be able to lift/move up to 50 pounds frequently

• Frequently performs tasks requiring climbing, bending at the waist, crawling, kneeling, crouching

• Must be able to work at heights, climb ladders and stairways, and occasionally work on platforms/scaffolding (using the appropriate fall protection requirements)

• Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) including but not limited to hard hat, safety glasses, ear plugs, masks/respirators, reflective safety vests, gloves and safety toe, construction-grade work boots

• Must be able to adhere to long periods of standing, walking or sitting

• Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and/or other sounds to operate phones or other equipment safely.

• With natural or corrected vision, able to see and focus for close, distance, peripheral vision with normal depth perception

• Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to others 

• Ability to enter text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard or 10-key numeric keypad

• Must be able to use arms and hands to reach overhead, signal, grab, hold, lift, turn, push and pull objects and tools

Airtron is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.