Associate, Shipping/Receiving

Owens Corning; Alabama; On-site; USD 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Owens Corning is seeking a warehouse/door-staging associate to coordinate and consolidate door stacks for shipping, using forklift to load, stage, and protect doors per customer specifications. You will communicate with upstream/downstream teams to ensure efficient loads and accurate sequencing.

The role demands strong memory, high attention to detail, and the ability to read schedules and measurements. Fast-paced environment requires initiative and safety adherence.

Qualifications

• Forklift operation and safety procedures required.
• Strong memory, planning and organizational skills needed to manage staging.
• Ability to read schedules and interpret measurements inclusive of 1/16".

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and sort orders by PO, customer and location; stage pallets and protect doors during consolidation.
• Maximize cubic footage on trucks while meeting customer specs and routes.

Skills

Forklift operation

Safety procedures

Memory and attention to detail

Planning and organization

Data interpretation

Read tape measure

Tools

Tape measure

Lift equipment knowledge

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

• Coordinate and sort orders to segregate orders by PO, customer, and customer locations. Door staging locations and process for consolidation. Stacking requirements. Stacks/down stacks pallets of doors to customer shipping quantity specs, verify doors and Jetta mark/species on the doors match the tickets, inspect paint edge quality, direct lift drivers on where to stage pallets of doors, combine/build/pyramid door stacks for each customer using SOP procedures - (use culled doors/cardboard/runners between pallets to protect doors). Send doors to repair that fail to meet quality specs. Using a lift truck retrieves and stages their own material. Communicate with upstream/downstream channels for doors shipping needs to complete loads.
• Works with little supervision to prepare and consolidate door stacks to maximize cubic footage on truck and according to customer specs, quality specs, and routes doors to appropriate destinations.

Physical Demands:

• Manually lifts/slide/flip materials or doors (max of 100 lbs.), bending, stooping, twisting, pushing, pulling, stacking doors, and standing for extended periods. Depth perception required.
• Fast paced job, constant need to recall where doors are staged for future consolidation. Separate doors by customer and load, and locate with like items within a pallet, must Be constantly thinking about how to maximize stacks of doors.

Qualifications:

• Forklift operating skills to load/unload, lift, move, place, stack raw materials and doors, navigates throughout plant, including populated and small areas, performs safety procedures, Excellent memory recall, strong planning and organizational skills, ability to comprehend and retain large amounts of data, high attention details, read/interpret schedules, read tape measure 1/16\" and work with sense of urgency
• Forklift knowledge and safety procedures, order tracking process and documents, Door staging locations and process for stack consolidation, Customer specs, proper stacking procedures, how to protect doors, quality specs, read/interpret tickets/schedules, door types/cores/species and acceptable stacking quantities, how to read a tape measure up to 1/16\", correct pallet size with doors, customer specific stacking/packing requirements