Warehouse Associate-Portland, OR

Utz Quality Foods, Inc; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Employer match 401k

Profit sharing plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Utz Quality Foods is seeking a Warehouse Associate at the Portland, OR Distribution Center to support sales operations. The role focuses on inventory, product rotation, loading, unloading, and maintaining accuracy.

You will work with a team to balance daily inventory using handheld devices, process returns, and prepare pallets for outbound shipments. Candidates should have a high school diploma or equivalent and warehouse experience; ERP like D365 is a plus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent or 2+ years of relevant experience in a warehouse.
• Experience using an Enterprise Resource System such as D365 is highly preferred.
• Requires organization and attention to detail to maintain accurate inventory, records, and rotation of product at the distribution center.
• Must be able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Opens and closes warehouse at scheduled times.
• Checks products picked and loaded, signing load tickets to verify inventory.
• Assists with training new warehouse team members.
• Orders inventory, receives, stores, loads, and ensures products are accounted for and kept in excellent condition.
• Unloads trailers and checks trailer loads for accuracy.
• Picks and builds pallets for outbound shipments, ensuring proper stacking and stability.
• Maintains an accurate daily inventory balances.
• Uses handheld computer to balance daily inventory.
• Accepts and checks return to stock, stale and damaged products.
• Places returned cardboard and stale and damaged product on trailers.
• Maintains cleanliness of warehouse, including the restrooms.
• Keeps warehouse organized including product rotation.
• Uses point of purchase material as needed.
• Assists with month-end inventory counts.

Skills

Effective communication

Attention to detail

Inventory management

Math skills

Team collaboration

Warehouse experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

D365 ERP

Microsoft Office/Excel/Outlook

Forklift operation

Job description

Utz Quality Foods is currently seeking a Warehouse Associate to join our sales operations team at the Portland, OR Distribution 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.
• Picks and builds pallets for outbound shipments, ensuring proper stacking and stability.
• 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.

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, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more. 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.

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