Second Shift - Material Handler

LDF Companies; Wichita (KS); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly bonuses

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

LDF Companies is seeking a Second Shift Material Handler to support warehouse operations in Wichita, KS. You will work with a team to process outbound operations, maintain safety, and meet daily productivity targets. Training path aims to promote to Material Handler II within 18 months.

The role requires forklift certification, basic PC skills, and the ability to operate WMS systems (VIP and CirrusTech). This full-time position offers benefits and potential bonuses within a growing distribution

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older.
• Flexibility to perform various roles within a single shift.
• Forklift certified and able to operate equipment.
• Able to read and follow standard work instructions.

Responsibilities

• Learn LDF warehouse standard practices and assist in enforcing them.
• Achieve productivity standards to meet budgets and schedules.
• Perform basic warehouse tasks: receiving, storage, and order fulfillment.
• Maintain safety, quality, and inventory accuracy in daily operations.

Skills

Forklift operation

Warehouse operations

Basic PC skills

Communication

Safety awareness

Education

High school diploma/GED

Tools

VIP WMS

CirrusTech WMS

Job description

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Second Shift - Material Handler

FT-Shift Differential 4% Manual Labor Wichita - Distribution Center KS, Wichita, KS, US

5 days ago Requisition ID: 1824

Now is the time to join the LDF Warehouse Team and be a part of our growth & successes!

If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, come work at LDF!

LDF Sales & Distributing, Inc. is looking for Dynamic Employees to join the LDFWarehouse Team on our Second Shift - Full Time, Monday -Thursday and possible Friday afternoons. Come join an AWESOME TEAM and have FUN while you work with BEER ! You are more than just a number, you are part of the family! Are you looking for a positive company culture, great benefits, bonus potential and opportunities to advance your career? We are looking for you!

One of the important takeaways to LDF’s long-lasting success is our honest and complete determination to do the right thing for our employees, customers, and the communities we live in. Community involvement and giving back is our priority and we believe in working beside each other as a team helping others. Some would even describe LDF’s employees as a "work family" because of the relationships we build.
LDF is an aggressive, high performance and fast-growing company that markets, sells, and distributes an expansive range of beer, wine, spirits and non-alcoholic beverages in Kansas and Oklahoma. Larry D. Fleming, Chairman, founded LDF in 1983 and has maintained a steady growth as a premier wholesale distributor since this amazing journey began.

Our culture is diverse, and our employees feel appreciated bust mostly we are inspired to accomplish our goals and contribute to the company’s success. There is not a better time to join the LDF team than now! We offer a complete benefits package to include tuition reimbursement and a 401k retirement plan. In addition, we have an awesome variety of craft, import, and domestic beer brands available and we are recognized as a leading regional distributor.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• 80 hours of PTO before your 1 st Anniversary!
• PTO continues to increase based on tenure.
• Secure & Stable employmentw/Bi-weekly pay
• Full benefits package to include retirement plan & tuitionreimbursement.
• Monthly bonuses & incentives
• EAC – Employee Activity Committee (community involvement & employee activities/outings)
• Uniformsprovided.

Work Schedule:

The Material Handler 1 role will provide sales support and customer service by working with the warehouse team for outbound operations. This position will report to the warehouse supervisor and as a Warehouse Material Handler I (1) he/she will be entering in an entry-level, training role to achieve Warehouse Material Handler II within 18 months. Participates in continuous improvement objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learn all LDF warehouse standard practices and is responsible to assist manager with enforcement of those practices.
• Achieve productivity standards to meet operational budgets.
• Achieve critical operational timing to meet customer and internal needs.
• Demonstrates ability to comprehend and perform at target level in basic warehouse tasks including but not limited to: receiving, storage and order fulfillment.
• Exhibits competency of work practices to allow operational flexibility. This includes competency in basic shift-specific tasks as detailed by skills matrix and supervisor requirement.
• Interface with external contacts professionally to satisfy customers, carriers and contractors.
• Ensures all OSHA safety regulations, local regulations and company safety rules are observed. Drive safety in work behaviors.
• Ensures quality through limiting internal damage of product, proper loading and unloading of product to prevent damage at warehouse, route and customer.
• Demonstrates competency in assigned operational functions of WMS systems. Current systems include VIP and CirrusTech.
• Ensures proper product rotation and segregation using FIFO methods by leveraging WMS and manual monitoring.
• Deliver inventory accuracy through proper WMS and manual methods. Meets objectives for net shrink, absolute shrink and location accuracy.
• Assures a clean work space leveraging visual management, 5S and warehouse certification.
• Regularly inspect facility and equipment for operational readiness, escalates or resolves issues as identified.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must be 18 or older
• Flexibility to perform various roles within a single shift.
• Demonstrates competent skills in shift-specific operations and forklift operation.
• Basic PC skills to perform tasks in WMS systems.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Understands company policies, procedures and operations.
• Completes company training programs.

Education / Experience:

• Prefer minimum 6 months warehouse operations and high school diploma/GED.
• Language Ability: Has ability to communicate with peers and leadership and articulate problems or questions to the appropriate personnel.
• Math Ability: Must exhibit comprehension of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

• Has ability to read and follow directions from standard work instructions. Ability to conceptualize the placement of a certain number of items on rack, pallets or carts. Basic decision making.

Certificates and Licenses:

• Forklift certified.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Warehouse environment. Schedule dependent on assigned shift and business objectives. Minimum 40 hours per week on a four or five-day schedule. Early morning, evening or nights may be required. Overtime as required to meet business demands.

Physical Demands:Deals with sudden temperature changes when entering and exiting warehouse refrigerated area. Maintains an acute awareness of moving forklifts and trucks.Requires continuous standing, walking, bending, reaching, pushing/pulling and lifting/carrying up to 160 lbs.May use back brace.

Prior Roles:

• None
• None

Target Roles:

• Warehouse Material Handler II

It is the policy of LDF Companies to employ applicants on a non-discriminatory basis, without unlawful discrimination due to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or Veteran status. This policy is extended to all employees regarding the terms, conditions, or privileges of their employment.

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