Warehouse Worker Freezer

• Industry: Asian Food Distributor
• Title: Warehouse Worker - Freezer
• Reports to: Warehouse manager
• Job Level: Union Position
• Location: Savage Maryland (On-site)
  
• Work Hours: 12:00 PM 8:30 PM (30-minute break included; overtime may be required based on workload)
• Hourly Salary: $22.95
• Benefits: health vision dental 401K pension vacation and sick leave
• Visa Support: No

This position is a union position. Union membership is required after the probationary period. Union dues may apply.

Position Overview
Manually move product or other materials and perform other unskilled general labor.

Tasks

• Read orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments
• Record numbers of units handled and moved
• Move product and other materials to and from storage areas loading docks and delivery vehicles by hand and special equipment
• Sort product before loading and unloading
• Other light maintenance duties

Work Context

• Lifting/Carrying up to about 50 lbs.
• Pushing/pulling more than 80 -100 lbs
• Operating machinery including forklift pallet jacket etc.
• Coordination and communication with management and peers
• Requires written and oral communication in English
• Requires being exact or highly accurate
• Requires meeting strict deadlines
• Requires coordinating with others in accomplishing work activities
• Includes responsibility for work outcomes
• Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions
• Required working for periods of up to 60 minutes is temperatures below 5 degrees
• Requires wearing special cold temperature protective gear
• Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable
• Requires standing for extended periods of time
• Requires repetitive movement walking bending twisting seeing hearing talking manual dexterity and flexibility in fingers and hands
• Requires reaching with hands and arms
• Requires repeating the same physical and mental activities over and over
• Requires working until the daily work is finished (8 hours or more)

Work Activities

• Performing general physical activities
• Communicating with supervisors and peers
• Processing information
• Handling and moving objects
• Identifying objects
• Getting information
• Organizing and prioritizing work
• Monitor materials and surroundings
• Prepare goods for shipment or storage
• Count products
• Move or lift heavy objects
• Sort products
• Read orders
• Maintain safe work environment
• Maintain clean work area
• Wrap products
• Load unload and stack products

Skills

Basic Skills:

• Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying taking time to understand the points being made asking questions as appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively

Resource Management Skills:

• Time Management

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Employee may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.