Warehouse Associate

Join the Carolina Cat Team

As a family-owned company under our third generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.

Since 1926, we’ve supported our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce and by donating our time and resources to area nonprofits. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that’s built to last.

We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.

Collectively, our employees work together to make a difference for our customers, our communities, and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with Carolina Cat.

Summary

Ensures a high level of customer satisfaction through various tasks and assignments. 

Essential Functions

• Accurately pull parts orders and package the order for shipment. Finish all orders from the day and use quality control process to ensure accuracy.
• Assist customers in person and over the phone and give great service while helping them.
• Assemble hydraulic hoses for internal and external customers.
• Move freight to designated staging area and prepare for the arrival of shuttle trucks.
• Print backorder paperwork and review to ensure parts get to their correct destination.
• Assist shuttle drivers with unloading and consolidation of freight.
• Receive in parts back orders from the Atlanta shuttle and place all parts orders in their designated location whether it be will-call, drop, or shop hold bin.
• Utilizes a Personal Computer, specifically DBSi applications, to perform different warehouse functions.
• Perform general housekeeping duties as assigned.
• Promote safety through own work habits.
• Works to ensure departmental compliance with all safety and contamination control guidelines.
• If noticed, this individual needs to report to supervisor any conditions that do not meet OSHA or Company standards.
• Other duties as assigned 

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities. 

Qualifications 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions. 

Education and/or Experience

• Self-Motivated
• Customer Service Attitude
• Have problem solving abilities
• Warehouse experience preferred
• Must have High School Diploma, or GED
• Must read, write, communicate in English as it relates to this job and safety regulations
• Must meet the ergonomic and physical requirements, as well as the physical base scores for this position
• Must have a valid driver’s license
• Must complete the in-house forklift-training program 

Computer Skills

• Basic computer knowledge and skills
• Must have basic keyboarding skills 

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. 

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, percentages and ability to perform these operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. 

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Physical Demands 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.  Employee must operate equipment in a safe manner. 

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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