Part-Time Warehouse Associate

Position Status - Part Time

Hourly Rate - $15.00

Location/Address 300 Carver Ln., East Peoria, IL 61611

Job Summary

The Warehouse Material Handler plays a vital role in maintaining the flow of donated goods throughout the warehouse. This position ensures donations are efficiently sorted, processed, and prepared for distribution or recycling. The role is highly physical and requires operating warehouse equipment safely and effectively while working in a fast-paced, production-driven environment. Some of the key duties include unloading donations, sorting and organizing goods, operating heavy equipment, and maintaining a clean and safe work area.

Example Duties and Activities

• Unloads and loads trailers with donated goods using forklifts, pallet jacks, and other equipment in accordance with OSHA safety standards.
• Expedites the movement of goods between processing, storage, and dock areas.
• Provides excellent customer service to donors, offering assistance and education about Goodwill's mission and programs.
• Ensures all donations are handled carefully and respectfully.
• Sorts and processes donations, ensuring items are appropriately categorized for retail, recycling, or disposal.
• Operates a baler to compact recyclable goods, preparing them for shipment.
• Organizes and stacks recycled materials and disposes of metals for recycling.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and organized warehouse environment by sweeping floors, labeling boxes, and keeping work areas clear.
• Monitors and performs preventative checks on warehouse equipment.
• Identifies and reports unsafe conditions, damaged equipment, or potential hazards to leadership.
• Performs other related duties as assigned to support overall warehouse operations.

Required Competencies

• Degree and Credential Requirements: NONE! We value candidates who can demonstrate capability and articulate how prior experiences will help them contribute. We believe in continuous learning and professional development.
• Knowledge of Warehouse Processes - Possesses familiarity with receiving, putaway, storage, picking, packing, and shipping to ensure continuous efficient warehousing operations. Has used pallet jack, double stacker, baler, and/or tipper.
• Communication Skills - Articulates thoughts and expresses ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to comprehend customers' needs. Delivers information in person, in writing, and in a digital world.
• Customer Focus - Has the ability to see, comprehend and relate with customers in an impartial, unbiased yet effective and balanced manner; builds and maintains customer satisfaction with the products and services offered by the organization; provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Mathematical Aptitude - Adds and subtracts two-digit numbers and multiplies and divides with 10s and 100s. Is able to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Reasoning Ability - Ability to apply common sense to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Teamwork - Works well with others and makes valued contributions to the outputs of others in order to assist the team or project to achieve the required outputs.
• Ethical - Adheres to procedures and protocol, including maintaining confidentiality in passwords, logging on and off procedures, and adherence to Goodwill's values.
• Attention to Detail - Attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks, including safety awareness.
• Time Management - Manages one's own time and the time of others effectively.

Preferred Competencies

• Technical Knowledge - Has familiarity with computers and relevant software including basic computer and Internet navigation skills.

Other Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Hard to Very Hard Physical Work - Is able to spend time in excess of 8 hours sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, and crouching. Uses hands to grasp, carry, feel, or touch products and machinery. Has the ability to move and lift up to 50 pounds. Can manage frequent exposure to moderate noise and temperature variations.
• Visual Acuity - Has close, distance, peripheral, color vision abilities, depth perception, and is able to adjust focus.

Benefits: Part-time employees may participate in a comprehensive benefits program that includes:

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and free Mental Health Counseling Services
• Robust discount and wellness programming
• Financial education program
• Sabbatical leave
• Daily pay options available

Mission and Values: click here

Goodwill is an EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled employer