Warehouse Associate | Freezer | Order Selector, Pallet Jack | Day Shift DC1

Alpine Food Distributing, Inc.

Salary: $42k - $52k
Experience: 1+ yrs
Location: Milwaukie, Oregon, United States
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Forklift
Pallet jack
RF gun

About the role

Description

We are growing! We need experienced, hard-working Warehouse Associates, who are dependable and eager to join our amazing team!

Alpine Food Distributing, Inc. is a well-established, local and family-owned company that distributes food products to retailers in 10+ western states. We have an excellent reputation both in the industry and the community. We continue to grow year over year, and we have immediate openings for dedicated and hard-working Warehouse Associates in our Operations department.

Alpine is an equal opportunity employer who offers a competitive wage and benefits:

Highly competitive wages, dependent on experience
Hiring Incentive $2k, paid quarterly in first year
Paid Bi-Weekly
Other benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  - Employee Base Plan paid by Alpine 100%
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time Accruals
- Paid Holidays
- 401(k) match
- Employee Discounts
- Company apparel
- Referral Bonuses available

Position Information: Performs various duties in a warehouse environment including, but not limited to, transfer of salt from rail car to bags via belt and to transport and store (salt production). Possible duties could include order selecting, receiving, shipping, operating forklifts, pallet jacks, RF guns, etc. Palletizes product for transit. Reports directly to the Warehouse Manager and assists the Warehouse as needed and assigned.

Essential Position Functions:

Good production rate.
Good attention to detail with high level of accuracy in all areas of work.
Good attendance record, dependable worker
Perform repetitious work accurately and with mental alertness
Shift differential for swing & grave shifts.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Good attendance record, dependable worker
Knowledge of food distribution
Basic math skills test
Basic English skills reading/writing/speaking

Education & Experience:

6 months to 1-year experience in warehouse work, production, order selection, receiving, shipping, building pallet of products, shrink wrap pallets.
Experience with safety procedures in a warehouse environment
Forklift, pallet jack experience
Pass criminal background check - no felonies in last 5 years
Must be 18 years of age or older

Special Skills:

Desire to contribute to a positive culture and be a member of a cohesive team.
Desire to learn and advance
Drive to exceed the expectations of internal and external customers

Physical Demands:

Ability to reach, lift, stack, and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to 50 lbs.
Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear and reach with hands and arms.
Ability to frequently bend, stoop, twist, and turn in a safe manner.
Exhibit manual dexterity and good hand/eye coordination to move freight.
Work in a freezer and cooler environments.
Pass physical agility test
Pass a drug screen

Work Environment:

Warehouse environment, walking and riding on equipment.
Constant temperature changes involving outside weather, refrigerated and freezer warehouse.

Supervision:

This position has no direct Supervisory responsibility.
This position receives Supervision and direction for all assignments. In some cases, Supervisor outlines steps involved in completing assignments or standard procedures are available to enable the employee to work in a routine fashion. The end results of this work are frequently checked.

Requirements

**Must complete a post-offer, pre-employment drug screen and background check, as well as a post-offer physical agility test.

**Must be able to successfully complete a basic prescreening Math-Logical Reasoning test, which is conducted at the start of your interview.

Summary

Alpine is a local, family-owned distribution company that supplies the 10 western states with a wide array of frozen and chill food product. We have established a culture that allows team members to be part of the improvement and positive change in our changing industry. The opportunity to learn the many areas of logistics is within your reach! We offer the ability to learn; operating electric pallet jack selecting orders, receiving, forklift and loading skills. We are looking to build a team of professional warehouse team members. The more skilled we are individually the more we can accomplish together.

About Alpine Food Distributing, Inc.

Regional distributor of frozen and refrigerated food products.

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