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Warehouse Person

PepsiCo, Petoskey, MI, United States


PBNA $25.20 / hour

This labor-intensive position involves hand building pallets of product for bulk and route trucks. Each type of loading requires strict attention to order accuracy, loading outgoing trucks, and unloading incoming trucks. The role uses an electronic order system or order sheets to build loads using a forklift and/or electronic pallet jack. Accurate loading and compliance with shipper/receiver documentation are essential. Employees must maintain a clean and safe work environment and may work across a wide variety of weather conditions. Shift durations vary daily based on workload.

Transport truck loading involves moving full pallets of products from the warehouse onto a trailer and removing returned pallets or plastic flats. The loader also unloads raw materials into designated warehouse space.

Bulk truck loading requires selecting designated packages and flavors of products from the warehouse, loading them onto a pallet, ensuring the pallet’s stability through proper stacking and shrink-wrapping, and loading the pallet onto a trailer for local delivery. Unloading returned products and pallets or plastic flats is also required.

Route truck loading involves selecting designated packages or pallets of products from the warehouse and loading them into the truck, customized based on the salesperson’s order. The loader also unloads returned products and pallets or plastic flats.

The position requires lifting a high volume of cases of product daily (20–45 lbs per case) repeatedly during long work periods. The role involves constant standing, walking, bending, twisting, squatting, reaching, and grasping to move product.

Primary Job Accountabilities

Drive a power pallet jack or forklift to the picking area and build pallet/load per load sheet or voice pick audio equipment (if applicable)

Mark load ticket for out-of-stock items

Wrap pallet when pallet/load is finished

Turn in paperwork with order for check before loading and have truck checked

Stage pallet and/or load into truck when ready

Complete partial pallets and put away mixed pallets

Maintain proper housekeeping standards in work area

Regular, reliable, predictable attendance

Basic Qualifications

18 years or older

Helpful Experience

Experience working in a warehouse environment (e.g., order selector/picking, product storage, product staging, powered pallet jack/forklifts)

Driving a forklift (basic operations such as driving forwards and backwards, lifting and lowering boom, maneuvering in tight areas without damaging product)

Working with racking systems and loading/unloading pallets (pulling and placing pallets on/off vertical product racking systems and trucks, maximizing storage by stacking products vertically)

Experience working in a team environment (cooperating with co‑workers, joint problem solving)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female, Minority, Disability, Protected Veteran, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity.

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