Receiving Associate

American Furniture Warehouse; Thornton (CO); On-site; USD 24,796 - 31,491; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym facilities

Vacation days

Training & leadership development tracks

Job summary

American Furniture Warehouse in Thornton, Colorado is looking for a Receiving Associate. This role involves safely loading and unloading merchandise, ensuring accurate inventory management, and maintaining safety protocols. A competitive starting pay of $18.00-$22.86/hr is offered, along with promotions through training.

Physical fitness is essential as the position requires heavy lifting and operating warehouse equipment. Benefits include vacation days, a gym facility in most locations, and opportunities for career advancement.

Qualifications

• Ability to become certified in the operation of warehouse equipment.
• Able to operate a lift and pallet jack for loading and unloading.
• Ability to perform safe lifting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Load and unload merchandise from trailers and containers.
• Ensure accurate matching of packing lists to vendor labels.
• Promote safety policies and procedures.

Skills

Warehouse equipment operation

Forklift operation

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Tools

Radio frequency (RF) scanner

Pallet jack

Job description

The role of the Receiving Associate is to safely and efficiently load, unload, identify and tag merchandise from vendors and other AFW facilities. The Receiving Associate position offers one of the best distribution/warehouse earning packages in the area.

Starting Pay: $18.00-$22.86/HR (.50 more can be earned if cross trained in Order Pulling) with a $2/Hr Weekend Premium added on to your base pay rate.

We pay every Friday.

40-80 hours of vacation annually

2 personal days each year

Company-provided training & leadership development tracks for promotion opportunities.

Gym facilities in most work locations

Job Requirements

• Ability to become certified in the operation of warehouse equipment.
• Ability to use trailer chocks.
• Ability to operate a fork lift, reach truck, and pallet jack for loading and unloading trailers/containers.
• Ability to operate and use a hand truck.
• Ability to perform the correct lifting and team lifting techniques.

Job Expectations

• Commitment to AFW’s safety policies and procedures and ability to promote awareness.
• Able to breakdown merchandise inside trailers/containers - unstack and position merchandise for removal from trailers/containers.
• Able to operate a radio frequency (RF) scanner.
• Able to safely operate load hoggs and dock plates.
• Accurately match packing list to vendor labels.
• Accurately load merchandise from the dock to trailers. Tie-in merchandise to trailers in a safe manner.
• Accurately identify merchandise by vendor label and apply matching AFW label to the merchandise when directed by the AFW management team.
• Able to sweep docks, trailers, and containers.
• Able to safely load merchandise onto pallets.
• Able to safely load and unload merchandise to and from pallets/skids.
• Ability to efficiently work independent of direct supervision.
• Able to have a flexible schedule and work all shifts, holidays, and weekends.
• Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates in a cooperative, constructive manner.
• All training provided by AFW.

Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and at times congested areas.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 8 hours or more daily.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• Requires lift, lower, push and pull all sizes of merchandise up to 100 lbs. frequently and ability to handle/manipulate up to 250 lbs. frequently.
• The Receiving position requires lifting, gripping, bending, kneeling, stooping and moving merchandise 8 hours or more daily.

Physical Work Environment

• Fluorescent Lighting
• Climate effected by outside conditions
• Extreme temperature fluctuations in warehouse

A pre-employment drug screen and pre-employment background check must be passed upon job offer.

American Furniture Warehouse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.