Warehouse

Job Title: Warehouse Associate I Job Description The Warehouse Associate I plays a key role in ensuring the efficient, accurate, and safe movement of products within a fast-paced warehouse environment. Working under direct supervision, this role focuses on receiving, inspecting, organizing, and shipping products while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and teamwork. The position involves hands-on, physically demanding work and requires strong attention to detail, reliable performance, and a collaborative attitude.

Responsibilities Unload, organize, and perform quality inspections on incoming products to ensure they meet company standards. Update inventory records accurately and consistently in accordance with company policies. Locate, pick, inspect, and load products for customer orders, ensuring precise order fulfillment. Assemble tire and wheel packages, including proper mounting and balancing to meet customer specifications.

Apply tire studs, shave, or heat cycle tires as required by specific customer requests. Handle and inspect returned products, update inventory, and process returns following established procedures. Pick and deliver products for onsite customer pick-up and will-call, ensuring timely and accurate service. Operate material handling equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, order pickers, turrets, and other warehouse machinery while strictly following safety guidelines.

Maintain clean, organized, and tidy workspaces and comply with required personal protective equipment (PPE) and all safety protocols. Complete training on advanced product knowledge, safety practices, and conduct policies as outlined in the employee handbook. Accurately read labels and product information, and organize items by order type, tire type (such as regular or run-flat), and other specifications.

Use RF scanners and physical product checks to cross-reference labels and ensure correct categorization and order accuracy. Identify and correct discrepancies in order fulfillment, taking proactive steps to resolve issues. Support teammates and offer assistance to promote a collaborative, team-oriented work environment. Perform physically demanding tasks throughout the shift, including lifting, rolling, stacking, and organizing heavier or bulkier items.

In the Order Picking area, pick tires from rack locations, place them onto pallets, and maintain an average productivity of approximately 850 pieces per day. In the Shipping Department, check in tires, verify order accuracy, tape and band tires together for shipment, and maintain high levels of attention to detail and productivity. In the Mount and Balance Department, mount tires onto wheels, balance assemblies, and package completed orders to meet quality and accuracy standards.

Essential Skills Ability to accurately read, identify, label, and organize products to ensure precise order fulfillment. Comfort operating warehouse equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, order pickers, turrets, and other material handling tools. Strong attention to detail when checking in tires, verifying orders, taping and banding tires, and packaging completed assemblies. Capability to perform repetitive, physical work, including lifting, rolling, stacking, and moving materials throughout the shift.

Dependable work habits with the ability to maintain a steady, consistent pace while meeting productivity expectations. Ability to manage assigned tasks efficiently so products are received, stored, and shipped in a timely manner. Willingness to collaborate with colleagues, assist team members, and contribute to a positive, team-oriented work environment. Commitment to following safety guidelines, using required PPE, and operating equipment safely at all times.

Basic manufacturing, assembly, warehouse, and material handling skills related to lifting, moving, and organizing inventory. Ability to categorize products by order type, tire type (including regular and run-flat), and other specifications such