Warehouse Associate

**Description**:
Responsible for preparing, processing shipments of Franklin Water Treatment products, receiving product, handling and processing of warehouse work orders, purchase orders, and sales orders; transporting inventory; and maintaining stock in warehouse. Maintains a clean, organized, and efficient warehouse.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Prepares and reviews for accuracy all bills of lading on shipments.
- Routes orders to meet the company’s and customers’ requirements.
- Tracks and expedites outbound shipments with carriers. Schedules truck line and other carrier pickups and distribution.
- Maintains records such as (but not limited to) invoices and vendor receipts. Verifies shippers’ rates and resolve issues.
- Processes normal and special shipments.
- Coordinates inventory and participates in physical inventories.
- Safely drives and operates forklift.
- Ensure orders are pulled and shipped correctly.
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility in work environment performing a variety of frequently changing tasks.
- Provides accurate work on a consistent basis meeting precise tolerances and standards.
- Interpersonal skills sufficient to work closely with others on a team.
- Performs other related duties as required or assigned.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Must be able to read, write, and communicate effectively in French and English.
- Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, the general public, and other employees of the organization.
- Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information.
- Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides numbers (using currency and other forms of measurement).
- Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
- Deals with problems involving several known variables in situations of routine nature.
- Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work.
- Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree.
- Completes some moderately repetitive tasks.
- Uses noncomplex machines and equipment (adding machines, calculators, copy/fax machines, etc.).

**Education and Experience**
- High School Diploma or Equivalent (preferred).

**Certificates and Licenses**
- Forklift training and certification will be provided.

**PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES**
- While performing the functions of this job, the employee is:

- Continually_ required to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 10 lbs.; and grip with hand or fingers.
- _Regularly _required to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50lbs.; push or pull; sit; bend or twist; stoop or crouch; reach above shoulders; reach to full extension; activate foot control.
- _Occasionally _required to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 100lbs.; stand; walk; ascend or descend ladders, stairs, or ramps; use upper extremities.
- The employee must continually lift or move 10lbs.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include regular peripheral viewing; viewing length changes; close viewing with occasional accurate depth perception and distance viewing.
- Specific hearing abilities required by this job include the need to perceive the spoken voice clearly and the need to hear warning signals up to 70dbs with or without assistance.
- Specific speech abilities regularly required by this job include comprehensible speech.
- The company will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations._

**About Franklin Electric**: