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Join CDW as a Warehouse Associate where you'll play a vital role in the operations team responsible for picking and packing products efficiently while ensuring quality control.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include picking, packing, and processing items, maintaining conveyor flow, loading trailers, and performing quality checks on products.

Skills: Required skills include the ability to lift up to 50 lbs, excellent organization, attention to detail, and solid verbal communication skills.

Qualifications: High School Degree or GED is required; previous warehouse experience and forklift certification are preferred.

Location: The job is located in Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA.

Compensation: $16 - $22 / Hourly

Description

At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.

Job Summary

As a pick-pack coworker, you are part of a broader Operations Team helping to deliver on promises to our coworkers and customers. You are responsible for picking, packing and/or processing pick/pack items, speed picks, single item orders, chip cage items and picking and/or processing ready-ship items as well as picking, and/or processing orders for the Configuration and Enterprise areas. You are also responsible for loading the outbound trailers using a brick-method of stacking and LTL items.

What you’ll do

• Pick and process pick/pack, speed picks and ready ship product using a handheld RF scanner or voice-picking (WDC only), including placing non-conveyable product in designated areas for pick up.
• Maintain conveyor flow by keeping the conveyors and sensors clear.
• Pack boxes using bubbles or other packing material to ensure a secure shipment.
• Place non-conveyable products in designated areas for pick-up.
• Inspect boxes and products for visible damage before shipment, including ensuring proper size and fit and correct if necessary, including inspecting fragile items for proper over-packing with bubble bags.
• Manually load trailers in freight area while correctly verifying and matching shipping labels to carrier trucks.
• Notify management of problem boxes or situations to ensure a swift resolution.
• Maintain supplies for the area, including but not limited to: filling the bubble machine media and making or requesting additional boxes.
• Ensure utilization of transport totes for smaller boxes.
• Quality control check boxes from weight variance and troubleshooting lanes.
• Housekeeping – placing garbage, boxes, popcorn, bubble wrap in the dumpsters and always keeping the area clean.
• Lift and carry up to 50 lbs. occasionally and up to 40 lbs. frequently with or without assistance (team lifting is encouraged for items weighing over 50 lbs.).
• Perform 8 or more hours of standing, walking, bending, lifting, and carrying products in combination at any given time.
• Forklift Drivers must be able to perform 6 or more hours of operating a forklift.
• Utilize a pallet-jack to move product or skids for picking or processing.
• Rotate throughout the Shipping Department performing various shipping functions and may be asked to rotate to other job functions in the warehouse, including cross-department functions, for training and operational purposes.

What we expect of you

• High School Degree or GED.
• Demonstrated ability to perform 8 or more hours of standing, walking, bending, lifting, and carrying products in combination at any given time.
• Demonstrated ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Accurate counting ability.
• Excellent organizational skills with critical attention to detail.
• Solid verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage changing warehouse temperatures and a high noise level.

Preferred skills, experience, and qualities needed

• Previous warehouse experience.
• Forklift certification.

Pay range: $16.35/hour-$22.12/hour depending on experience and skill set

Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/

Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials

We make technology work so people can do great things.  

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive.

CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law. 

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