About the position
JOIN OUR WAREHOUSE TEAM! Ready to build a career with a company that's leading the foodservice industry? At US Foods, we are one of the largest food distributors with a culture and a history of promoting from within. We offer excellent training programs and a continuous improvement focus. Our Warehouse Team Members play a crucial role in preparing the orders that sustain our business, ensuring safety and accuracy in every task. Top performers can earn up to $26.28 an hour plus incentives, and we provide a generous sign-on bonus of up to $2,500. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and strong union benefits, among others. We pride ourselves on having a stellar local leadership team and being recognized as one of the best places to work. The main ingredients of the job include safely and accurately selecting customer orders, building and wrapping pallets to meet weekly standards for productivity and accuracy, and performing pre-shift equipment checks. You will be responsible for operating an electric pallet jack, moving products from racks to pallets as directed by order selecting software, and validating that the correct product has been selected and is damage-free. Efficiently delivering products to the correct dock area and shrink-wrapping palletized orders is also part of your responsibilities. Teamwork is essential, as you will collaborate with others to clear aisles of debris and return pallet jacks to the charging area. This position requires working in a multi-temperature environment, ranging from -5 degrees to over 100 degrees, and the ability to lift, carry, push, or pull 20 to 80+ lbs. of product repetitively, moving over 2,000 cases of product during each shift. You should be able to work 8+ hour night shifts, typically from Sunday to Thursday, with occasional weekends and holidays required. Recent experience in a physically demanding role, such as lifting/transferring patients, sports/fitness, farming, or construction work, is preferred, along with experience in selecting large-scale orders in a warehouse or distribution center environment and operating motorized pallet jacks or similar equipment.
Responsibilities
- Safely and accurately select customer orders.
- Build and wrap pallets to meet weekly standards for productivity and accuracy.
- Perform pre-shift equipment checks and safely operate an electric pallet jack.
- Carefully move products from racks to pallets directed by order selecting software and equipment.
- Validate that correct product has been selected and is damage-free.
- Efficiently deliver products to the correct dock area and shrink-wrap palletized orders.
- Team up to clear aisles of debris and stack empty pallets from slots in the aisle.
- Return pallet jacks to the charging area.
Requirements
- Warehouse experience is required.
- Experience with pallet jacks is preferred.
- Experience in a distribution center environment is preferred.
- Ability to work in a multi-temperature environment ranging from -5 degrees to over 100 degrees is required.
- Ability to lift/carry/push/pull 20 to 80+ lbs. of product repetitively is required.
- Recent experience in high endurance or highly physical activity or role preferred.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience selecting large scale orders in a warehouse or distribution center environment preferred.
- Experience operating motorized pallet jack or similar equipment preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Vision insurance
- Union benefits
- Life insurance
