Warehouse Associate

Utz Quality Foods, Inc; Kent (WA); Presencial; USD 28.000 - 40.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Employer 401(k) match

Paid time off and holidays

Descripción de la vacante

Utz Quality Foods, Inc. in Kent, WA is seeking a Warehouse Associate to join our distribution center team. You will oversee and organize warehouse operations, ensuring product rotation, condition, inventory accuracy, security, and proper placement.

The role requires the ability to lift and move light to medium-weight products, operate a forklift if needed, and effectively communicate. Competitive hourly pay starts at $24.58, with full-time benefits and opportunities for growth.

Formación

• High school diploma or equivalent or 2+ years of relevant warehouse experience.
• Experience using an ERP system such as D365 preferred.
• Must maintain accurate inventory and rotation of product at DC.
• Effective communication, both verbal and written.
• Basic math skills required.
• Independent decision making on inventory needs during promotions.
• Forklift operation or hand jack may be required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Outlook/Excel.

Responsabilidades

• Open and close warehouse at scheduled times.
• Check product against load tickets and verify inventory.
• Assist with training new warehouse team members.
• Receive, store, load, and account for products and materials.
• Unload arriving trailers and verify trailer loads.
• Maintain accurate daily inventory balances.

Conocimientos

Forklift operation

Inventory control

Microsoft Office/Excel

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Educación

High school diploma

Herramientas

D365 ERP

Descripción del empleo

Utz Quality Foods is currently seeking a Warehouse Associate to join our sales operations team at the Kent, WADistribution Center. The Warehouse associate oversees and organizes warehouse operations. Key responsibilities include ensuring product rotation, condition, inventory, security, and placement are efficiently maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures that warehouse is opened and closed at scheduled times.
• Checks product that Independent Operators and Distributors pick and load, signing load tickets to verify correct inventory.
• Assists with training new warehouse team members.
• Orders inventory. Receives, stores, loads, and ensures all products and materials are accounted for and kept in excellent condition.
• Unloads trailers that arrive at the center and checks trailer loads for accuracy.
• Maintains an accurate daily inventory balances.
• Uses a hand-held computer to balance the daily inventory (warehouse inventory, daily orders, extra orders, return to stock, trailer loads).
• Accepts and checks return to stock product and stale and damaged products.
• Places returned cardboard and stale and damaged product on trailers.
• Maintains cleanliness of warehouse, including the restroom(s).
• Keeps warehouse organized including product rotation.
• Uses point of purchase material as needed.
• Assists with month-end inventory counts.
• Pay rate $24.58/hour

Job Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent or 2+ years of relevant experience working in a warehouse preferred.
• Prior experience using an Enterprise Resource System such as D365 is highly preferred.
• Requires organization and attention to details to maintain accurate inventory, records, and rotation of product at the distribution center.
• Must be able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Requires basic math skills.
• Requires independent decision making on inventory needs, especially during promotional activity.
• Ability to drive a forklift and/or use a hand jack may be required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Outlook/Excel.
• Requires use of hands for simple grasping.
• Requires the ability to walk, sit, talk, bend, stand, twist, push, and pull frequently and for long periods.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push, pull, load, and transport light to medium weight products

Continuously Pursuing Excellence!

Here at Utz, we have a passion for exciting and delighting consumers with delicious snack foods made from high quality ingredients. After over a century with a strong family heritage, our diverse portfolio of brands includes Utz, Zapp's, Boulder Canyon, and On the Border. Our associates are the reason for the success of this company, so it is important we provide a supportive, caring and inclusive environment that offers opportunities for career growth and advancement. We also help take care of our associates by providing benefits, resources, and programs that ensure they live their healthiest lives. Our full-time benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, an employer match 401(k), profit sharing, and employee stock purchase plan. During the first year of service, hired applicants will earn Paid Time Off in the form of Vacation and Flex PTO at the accrual rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked, earning a maximum of 40 hours of Vacation and 40 hours of Flex PTO at the accrual rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked, earning a maximum of 40 hours of Vacation and 40 hours of Flex PTO, for a combined maximum total of 80 hours. In addition to PTO, Utz offers 6 paid company holidays each year. Join our world class team and help us become the fastest growing pure-play U.S. snacking company of scale!

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.