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Warehouse Associate/Selector ($21.50-$28.00 w/ Incentives)

Job Category: Warehouse
Requisition Number: WAREH001699
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Posting Details

    • Posted: May 2, 2025
  • Full-Time
  • Rate: $21.50 USD per hour
  • Locations

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    Cloquet Warehouse

    801 Industry Ave

    Cloquet, MN 55720, USA
    Cloquet Warehouse

    801 Industry Ave

    Cloquet, MN 55720, USA
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Job Details

Description

!Position eligible for a $1000 hiring bonus!

SUMMARY:

Utilizes Powered Industrial Equipment to unload, receive, store, replenish, select, and load product onto trailers in a warehouse setting.  Keeps warehouse clean and safe when shortfalls are observed.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Unloads and depalletizes product off trailers.
  • Receives product into inventory.
  • Transports product to stow locations and puts away.
  • Replenishes product to pick locations.
  • Selects product to build orders according to assigned load tickets.
  • Apply stretch wrap to secure product on the pallet.
  • Loads product onto trailers to ensure safe transport.
  • Ensure accurate transactions to maintain inventory control.
  • Operate a powered pallet jack or lift product.
  • Operate a forklift and other equipment associated with warehouse operations.
  • Ensure neat/clean environment in compliance with Company Safety and Sanitation requirements and discarding materials in the proper manner.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and company policies and procedures.
  • Responsible for meeting productivity requirements.
  • Safely operate all the necessary equipment in the work area.
  • Utilize computer system to receive incoming & process outgoing orders.
  • Establishes and maintains effective work relationships within the department, the Company, and the community; and maintains the professional competence, knowledge, and skill necessary for the satisfactory performance of all assigned responsibilities.
  • Poses no direct threat to the health or safety of himself/herself, of others, or to property. Defined as a significant risk of substantial harm that cannot be eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level by reasonable accommodation.
  • Requires regular attendance to perform essential element as contained herein between the assigned start and end times for work.
  • Performs such individual assignments as management may direct.
  • Sunday-Thursday 7:00PM-3:00AM

 

 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Education

  • High School Diploma or Equivalent

Experience

  • 1-3 months’ experience in a warehouse setting

Skills

  • Ability to pass the Lift Truck Operator Training Course test.
  • Ability to read, write, speak English.
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 1 year experience on a stand-up reach truck 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION & WORKING CONDITIONS:

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and taste and smell.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and /or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, and extreme cold. The noise level in the workplace environment is usually loud.  Requires the ability to work in freezer, cooler and dry conditions for a long period of time.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

ABOUT UPPER LAKES FOODS

Upper Lakes Foods, Inc. is the largest independent, wholesale food distributor in Minnesota.  The company has three facilities located in Cloquet, MN, Northfield, MN and Janesville, WI.  We distribute food throughout the Upper Midwest.  Upper Lakes Foods specializes in serving foodservice operators such as independent restaurants, assisted living facilities, schools, and national and regional foodservice chain accounts with a strong focus on customer service. Simply put, the mission is to build value for each customer, employee, supplier and community we serve by bringing the best; the best products, best people and best ideas.

 

CORE VALUES

  • Strong Work Ethic – We believe in the value of hard work, perseverance and consistency of character.
  • Positive Attitude – We believe in encouraging a flexible, agreeable and well-adjusted work existence that promotes successful outcomes.
  • Integrity – We believe in honesty, truthfulness and consistency of our actions.
  • Team Work – We believe that work done by several individuals combined insures excellence of quality, safety and service.
  • Professional Appearance – We believe in maintaining an appearance that promotes good hygiene, neatness and appropriate business dress.
  • Respectful Interaction – We believe in creating a workplace where employees are treated fairly in a safe and positive environment.

 

“We are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.”

Qualifications

Education

Required

High School or better.


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