Job Title:  Dock Worker

Department: Sanitation

Reports To: Site Supervisor

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Summary A dock worker primarily loads, unloads, and stores cargo from ships and trucks, operating machinery like walk or ride behinds. Key responsibilities include inspecting goods for damage, ensuring proper labeling, maintaining the workplace, and coordinating logistics with other transport staff. This may be a physically demanding role requiring strength and stamina, and workers must adhere to strict safety protocols and may be required to obtain specific equipment operation licenses. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Ability to help customers dropping off or picking up freight at our dock by using a pallet jack
• Documenting overages, shortages and damages
• Handling freight
• General cleaning of the Dock to include restrooms, break rooms and other shared common areas, dusting, trash removal, spot cleaning of walls and other surfaces, cleaning stair and rails, emptying recycle bins,
• Spot cleaning of floor areas
• Some lifting required
• Ability to follow Health & Safety and Company policies 
• Loading/Unloading freight and splitting your time in the office with administrative duties

Work Environment

The environment is a spacious warehouse.  

Team-Oriented

Workers collaborate with a team, including crane operators, truck drivers, and supervisors. 

Indoors and Outdoors

Depending on the specific duties, work may occur in both covered and open-air areas of the warehouse. 

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Reliable and hard working
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Must have positive attitude and good safety awareness
• Self-directed and able to work without supervision
• Energetic and eager to tackle new projects and ideas

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.