Dock Material Handler - 2nd Shift Job at Penske in Plainfield

Job Overview

Schedule: 2nd Shift - Monday - Friday 6:00 PM - 2:30 AM
Compensation: $21.85 per hour + $1.00 shift differential - totaling $22.85 per hour

Benefits: Our excellent benefits plan keeps associates and their families happy, healthy, and secure. To learn more visit https://penske.jobs/benefits/

Additional Benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401K
• Associate Referral Program
• $125 Boot Allowance, following 90-days of employment (Where applicable)

Our associates also enjoy numerous associate discounts and opportunities to grow with the organization!

Both shifts are provided two timed breaks and a 30-minute timed lunch that is built into the schedule. Steel toe shoes and safety vests are required on the warehouse floor for your protection. As part of this team, you will be sorting loose cartons of auto parts by label, sorted cartons, cages, gaylords, loose parts and staging them in area-specific lanes, with scanning integrated into our loading process. We prioritize your safety with monthly safety ergonomic training, and we enforce a 7-point attendance policy to ensure reliability and accountability.

Job Responsibilities

• Fast paced and physically demanding
• Follow all safety requirements
• Stage and sort products for loading
• Loads and unloads trailers manually
• Sorts and places parts in racks or other designated areas
• Stacks cardboard boxes and pallets
• Move materials within the warehouse
• May operate hand pallet jack
• Scan freights/parts

Qualifications

• No prior warehouse experience required but preferred
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred
• Proficient reading skills and ability to follow directions required
• Ability to work independently, customer service, dealing with others, multi-tasking skills, organizational skills, flexible, excellent with numbers and time management skills required
• Flexible to work overtime preferred
• Ability to work in non-climate-controlled conditions required
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Ability to work independently, customer service, multi-tasking skills, organizational skills, flexible, and time management skills required
• Willingness to work the required schedule, work at the specific location required
• Complete a Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening required.

Physical Requirements

Note: The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The associate will be required to remember and understand certain instructions, guidelines, or other information. The associate must be able to see and verbally communicate. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The associate will be required to move frequently, stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50lbs/23kg and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100lbs/45kg.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.