Warehouse Associate

Warehouse Associate

Burlingame, CA

Warehouse Associate Duties:

• Provides assistance in oversight of warehouse operations while working closely with warehouse manager to help team complete jobs and achieve company goals.
• Helps to ensure that all inventory items are tagged and labeled properly and that special order parts are received by technicians.
• Helps to manage ongoing tracking of equipment by logging the user's name, job location, dates released, and dates returned.
• Helps to verify equipment is functioning at all times and ensures equipment is returned daily to proper location.
• Helps to provide maintenance and repair of tools and equipment personally, or by shipping the equipment to the appropriate repair vendor.
• Works alongside customer service and dispatchers to ensure the overall success of the business.
• Upholds housekeeping and organization standards of the warehouse by organizing products and inventory, sweeping, clearing aisles, and emptying trash cans.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

• Core Value Alignment: Commits to greatness by working as a team, performing expert plumbing, building long term relationships and evaluating the results for continuous improvement, and following company core values:
• Respect – A feeling of deep admiration for each other's abilities, qualities, or achievements.
• Trust – A firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, and strength of our people and Company.
• Empowerment - Learn > Perfect > Teach.
• Work – Life Balance.
• Leadership: Exhibits confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well; effectively influences others' actions and opinions, accepts feedback from others, gives appropriate recognition to others, identifies employees with potential, and invests time and energy in developing talent.
• Strategic Thinking: Focuses on creating a better future for the organization; prioritizes work performed by the level of importance and adds value through the accomplishment of high payoff results. Takes independent actions and calculated risks by looking for and taking advantage of opportunities.
• Cost Management: Controls cost through economical utilization of personnel, materials, and equipment, determines how budgets will be spent to get the work done, and accounts for all decisions and expenditures.
• Job Knowledge and Technical Skills: Thoroughly understands all aspects of the job; upholds company standards of ethical operations by ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations; possesses the practical hands-on experience, needs some direction, drives to build a knowledge base and improve professional skills continuously.
• Productivity and Dependability: Meets schedules, deadlines, and productivity standards; completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan, strives to exceed productivity standards by completing work promptly, prioritizes workloads, attains needed resources, and execute a strategy that optimized results.
• Communication: Speaks clearly and persuasively in all situations, listens without interrupting and seeks clarification, responds well to questions, and writes in an informative and professional manner.
• Customer Service: Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; promptly responds to customer needs; solicits customer feedback to improve service; promptly responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments.
• Teamwork: Works effectively with others; balances the team's needs and those of the individual; gives and welcomes feedback.
• Judgment and Problem Solving: Gathers and analyzes information skillfully using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems; identifies and resolves issues promptly; considers relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; uses reason when dealing with emotional topics.
• Professionalism and Interpersonal Skills: Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, tactfully approaches others, focuses on solving conflict without blame, maintains confidentiality, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments, remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation, copes well with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
• Stress Management: Reacts and responds well under pressure; keeps emotions under control; successfully copes with demands from superiors, subordinates, and peers.
• Initiative: Displays the desire to volunteer readily and undertake self-development activities by seeking increased responsibilities, sets and achieves challenging goals while demonstrating persistence in overcoming obstacles, measures self against excellence standards while asking for and offering help when needed.
• Innovation: Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention

Qualifications: Successful individuals who perform the responsibilities of this position must perform their essential duties satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing the functions required of the position.

• Education: Required: High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Experience: Required: three years of Inventory Management experience.
• Language Skills: Must possess the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Writes routine reports and correspondence and speaks effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Must have the ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume while applying concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Reasoning Ability: Must possess the ability to solve practical problems and deal with various concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists while interpreting various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Business Acumen: Must understand the business implications of decisions, displays orientation to profitability, demonstrates knowledge of market and competition, and aligns work with strategic goals.
• Computer Skills: Must have knowledge of Internet software and Microsoft Suite of Products.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Conditions of Employment: In addition to the qualifications listed above, this job has additional conditions of employment essential to the position. This list is not considered comprehensive, and other conditions of employment are likely due to the nature of the position.

• Must maintain a valid State Driver's License and meets Company Insurance Carrier Standards for Insurability.

Rate of pay $25 - $28 an hour