Warehouse Technician

Warehouse Technician

Fontaine Modification focuses on the design and manufacturing of innovative solutions for heavy truck manufacturers, dealers, and commercial truck users worldwide. We fill the niche between what OEM truck chassis builders can produce in their respective manufacturing plants and what the market needs for the wide variety of fleet and vocational truck applications. Fontaine's long history of providing innovative and custom-engineered solutions in an environment of integrity, customer responsiveness, quality products, and superior workmanship has made us a recognized leader in the industry for more than half a century.

Fontaine Modification is seeking a dependable, safety-focused, quality-minded, and detail-oriented Warehouse Technician to support production operations through disciplined material handling, inventory control, warehouse organization, and line-side material support.

The Warehouse Technician is a critical link between suppliers, warehouse operations, production, quality, and the customer. The position is responsible for ensuring the right material is available, in the right quantity, in the right condition, at the right location, and at the right time to support production requirements.

The successful candidate will demonstrate ownership of the warehouse environment, maintain high standards of safety and housekeeping, protect inventory accuracy, identify problems before they disrupt production, and actively contribute to continuous improvement.

This position is expected to operate with a "production-ready" mindset: anticipate needs, identify risks, communicate issues early, and take action to prevent material shortages, errors, damage, delays, and unnecessary downtime.

Core Responsibilities

• Receive, unload, inspect, identify, and verify incoming materials, components, supplies, and equipment against applicable documentation.
• Confirm quantities, part numbers, descriptions, condition, and other required information before material is placed into inventory.
• Identify and immediately communicate damaged, incorrect, short, excess, or questionable material.
• Accurately process material transactions in applicable inventory/status systems.
• Maintain accurate inventory locations and ensure materials are stored in their designated locations.
• Perform routine cycle counts and participate in physical inventory activities.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies and assist in identifying root causes rather than simply correcting system quantities.
• Protect inventory from damage, contamination, deterioration, loss, or unauthorized use.
• Maintain appropriate material identification, labeling, lot/part traceability, and organization standards.

• Pick, stage, sequence, and deliver materials to production in accordance with production schedules and established material-flow requirements.
• Maintain appropriate line-side inventory levels to support uninterrupted production without creating unnecessary excess inventory or congestion.
• Monitor production requirements and proactively identify potential material shortages before they affect production.
• Coordinate with production personnel and leadership regarding material priorities, shortages, substitutions, discrepancies, and changing requirements.
• Support efficient material flow throughout the facility.
• Ensure materials delivered to production are the correct part, correct quantity, correct condition, and correct destination.
• Retrieve and return unused, excess, or obsolete material in accordance with established processes.
• Support production changeovers, special projects, customer requirements, and other operational priorities as assigned.

• Support outbound shipping activities, including material preparation, packaging, labeling, staging, loading, and documentation.
• Verify shipments for accuracy before release.
• Properly secure and protect materials during movement and shipment.
• Maintain organized shipping and receiving areas.
• Communicate shipment discrepancies, delays, damage, or other concerns promptly.

• Demonstrate personal ownership for safety and actively contribute to a safe work environment.
• Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, carts, and other material-handling equipment safely and in accordance with training and established procedures.
• Complete required inspections of material-handling equipment before use and report unsafe conditions or equipment defects immediately.
• Follow applicable OSHA requirements, Fontaine safety policies, procedures, JSAs/JHAs, and established safe-work practices.
• Maintain clear aisles, emergency access, exits, fire equipment access, and designated pedestrian/forklift travel paths.
• Properly store materials to prevent falling-object, struck-by, ergonomic, fire, chemical, and other workplace hazards.
• Stop and escalate work when an unsafe condition presents an immediate risk to people, equipment, product, or the facility.
• Participate in safety observations, Good Catch/Near Miss reporting, corrective actions, and other proactive safety initiatives.
• Promote a safety culture in which employees are expected to identify hazards and address them before an incident occurs.

• Treat material accuracy as a quality responsibility and recognize that incorrect or damaged material can directly affect the finished truck and customer.
• Follow established inspection, identification, storage, handling, and traceability requirements.
• Prevent material damage through proper handling, storage, transportation, and stacking practices.
• Immediately communicate quality concerns, incorrect parts, damaged material, or potential nonconformances.
• Support containment and corrective-action activities when material or inventory issues are identified.
• Maintain accurate documentation and system transactions to support product and material traceability.

• Maintain warehouse areas according to established 5S standards: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain.
• Identify opportunities to improve material flow, storage utilization, inventory accuracy, ergonomics, safety, productivity, and workplace organization.
• Participate in continuous-improvement activities and problem-solving initiatives.
• Support visual management practices, standardized work, and established warehouse procedures.
• Identify recurring problems and bring forward improvement opportunities rather than accepting inefficient processes as "the way we have always done it."
• Participate in Kaizen, 5S audits, safety activities, process reviews, and other improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Maintain an organized warehouse that allows employees to quickly identify what is needed, where it belongs, and whether it is available.

• Maintain timely, professional, and accurate communication with warehouse personnel, production employees, supervisors, managers, suppliers, carriers, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate material shortages, inventory discrepancies, shipment issues, damaged material, safety concerns, and other operational risks promptly.
• Listen effectively and actively seek feedback without becoming defensive.
• Build productive relationships across departments and contribute to a culture of teamwork and accountability.
• Provide clear information during shift changes and handoffs to ensure continuity of operations.
• Demonstrate flexibility when production priorities or customer requirements change.
• Support coworkers and other departments when operational needs require additional assistance.

Performance Expectations

The Warehouse Technician is expected to demonstrate the following behaviors consistently:

Ownership

Takes responsibility for the condition, accuracy, organization, and performance of the warehouse area. Does not wait for someone else to identify obvious problems.

Accuracy

Understands that inventory accuracy directly impacts production, cost, customer satisfaction, and operational performance. Verifies information before completing transactions or releasing material.

Production Mindset

Understands production priorities and proactively supports the flow of material necessary to meet customer commitments.

Safety Leadership

Recognizes that safety is everyone's responsibility. Identifies hazards, speaks up, and takes appropriate action when unsafe conditions are observed.

Problem Solving

Looks beyond the immediate problem to understand why it occurred and participates in preventing recurrence.

Reliability

Reports to work prepared, follows through on commitments, completes assignments on time, and can be relied upon during changing production demands.

Professionalism

Deals directly and respectfully with people and problems, maintains composure under pressure, and represents Fontaine professionally.

Continuous Improvement

Looks for better, safer, faster, and more efficient ways to perform work while maintaining quality and compliance.

Key Competencies

Communication: Listening effectively, transmitting information accurately and understandably, actively seeking feedback, and communicating operational concerns promptly.

Customer Focus: Understanding and meeting the needs of internal and external customers and recognizing that warehouse performance directly affects production and the ultimate customer.

Flexibility: Performing a wide range of tasks, responding effectively to