Material Handler - Full Time

Job Details: Job Location: Salvage - Bakersfield, CA 93313, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $16.50 - $16.50 Hourly, Goodwill employees are expected to represent the highest standards of behavior and job performance by: 1) acting with honesty and integrity; Accountability ~ Integrity ~ Dignity ~ Diversity & Inclusion ~ Ingenuity ~ Opportunity
SUPERVISION RECEIVED: SUPERVISION EXERCISED: The Material Handler I receives donations, along with transporting, sorting, selecting and properly displaying merchandise.
The expectation of this position is to achieve organizational, team and personal goals in alignment with our Strategic Vision Priorities and through living out our organizational Values.
Standards of Performance and Conduct Ensure actions are consistent with Goodwill ethics, policies, procedures, goals and mission.
Consistently maintain acceptable level of productivity, ensuring accounts payable/disbursement functions are completed accurately and timely.
Punctual and regular in attendance, understanding that time away from work is approved and taken in accordance with established policies.
Perform duties in a manner that promotes a team concept and reflects Goodwill’s mission, philosophy, and core values of accountability, integrity, dignity, diversity, ingenuity, excellence, opportunity and responsibility.
Work in accordance with Goodwill policies, procedures and generally accepted business practices.
Promote a favorable image and works cooperatively with all organization employees, participants, customers and other persons contacted during the course of performing duties.
comply with privacy and confidentiality policies.
Attend required safety training and participate in safety drills and exercises.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Complete opening activities to include doors, cone placement for trucks, prep for truck switch, prep of water cooling stations, donation drive through set up, gaylord moves, and other activities.
Moves, sorts, selects and properly displays merchandise in accordance with the company's procedures; Tagging and hanging of textiles, pricing of wares, shoes, and furniture, and distribution of products to the sales floor.
Responsible to perform housekeeping duties to maintain cleanliness of donation area, bathroom(s), and all interior and exterior of the store. This may include, but not be limited to, cleaning bathroom fixtures, walls, floors, completing a 5-minute drill prior to each rest and meal break, recovering garbage or other materials from interior or exterior of the building, sweeping, mopping, and/or vacuuming floors, and other cleaning activities.
Preparation of salvage items to include creating boxes, sorting and ensuring quality products are used for resale and not placed in salvage, and wrapping of odd sized or bulk furniture and gaylords to prepare for transportation.
Build furniture that may come in boxed for placement on the sales floor.
Become familiar with pricing lists and assist in pricing items in conformity with the company’s pricing policies.
Complete closing activities to include doors, cone retrieval for trucks, cleaning of water cooling stations, donation drive through tear down, gaylord moves, sales floor recovery, and other activities.
Complies with Safety and Loss Prevention policies and procedures.
Provides all necessary customer service while projecting a positive image during public contact. This might include pleasantly and receptively assisting donors in safely donating product, assisting with carry outs, and greeting and interacting with customers while working on the sales floor.
Report and document safety hazards, potentially hazardous conditions, and unsafe practices and procedures.
Attends meetings and training sessions as required.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Prior customer service experience is a plus.
Language Skills Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups, managers, employees, clients, customers, and the general public using tact, courtesy and cooperativeness.
Reasoning Ability Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables; Ability to operate basic office equipment, including computer, telephone, cell phone, tablet, fax and copy machine. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations None.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment Material Handler
Flexing Wrist
Visual Accommodation
Field of Vision/Peripheral
Administrative/Clerical)
Class 1
Moderate Physical Activity)

Heavy Physical Labor)

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: Outdoors
Fumes/Gases
Moving Mechanical Parts
Toxic/Caustic Chemicals