Utility Associate Production Support

Nashville, TN

The purpose of this position is to keep the work area clean and organized for a smooth workflow in support of the production team. If you have forklift experience, enjoy customer interaction and would like to work for a growing company that promotes sustainability while offering competitive pay and excellent benefits, we invite you to apply now! 

Responsibilities include: 

  • Assess workflow and inventory: Empty trash, remove empty carts and replace with full carts as needed by production team, move discards to baling area. 
  • Processing: Keep back lot clean of debris. Process furniture to designated areas.
  • Customer Engagement: Provide customers with fast, friendly and courteous service. Respond to customer's questions and take initiative to find answers. 
  • Maintain cleanliness and organization of the work area for safety and efficient production; provide our customers and team members with a hazard free environment.
  • Regularly support production in processing targets as assigned by production manager and review results and discusses opportunity improvements

Traits and Requirements:

  • Must have forklift experience
  • Must pass drug test and background check
  • Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail
  • Eye-hand coordination to sort, grasp, color coordinate, and tag
  • Ability to read and write

Physical Skill Requirements:

  • Lifting and Carrying up to 50 lbs.
  • Pushing and pulling 100-200 lbs. or force
  • Standing 80% of the time
  • Repetitive use of hands-80% of the time
  • Reaching overhead-20% of the time
  • Pushing and pulling-50% of the time
  • Bending and crouching-70% of the time
  • Grasping items with hands -90% of the time

Working Conditions:

  • Exposure to dust-ongoing continual basis
  • Exposure to temperature fluctuations periodically
  • Exposure to weather
  • Flexible with scheduling changes due to store needs and sales events
  • May require overtime on occasion due to store needs

This job description is not to be construed as a complete statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.