Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to learn, work, and thrive in all aspects of life.
To achieve our vision, we are committed to dismantling racism and advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion so we can help people reach their fullest potential through our education, job placement, and career pathway services. We do our work with great gratitude for the community donations, purchases, and partnerships that make our mission possible.
Right now our Central Production Team in Tacoma, WA store is seeking a Full Time Router!
Hourly Rate: $17.13 Per Hour
Position Summary: Routers are responsible for the process of collection, transporting, and sorting of donated merchandise in the production department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The Router responsibilities include the following and other duties as assigned:
- Provides a smooth flow of goods to the production workstations
- Reacts with urgency to determine production needs and adapts quickly to changing business conditions
- Tickets items for sale by attaching price ticket to item
- Places items on or in appropriate transport container safely and labels correctly
- Monitors and reports supply needs to supervisor
- Assists the supervisor with training of employees and clients and performs quality control evaluations
- Ensures the area stays clean, well-organized and safe
- Assists the production department
- Maintains receiving and delivery shipping logs
- Maintains safety standards as provided by the Production Supervisor
Product Quality Assurance
- Inspect, clean, and repair items to be priced and placed on the sales floor.
Product Sorting
- Unloads sacks, boxes, and miscellaneous donated items from trucks into donation carts and transports them to proper processing workstation or storage areas.
Record Keeping
- Assists with tracking and recording daily production, donor and shipping/receiving records.
Qualifications/Basic Job Requirements:
- High School diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred but not required
- 1 -- 3 months of related experience and/or training
- 1 year of forklift experience highly desired
- Exceptional analytical, judgment, decision-making and communications skills
- Superior coaching, leadership and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build understanding and concensus
We Have You Covered! Benefits Offered:
- M/V/D & Life Insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Vacation (1-4 Years: 80 hours annually)
- 10 paid Holidays annually
- 8 days prorated sick leave annually
- Access to Childcare Benefits through Upwards
- Parental leave covered by sick/vacation hours
- All employees receive merchandise discounts
- We strongly believe in promoting from within, and have multiple avenues for career growth
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Language Skills: Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
Mathematical Skills: Not required for this position.
Computer Skills: Not required for this position.
Other Skills and Abilities: Comprehensive understanding of all aspects of a Router.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Not required for this position.
Other Qualifications: Self-motivated; resourceful, creative; high integrity; problem solver; looks to resolve issues; positive can-do approach; and ability to build effective working relationships.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear and type. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Goodwill gladly considers requests for accommodation and, if the requested accommodation is reasonable, will make such reasonable accommodations as will enable an otherwise qualified person with a disability to perform the essential functions of this position.
At Goodwill we are committed to creating and sustaining a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. We embrace our employees' differences, and believe in meeting the members of our workforce and their communities where they are. Since our doors first opened in 1921, we have been changing lives by offering a hand up, not a hand out. We invite you to join us for our next 100 years of service to our neighbors.
Our Mission is to help people reach their fullest potential through individual education, job placement and career pathway services made possible by community donations, purchases and partnerships.
At Goodwill, we welcome people with diverse backgrounds, including persons with disabilities or other disadvantages. In fact, a substantial portion of our employees have a disability and/or economic disadvantage and we strongly encourage such persons to apply. This organization participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a service that verifies authorization to work in the U.S. through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Social Security (SSA). For further information on E-Verify contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.
Skills Required
- High school diploma or GED
- 1–3 months of related experience and/or training
- 1 year of forklift experience
- Exceptional analytical, judgment, decision-making, and communication skills
- Coaching, leadership, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to build understanding and consensus
- Ability to speak effectively before customers or employees
- Ability to lift or move up to 40 pounds occasionally
- Ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation
What We Do
Goodwill is a nonprofit community organization and a leader in the thrift retail industry. It strives to realize a vision where every person has the opportunity to learn, work, and thrive in all aspects of life. By providing training and support, Goodwill helps thousands of people annually gain skills, secure jobs, and build thriving livelihoods, while also promoting environmental sustainability through reuse and recycling.
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