Job Description

Job Location: Springfield Dirksen Store - Springfield, IL 62702
Position Type: Full TimeEducation
Level: None
Salary Range: $16.50 - $16.50 Hourly

Travel Percentage: None
Job Shift: Mon thru Fri
Job Category: Retail
Our Mission: Providing people with the skills and resources to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
Our Vision: Elevate people through the power of work and continue to be a leader in environmental sustainability.
Our Values: SERVE: Stewardship | Engagement | Respect | Visibility | Elevation
Job Title:                 Material Handler I
Department:          Retail Operations/Warehouse
Reports To:             Warehouse and Sustainability Manager
Classification:        Non-Exempt
EEO-1 Category:    Service Workers
Safety Sensitive:    Yes
Authorized Driver:     No
Supervises:                N/A
Job

Summary
Moves, processes, ships, receives, and controls raw donations, salvage and/or recycling inventory and stored inventory. Opportunity for forklift authorization may arise and could lead to added compensation.
Essential Job Duties
- Coordinate and expedite the flow of donated goods between the processing, storage, dock areas and salvage.
- Assist team in providing required materials for production.
- Process and control inventory following established procedures.
- Load and unload tractor trailers with donated goods.
- Operate a baler, and lift tables in accordance with OSHA and LLGI standards.
- Perform janitorial duties.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area including assisting with trash and salvage removal.
- Participates in required training.
- Effectively manage time to ensure that work is completed.
- Contributes to team success by involving others in work processes, decisions and actions.
- Monitors and recognizes security risks and thefts and assists in their prevention.
- Ensure that the customer’s perspective is a driving force behind customer satisfaction.
- Seek to understand the customer’s circumstances, problems, expectations and needs.
- Identify customer service issues and create solutions.
- Build customer awareness around our mission.
- Identify and correct conditions that affect employee and customer safety.
- Comply with safety standards.
- Identify opportunities, generate ideas to improve warehouse and salvage objectives.
- Initiates action to maintain daily warehouse and salvage goals.
- Partner with all Retail players to identify, assess, create and implement process improvement.
- Embrace the values, vision and mission of LLGI.
- Initiate action to accomplish objectives and be proactive.
- Seek to understand individual differences and values to build workplace relationships.
- Learn and apply new job-related information in a timely manner.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.

QualificationsCompetencies
Adaptability               Managing Conflict                  Stress Tolerance
Communication         Tenacity                               Urgency
Education, Experience, and Credentials
- Requires basic math skills.
- Requires ability to analyze a situation, recognize potential issues before they arise and recommend appropriate solutions
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Demonstrates the ability to be consistently at work and on time on scheduled work days.
- Conveys information clearly through verbal communication.
- Works independently while fostering a strong team atmosphere.
- Interacts with people in a manner which enhances their dignity, privacy and confidentiality.
- Requires knowledge of and ability to follow all LLGI policies and procedures.
- Maintains confidentiality of information related to LLGI operations.
- Demonstrates professionalism.
-  Conveys information clearly through verbal communication.
- Requires ability to maintain confidentiality of information related to LLGI operations, financial matters and personnel matters.
- Requires ability to interact with individuals in a manner which enhances their dignity, privacy and confidentiality.
- Promotes diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.
- Demonstrates sensitivity and the ability to communicate with a diverse population.
- Embraces the mission, vision and values of LLGI.
- Works independently while fostering a strong team atmosphere.
- Requires ability to demonstrate professionalism.
Physical Requirements
- Lifts or moves up to fifty (50) pounds of clothing and housewares safely on and off retail shelving fixtures up to ten (10) feet high, clothing racks four (4) feet high, and z-racks six (6) feet high.
- Requires ability to stand for extended periods.
- Requires ability to reach by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
- Pushes and pulls z-racks holding up to one-hundred (100) pieces of clothing and weighing a minimum of 150 pounds.
- Bends and reaches into gaylords five (5) feet high to remove clothing and housewares.
- Requires ability to use pallet jack with loads ranging from 100 to 700 pounds safely.
- Requires ability to perform a combination of tasks such as stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting, reaching, carrying, pushing or pulling objects.
- Requires visual and hearing ability sufficient to power equipment in a safe manner.
Environmental Conditions
- Works in a light industrial/warehouse environment with exposure to heat and cold
- Subject to exposure to allergens including dirt, dust, mold, metals, rubber, plastics, latex, and pet hair
- Requires visual acuity to work in an environment with changing and/or low light levels.
Tools and Equipment
Trailers, baler, bale carts, lift table, pallet jack, stacker, scales, compactor, wheeled spring carts, wheeled deep carts, wheeled z-racks, 2 wheel dollies (hand truck), 4 wheel flat carts, material lifts, furniture dollies, trash bin/can, trash dumpster, personal protective equipment, basic tools of the assigned work area, phone / two way radio, computer, fax, photocopier, mops, mop buckets, brooms, dust pans, vacuums, cleaning solvents.
Regular Contacts
LLGI Staff                             Volunteers/ Community Service Workers         Transport Company
Vendors/ Suppliers                Donors/Customers