Warehouse Associate

Job Summary:

This hands-on role involves loading and unloading shipments, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring the safety and cleanliness of the warehouse. This is a fast-paced environment requiring physical stamina, attention to detail, and a strong team-oriented mindset.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Key Duties and Responsibilities

As a Warehouse Associate, you will be responsible for loading and unloading storage containers and shipments with care and precision. This includes properly wrapping and securing furniture and household goods to ensure items remain in excellent condition during storage or transit. You will also be tasked with inspecting inbound freight and taking detailed exceptions to accurately document the condition of items upon arrival.

A critical part of your role involves maintaining a safe, clean, and organized warehouse environment. This includes regular sweeping, general facility upkeep, and ensuring equipment is operated safely and efficiently. You will help handle high-volume weight loads - ranging from 80,000 to 100,000 lbs. daily in the summer, and 30,000 to 40,000 lbs. in the winter - requiring physical stamina and consistent teamwork.

You’ll work closely with van operators, operations staff, service providers, and customers to ensure smooth coordination and high-quality service. Accurate recordkeeping and neat, legible paperwork are essential, as is a willingness to assist with local or short notice moves based on the day's workload. Flexibility, clear communication, and a customer-first attitude are key to your success in this role.

Additional duties may be assigned depending on your warehouse, the time of year, and the needs of your team. Above all, though, you are expected to contribute to a positive and professional work environment. Your role directly impacts our ability to reduce claims and deliver exceptional customer experience, and you’ll receive training designed to help you meet these standards every day.

Required Experience/Skills:

Education/Work Experience:

• No school/work experience is required. Just a willingness to learn and work hard

Skills:

• Punctual
• Customer Focused
• Collaborative
• Communicative
• Resilient
• Strive for inclusion of others
• Professional and trustworthy

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Heavy lifting and carrying: Ability to regularly lift, carry, load, and unload furniture, household goods, and storage items, while handling high-volume weight loads.
• Loading and unloading: Ability to repeatedly load and unload storage containers and shipments, including wrapping, securing, and positioning heavy items.
• Standing, walking, and physical stamina: Ability to remain on your feet and move around the warehouse for extended periods while handling physically demanding workloads.
• Bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, and pulling: Ability to perform frequent physical movements when handling furniture, wrapping items, sweeping, organizing, and maintaining the facility.
• Working in varying warehouse conditions: Ability to safely work in warehouse environments with changing temperatures, high-volume activity, and physically demanding conditions while operating or working around warehouse equipment.

About Hilldrup

Hilldrup is one of the largest and most honored agency groups in the entire industry, operating facilities in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Comprised of over 500 employees, Hilldrup moves professionals, families and businesses domestically and internationally as well as provides logistics and workplace solutions services to meet the needs of its clients, which includes Fortune 100 companies, federal government agencies, universities and hospitals.

Among the over 500 employees at Hilldrup, it is not uncommon to meet someone who has been with the company 10, 20 or even 30 years. Hilldrup is an award-winning workplace where employees feel valued, are encouraged to grow professionally and are empowered to build lasting careers.

Our values are very important to the organization as they guide our employees and company in all that we do each day. Our values include Empowered Accountability, Uncompromised Integrity, Unwavering Commitment, Fearless Communication, Infectious Positivity, and Purposeful Agility.

For more information about Hilldrup, click here: hilldrup.com/about-us/.

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Hilldrup is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities