Warehouse Shipping and Receiving Associate
Safeway Garage Doors, Inc., Tempe, AZ, United States
Position Summary
These positions are responsible for moving, stacking, and loading all SWD products into trailers, box trucks, or trucks for shipment. This position requires the use of forklifts, pallet jacks, carts, and racking. The role is physically demanding and involves frequent lifting and maneuvering. Quality is paramount: ensuring that products shipped are correct and damage‑free is essential to job success.
Essential Job Functions
Level I – Loader
Pull/Push product carts from the warehouse floor to the dock for loading.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Load “verified” doors, sections, products, and miscellaneous items by hand into a semi‑trailer according to the shipment load list.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Secure all loads by shimming the product with foam or placing load bars or poles.
Recognize alphabet and numbers.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Level II – Spotter
Spot trailers for the day that need to be loaded.
Instruct team members on where and what needs to be staged for loading the trailer for the route.
Once the product has been verified, instruct the members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly.
Has knowledge of capacity planning of trailer or box truck.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Level III – Team Lead
Verify product by using load lists and/or scanner.
Follow the route loading order determined by the supervisor.
Once the product has been verified, instruct team members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly.
Practice correct shipping procedures.
Report issues, quality, or safety to the supervisor.
Basic computer knowledge, ERP software, closing shipments, and creating documents for shipments.
Communicates with the office team, customer service team, procurement team, and managers.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Preferred: High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
Competencies
Quality:
Attentive to detail and accuracy, committed to excellence, continuously seeks improvements, monitors quality levels, investigates root causes, and takes ownership of quality issues.
Sense of Urgency:
Prioritizes well, displays energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, and meets deadlines.
Vision & Values:
Supports values and daily actions and decisions, communicates vision and values to others, generates enthusiasm, and incorporates vision when planning.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Forklift certificate – required for levels II & III; preferred for level I.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to perform the essential functions of this position successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. The employee must regularly stand, walk, sit, squat, kneel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, including lifting overhead. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works with moving mechanical parts, is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and operates in a moderate noise level environment.
Other
This job description is not exhaustive. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by authorized individuals. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and may be modified to accommodate individuals with disabilities. This document does not constitute an employment contract and the employment relationship is at‑will.
Job Type
Full‑time
Benefits
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Work Location
In person
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These positions are responsible for moving, stacking, and loading all SWD products into trailers, box trucks, or trucks for shipment. This position requires the use of forklifts, pallet jacks, carts, and racking. The role is physically demanding and involves frequent lifting and maneuvering. Quality is paramount: ensuring that products shipped are correct and damage‑free is essential to job success.
Essential Job Functions
Level I – Loader
Pull/Push product carts from the warehouse floor to the dock for loading.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Load “verified” doors, sections, products, and miscellaneous items by hand into a semi‑trailer according to the shipment load list.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Secure all loads by shimming the product with foam or placing load bars or poles.
Recognize alphabet and numbers.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Level II – Spotter
Spot trailers for the day that need to be loaded.
Instruct team members on where and what needs to be staged for loading the trailer for the route.
Once the product has been verified, instruct the members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly.
Has knowledge of capacity planning of trailer or box truck.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Level III – Team Lead
Verify product by using load lists and/or scanner.
Follow the route loading order determined by the supervisor.
Once the product has been verified, instruct team members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product.
Use hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products.
Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies.
Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly.
Practice correct shipping procedures.
Report issues, quality, or safety to the supervisor.
Basic computer knowledge, ERP software, closing shipments, and creating documents for shipments.
Communicates with the office team, customer service team, procurement team, and managers.
Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area.
Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Preferred: High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
Competencies
Quality:
Attentive to detail and accuracy, committed to excellence, continuously seeks improvements, monitors quality levels, investigates root causes, and takes ownership of quality issues.
Sense of Urgency:
Prioritizes well, displays energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, and meets deadlines.
Vision & Values:
Supports values and daily actions and decisions, communicates vision and values to others, generates enthusiasm, and incorporates vision when planning.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Forklift certificate – required for levels II & III; preferred for level I.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to perform the essential functions of this position successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. The employee must regularly stand, walk, sit, squat, kneel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, including lifting overhead. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works with moving mechanical parts, is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and operates in a moderate noise level environment.
Other
This job description is not exhaustive. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by authorized individuals. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and may be modified to accommodate individuals with disabilities. This document does not constitute an employment contract and the employment relationship is at‑will.
Job Type
Full‑time
Benefits
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Work Location
In person
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