First Shift – Distribution Center Associate

Acorn Distributors Inc; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn Distributors Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, is seeking warehouse staff for a Monday–Friday 6:00am–3:00pm shift, focusing on receiving, put-away, picking, and loading for internal and external customers.

The role requires operating equipment like forklifts and RF scanners, ensuring accuracy of paperwork, and maintaining safety standards throughout the distribution center operations.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 6 months to 1 year distribution center experience.
• Ability to operate forklift and other material-handling equipment.
• Must be able to communicate and comprehend information.

Responsibilities

• Receiving and put away of inbound product; duties include picking, staging, checking, and loading orders.
• Unload inbound trucks and verify with paperwork and RF scanner.
• Read orders with scanner and pick items.
• Assemble customer orders using order pickers and forklifts.
• Secure and label deliveries, ensure product is not damaged.
• Operate RF scanner and maintain equipment safety.
• Follow OSHA safety standards.
• Duties as required.

Skills

Receiving

Put-away

RF Scanner

Forklift operation

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

Forklift

Stock picker

Pallet jack

Job description

Job Description:

Duties focused on the receiving and put away of inbound product primarily; along with the picking, checking, and loading of product orders for the Distribution Center’s internal and external customers.

Monday - Friday 6:00am - 3:00pm

Essential Functions include, but not limited to the following:

• Receiving/Put away, Picking/Staging, Checking/Quality Control, and/or Loading orders:
• Unloading inbound product trucks, checking in compared with paperwork and RF scanner, and sorting accordingly (noting variances) before physically putting away items into proper bin locations
• Read orders and use scanner to be directed to items to be picked and loaded for customer
• Assemble customer orders from stock while operating order pickers and/or forklifts to place orders on pallets to be loaded on delivery trucks, sometimes manually counting the amounts needed
• Closely monitor the items’ unit of measure details while handling them before loading
• Load product on trucks as required in predetermined order using pallet jacks and forklifts
• Maintain that paperwork correctly remains with each order and final delivery labels are applied accurately
• Ensure product is not damaged and is loaded in a manner that allows for ease in sorting and selecting upon delivery, while also securing with shrink-wrap and ratchet straps as needed.
• Operating an RF scanner for item barcodes for all orders being picked and checked
• Safely operating material handling equipment such as: order pickers, forklifts, pallet jacks, hand carts, etc. that includes plugging and unplugging them to maintain charge as needed based on use levels
• Properly handling products to protect their value, and complete aisle clean-up as needed each shift
• Follow OSHA and safety standards, report violations to direct supervisor
• Other duties, as required

Physical Demands

• Job requires employees to be able to stand for prolonged periods of time
• Repetitive, physically demanding work and regularly required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel, and sort and load
• Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk and hear
• Frequently required to lift and/or move excessive weight (50 pounds or more)
• Required to use and read computer and scanner screens, communicate required reporting
• Expected to maintain certain levels of productivity and accuracy

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be able to communicate and comprehend both written and oral information
• Competence in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to operate equipment (Forklift, stock picker, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, carts)
• Must be certified by Acorn Distributors on all equipment as required by OSHA within 90 days
• High School diploma or equivalent
• A minimum of six (6) months to (1) year of experience in a distribution center

Equipment Used:

Forklift, stock picker, turret, electric walkie rider, pallet jack, riding floor scrubber and vacuum, two-wheeler, wrapping machine, dollies, and carts