Warehouse General Laborer

Job Description

Overview

What You’ll Do:

 

· Assist with loading and unloading cargo from vessels, trucks

· Support inventory counts, tagging, and documentation

· Work closely with checkers, operators, and dock supervisors

· Follow all safety protocols and terminal procedures

 


Qualifications

What you will Need:

 

• Must have the ability to read, write, and speak basic English.

• Must have the ability to function effectively in a fast paced, team-oriented work environment.

• Must have the ability to work independently with limited supervision and strong initiative.

• Must have the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees.

• Must have the ability to think logically, follow procedures, instructions and make sound decisions.

 

 


Responsibilities

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:

 

• Employee is required to perform an abundance of physical manual labor.

• Must be able to work within enclosed/confined spaces, in noisy environments with moving equipment and in adverse climatic conditions.

• The employee is constantly required to stand, reach forward, balance, handle objects, operate controls and

perform simple and firm hand grasping including twisting and pinching.

• The employee is frequently required to squat, stoop, crouch, kneel, and reach overhead.

• The employee must frequently pull up to 130 pounds, push, pull and lift up to 110 pounds and carry up to 55 pounds.

• The employee is occasionally required to sit (while being lifted in basket), crawl, grasp, exercise eye-hand

coordination, exercise repetitive wrist motion.

• The employee is required to talk and hear.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.