Package Handler

**Primary Job Posting Location**:
Owen Sound, Ontario Canada

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**Position Summary**:
The Package Handler’s position is a physical fast-paced and labor-intensive role within a warehouse environment that involves sorting/stocking packages as well as loading and unloading them into and out of UPS package delivery vehicles and trailers.

**Job Type**:Part-Time - Permanent

**Work Location**:3225 East Bayshore Road, Owen Sound, ON N4K 5N3

**Workdays**:Monday through Friday

**Shift Start**:5:00 PM Shift averages 3-5 hours a day **(Start times/finish times may vary with operational need. Flexibility required) **

**Pay rate**: $17.30/hr.

**_ ** APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO WORK UP TO 25 HOURS PER WEEK**_**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Load and unload packages into package delivery vehicles and trailers
- Learn and properly execute company-established package handling methods
- Sort and stock packages based on postal codes

**Qualifications / Requirements**:

- Ability to lift up to 70 lbs. (32kg) without assistance
- Full availability to work Monday to Friday (all five days of the week)
- Must be able to work 25 hours per week legally
- Ability to read and memorize postal codes
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and physically demanding environment
- Comfortable working inside truck trailers and package delivery vehicles
- Warehouse experience - Preferred

**Compensation and Benefits**:

- Pay rate of $17.30/hr.
- Automatic pay rate progression as per the existing Union Collective Agreement (top rate: $27.01/hr. after 48 months)
- Paid training
- Weekly Pay/Direct Deposit Every Friday
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $2,000 per semester
- Personal Paid Days off (after 60’s days initial probation)
- 2 weeks of paid vacation after 1 year of service (3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 10 years, 5 weeks after 20 years, 6 weeks after 25 weeks)
- Extended Health Care Benefits (Vision, health, and dental benefits after one year of service)
- Immediate access to UPS ‘Employee Discounts’
- Free Onsite Parking
- Employee Referral Bonus Program (conditions applied)
- Opportunity for advancement within a Fortune 50 Company

**Working Conditions**:

- Monthly union dues (approximately $52/month)
- A union initiation fee of $50 (will be deducted after completing 90 working days with UPS)
- Exposed to changing temperatures while working in a warehouse environment.

**Of Note**: In our industry, this position is also known as Warehouse Worker Warehouse Associate Sorter Loader/Unloader and Shipper/Receiver.