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Transportation & Warehouse Coordinator

Overflow Thrift Store
locationAmes, IA, USA
PublishedPublished: 6/14/2022

Job Description

Job DescriptionSalary: $18 - $20 / hour

Transportation & Warehouse Coordinator

Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Transportation & Warehouse Coordinator

REPORTS TO:

Sr. Operations Director / Store Operations Directors

TIME COMMITMENT:
Full-time (30 - 40 hours / week); will consider candidates preferring Part-time Plus (30+ hours / week)

Position Summary: The Coordinator will support retail operations at Overflow Thrift Stores by transporting product between the store locations, coordinating baling operations, leading furniture pick-ups and deliveries, assisting with furniture storage and display, assisting customers to accept and process merchandise donations, and other duties in Overflows processing area as directed.

General Expectations of All Overflow Staff

  1. Culture
    1. Actively support and live out the Overflow Mission and Core Values
    2. Affirm and align with the statements and policies in the Overflow employee handbook while representing Overflow.
    3. Strive to display Gods love to other staff, volunteers, customers, and donors
    4. Demonstrate an ability to thrive in a flexible, physically-active, fast-paced and growth-oriented environment, while maintaining a positive, solution-oriented attitude
  2. Reliability/Accountability
    1. Follow attendance procedures; arrive to the building with enough time to allow for storing personal items, filling personal drinks, greeting team mates, etc., and be ready to start work when clocking in on time (at the time scheduled to begin work)
    2. Adhere to Overflow Handbook, policies and procedures
    3. Demonstrate excellent productivity in tasks and throughout shift
    4. Work with diligence and focus when clocked in - for example:
      1. seek out tasks to complete - discuss with team mates or Directors about priority tasks; look for cleaning, tidying and stocking tasks to complete, especially when working at the registers
      2. refrain from personal cell phone use, eating, personal shopping, and other personal entertainment activities (socializing, reading, games, etc.)
      3. complete shift breaks and meal breaks within allotted time (15 minutes / 30 minutes)
  3. Teamwork/Cooperation
    1. Serve as a positive colleague or team member
    2. Adapt to daily needs and changing plans
    3. Maintain productive working relationships
  4. Communication
    1. Speak and/or write effectively, listen carefully, and clarify information when necessary
    2. Provide complete, accurate and truthful updates to supervisor
    3. Reflect values in written and verbal communication - Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness & Self-Control; Assume positive intent
    4. Interact with everyone with kindness

In summary, Overflow teammates are expected to have a teachable spirit, to actively work to maintain unity on the team, and demonstrate respect for OTS policies, leadership, volunteers, and fellow staff members. We seek to communicate openly and honestly with one another, accepting responsibility for words and actions, striving to speak only that which edifies.

Position Key Responsibilities

  1. Transport inventory between stores
  2. Manage pick-ups and deliveries for furniture and other merchandise
    1. Communicate efficiently with all donors and customers
    2. Assure an excellent experience for customers, donors and volunteers
    3. Confirm weekly pick-up and delivery schedule
    4. Coordinate with furniture volunteer team
    5. Call donors when unexpected delays/cancellations occur
  3. Manage recycling operations
    1. Operate baler to create textile and stuffed animal bales
    2. Move bales to exterior containers for storage
    3. Assist with movement of bales to wholesaler trucks
    4. Move other recycled materials (metal, glass, furniture, etc.) through designated channels (to other recycling partners and centers)
  4. Operate Overflow equipment, including forklift and baler, in accordance with guidelines and annual training
    1. Complete regular equipment safety checklists, as directed
    2. Complete annual training, as directed
    3. Report repair and equipment issues to Senior Operations Director
  5. Maintain truck and equipment
    1. Complete monthly truck safety checklist
    2. Partner with Senior OD to coordinate any regular or one-time maintenance on truck
    3. Keep gas tank filled to at least half tank at all times
  6. Help process and stock inventory
    1. Process incoming merchandise, including accepting items from donors, pricing items, stocking the sales floor at all store locations, and other items as requested
    2. Process and stock furniture in collaboration with the Senior Operations Director and Store Operations Directors
  7. Serve as an ambassador to OTS volunteers - creating an environment of appreciation for our volunteers while supporting volunteers to achieve the OTS mission
  1. Collaborate with volunteers on assigned work priorities
  2. Communicate with volunteers with kindness, respect and appreciation
  3. Participate in planned volunteer trainings, groups, and appreciation as scheduled
  4. Utilize training and pricing guides for volunteer onboarding, as directed

Position Requirements

  1. Commitment and adherence to Overflows Values
  2. High School diploma
  3. Ability to independently lift 51 pounds and 100+ pounds in a team lift occasionally
  4. Maintain a clear driving record with no moving violations
  5. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with continuous standing, bending, carrying, squatting, pulling, and pushing
    1. This is a physically-active role - Manager should expect to be standing and moving 95% of their shifts. The work includes moving furniture and heavy carts, cleaning merchandise, assembling small furniture, fixtures and equipment, moving boxes and merchandise repeatedly, pushing heavy carts, moving displays, etc.
  6. Ability to work outside for brief periods in all weather on a variety of tasks such as assisting donors as they remove items from their vehicles, removing trash from the store to exterior dumpsters, helping customers with furniture pick-ups, light shoveling of snow from sidewalks, tidying building exteriors by picking up trash, etc.

PURPOSE:

Overflow is a community effort to care for people in need, locally and globally, through recycling and reselling clean, affordable goods.

VALUES:

Demonstrate the Fruit of the Spirit * Be Servant-Minded * Be Adaptable & Flexible * Empower Creativity * Be Inviting and Responsive

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