Warehouse Worker

Warehouse Worker

Department: Distribution-Direct Labor

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Astoria


Reporting To: Jeff Day

Description

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members' personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence-which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.


Summary:

A Warehouse Worker at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Warehouse team supporting efforts to increase operational efficiency and maximizing cost control efforts within the warehouse. This position involves promptly unloading/replenishing products, and is ideal for someone who is organized, reliable, and safety conscious.


Key Responsibilities

1. Warehouse Operations:

• Work with transport drivers to ensure incoming loads are received in a timely manner.
• Able to review receiving documentation to ensure accuracy.
• Maintain the warehouse configuration according to the approved layout for product, packaging, and equipment storage.
• Properly load a pallet to trucks and ensure loads are stable and secure.
• Clean up spills immediately or flag the area off, avoid blocking emergency exits, and report any potential hazards to a supervisor.
• Follow all established safety rules and obey safety signs and tags.
• Properly operate forklift, pallet jack, and other necessary powered equipment.
• Ensure product is inspected for quality, product/pallets properly tagged and rotated.
• Verify that all return labels have been approved/checked prior to placing product back in inventory.
• Promptly report all needed repairs and ensure preventive maintenance is performed on your equipment.
• Understand and perform all the appropriate HACCP plans assigned.

2. Inventory Management:

• Understand how to read and utilize pick tickets to pick, pack, and load orders.
• Ensure product is fully received, rotation is complete, and product is staged in the correct quantities.
• Perform necessary emergency replenishment for products that run below minimum levels to meet customer order demands from the daily order selection shift.

Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.

What you bring to Pacific Seafood

Education and Experience

• Required
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • No experience necessary, willing to train on the job.
• Preferred
  • Forklift and pallet jack experience.
  • Forklift certification.
  • Driver's license.

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:

• Must be available to work variable shifts, including weekends and holidays.
• Must be able to watch and react to changing situations, to ensure safety.
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to stand or walk for long periods.
• Ability to use hands and fingers to carefully complete tasks and skillful actions, making sure to pay close attention to details and accuracy.
• Ability to read a limited number of two and three-syllable words and recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to understand and carry out written or oral instructions.
• Capable of working and communicating in loud environments, while focusing on tasks.
• Capable of training in using specialized tools and equipment pertinent to operations.
• Capable of solving simple math equations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Working Conditions
The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:

• Traditional warehouse and distribution facility environment
• Large, specialized equipment
• Large moving equipment
• High noise level
• Exposure to cold/freezing temperatures
• Exposure to hazardous material
• Wet environment
• Safety equipment (hair nets, gloves, smock, etc.)
• Well-illuminated environment
• Scents related to the production facility

Benefits

Total Compensation:

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:

• Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short-term disability.
• Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses
• 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match
• Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include sick days, holiday pay, vacation, and personal time
• Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members
• Product purchase program

Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.