Air Logistics Warehouse Associate

Kuehne+Nagel; Bensenville (IL); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading logistics company as an Air Logistics Warehouse Associate in Bensenville. You will handle various warehouse tasks, including operating material handling equipment to ensure efficient inventory management and support vital deliveries. This role offers a rewarding experience within a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package

401k retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience in warehouse environment.
• 1 year of experience operating material handling equipment.

Responsibilities

• Move materials within the warehouse.
• Load/unload materials using forklifts.
• Maintain a clean warehouse environment.

Skills

Material Handling

Basic Math Skills

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It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.



Would you like to launch your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our Chicago site is looking for a new Warehouse Associate/Forklift operator to join our Air Logistics team.

Reporting to the Air Logistics Warehouse Manager you will be responsible for moving materials within the warehouse and the loading/unloading of materials onto or from vehicles utilizing a forklift, reach truck, order picker or other heavy material handling equipment. You will also be responsible for receiving, storing, picking, packing, verification, shipping/manifesting and other various duties as assigned to ensure the full and efficient operation of the Distribution Center.

How you create impact

• Use material handling (MH) equipment to unload incoming materials from trailers.
• Verify and receive materials into inventory.
• Marks and inventories packages for storage or transit.
• May also include palletizing and shrink-wrap.
• May be required to stack pallets and repeatedly lift up to 50 pounds.
• Use MH Equipment to move and store materials within the warehouse.
• Use MH Equipment to pick, verify and pack orders according to standard practice.
• Use MH Equipment or other designated means to load goods into trailers or other designated transport vehicles for distribution.
• Works from pick sheet to pull product or supplies.
• Check orders against pull sheets.
• Dangerous Goods”: when receiving dangerous goods, the necessary procedures must be followed, and these shipments must be stored in the designated section of the warehouse. If/when applicable, ‘bonded’ cargo must be processed and handled accordingly, based on existing guidelines for this type of shipment.
• Maintain warehouse clean and free of debris at all times.
• Adhere to local, State, and Federal regulations inclusive, but not limited, to OSHA, DOT, EPA and other government agencies. Certification required handling any hazardous material(s).
• May be required to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Overtime as needed
  
  

What we would like you to bring

• 1 year of experience operating material handling equipment
• 1 year of experience prior experience in warehouse or manufacturing environment
• Proven basic math skills at the high school level
• Must have the ability to establish priorities and accomplish multiple tasks with minimal supervision
• Must have the ability to work onsite 5 days a week
  
  

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The hourly wage range for this position is between $20 and $25. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment. Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Distribution, Supply Chain, and Customer Service

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

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