Material Handler I

Our Mission: Providing people the skills and resources to become selfsufficient through the power of work.

Our Diversity Statement: LLGI recognizes our employees differences in age disability veteran status ethnicity national origin language race religion family and marital status socialeconomic status gender identity sexual orientation political affiliation and other unique attributes. The individual differences life experiences knowledge innovation unique capabilities and talent our employees bring to the workplace represents an essential part of our culture.

Job Title: Material Handler I

Department: Retail Operations/Warehouse

Reports To: Warehouse Manager

Classification: NonExempt

EEO1 Category: Service Workers

Safety Sensitive: Yes

Supervises: N/A

Job Summary

Moves processes ships receives and controls raw donations salvage and/or recycling inventory and stored inventory.

Essential Job Duties

• Coordinate and expedite the flow of donated goods between the processing storage dock areas and salvage.
• Assist team in providing required materials for production.
• Process and control inventory following established procedures.
• Load and unload tractor trailers with donated goods.
• Operate a baler and lift tables in accordance with OSHA and LLGI standards.
• Perform janitorial duties.
• Maintain clean and organized work area including assisting with trash and salvage removal.
• Participates in required training.
• Effectively manage time to ensure that work is completed.
• Contributes to team success by involving others in work processes decisions and actions.
• Monitors and recognizes security risks and thefts and assists in their prevention.
• Ensure that the customers perspective is a driving force behind customer satisfaction
• Seek to understand the customers circumstances problems expectations and needs
• Identify customer service issues and create solutions
• Build customer awareness around our mission
• Identify and correct conditions that affect employee and customer safety.
• Comply with safety standards
• Identify opportunities generate ideas to improve warehouse and salvage objectives
• Initiates action to maintain daily warehouse and salvage goals
• Partner with all Retail players to identify assess create and implement process improvement
• Embrace the values vision and mission of LLGI
• Initiate action to accomplish objectives and being proactive
• Seek to understand individual differences and values to build workplace relationship
• Learn and apply new jobrelated information in a timely manner

Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Competencies

Adaptability Managing Conflict Stress Tolerance

Communication Tenacity Urgency

Education Experience and Credentials

• Requires basic math skills.
• Requires ability to analyze a situation recognize potential issues before they arise and recommend appropriate solutions

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates the ability to be consistently at work and on time on scheduled work days.
• Conveys information clearly through verbal communication.
• Works independently while fostering a strong team atmosphere.
• Interacts with people in a manner which enhances their dignity privacy and confidentiality.
• Requires knowledge of and ability to follow all LLGI policies and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of information related to LLGI operations.
• Demonstrates professionalism.
• Conveys information clearly through verbal communication.
• Requires ability to maintain confidentiality of information related to LLGI operations financial matters and personnel matters
• Requires ability to interact with individuals in a manner which enhances their dignity privacy and confidentiality
• Promotes diversity and inclusion throughout the organization
• Demonstrates sensitivity and the ability to communicate with a diverse population.
• Embraces the mission vision and values of LLGI
• Works independently while fostering a strong team atmosphere
• Requires ability to demonstrate professionalism

Physical Requirements

• Lifts or moves up to fifty 50 pounds of clothing and house wares safely on and off retail shelving fixtures up to ten 10 feet high clothing racks four 4 feet high and zracks six 6 feet high.
• Requires ability to stand for extended periods.
• Requires ability to reach by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
• Pushes and pulls zracks holding up to onehundred 100 pieces of clothing and weighing a minimum of 150 pounds.
• Bends and reaches into gaylords five 5 feet high to remove clothing and house wares.
• Requires ability to use pallet jack with loads ranging from 100 to 700 pounds safely.
• Requires ability to perform a combination of tasks such as stooping bending kneeling crouching crawling lifting reaching carrying pushing or pulling objects.
• Requires visual and hearing ability sufficient to power equipment in a safe manner.

Environmental Conditions

• Works in a light industrial/warehouse environment with exposure to heat and cold
• Subject to exposure to allergens including dirt dust mold metals rubber plastics latex and pet hair
• Requires visual acuity to work in an environment with changing and/or low light levels.

Tools and Equipment

Trailers baler bale carts lift table pallet jack stacker scales compactor wheeled spring carts wheeled deep carts wheeled zracks 2 wheel dollies (hand truck) 4 wheel flat carts material lifts furniture dollies trash bin/can trash dumpster personal protective equipment basic tools of the assigned work area phone / two way radio computer fax photocopier mops mop buckets brooms dust pans vacuums cleaning solvents.

Regular Contacts

LLGI Staff Volunteers/ Community Service Workers Transport Company

Vendors/ Suppliers Donors/Customers

At Land of Lincoln Goodwill we offer a variety of benefits to our employees. For more information on what LLGI offers please click on this link:http://llgi/careers/Land of Lincoln Goodwill is also a drug free workplace and equal opportunity employer. All positions offered are subject to a preemployment drug screen and criminal background check.

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