Mover / Laborer

Mover

Job Category: Retail

Location: Long Island City, NY 11101, USA

Compensation: $18/hour

Benefits: We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and textbooks.

Overview: Movers are responsible for loading, unloading, and transport of donations from both the Call Center and Refashion manifests.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for completing daily manifests.
• Responsible for calling donors and/or building management to confirm collection and provide estimated time of arrival.
• Responsible for the installation, delivery, and pick up of Refashion donations.
• Accountable for accurately resolving daily manifest: recording updates and providing the finalized manifest to management.
• Ensure proper care to vehicles and moving equipment.
• Assess furniture donations for delivery to shops while accurately recording adjustments.
• On site customer service for donors during pick-ups providing them with tax forms and further information about our donations policies and Refashion program.

Secondary:

• Participates in occasional sales meetings to provide feedback in regards to furniture pick ups.
• Participates in annual training and advocacy efforts.

Requirements:

• OSHA certified or willing to get certification.
• Microsoft office computer skills including word, excel, and outlook.

Housing Works was founded in 1990; with a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State's first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works' New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union ("RWDSU"). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a "CBA") between Housing Works and the RWDSU.

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