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Are you a motivated, experienced shipping associate looking for a day-shift job with a dynamic team and plenty of opportunities to earn additional money through overtime hours and continued professional development? Villari Foods is currently seeking hard-working, disciplined individuals with previous forklift training to join our day-shift team. While the physical work environment is cold (our warehouse is kept at freezer temperatures for the preservation of the meat), our Shipping Department provides a warm opportunity for continuous development, cross-training, and promotion from within the company.
Primary job duties of our Shipping Associates include shipping and receiving, checking products, and inventory control. If you have experience as a forklift operator and/or warehouse training, are an effective communicator that can work independently and coordinate with others, and enjoy a warehouse work environment, apply today! Jobs start immediately.
A Material Handler with a Stand-Up Reach Truck is responsible for moving, storing, and retrieving inventory at elevated heights in a warehouse using specialized narrow-aisle lifting equipment.
Core Responsibilities:
Operate Reach Trucks: Safely drive and maneuver stand-up reach trucks in tight aisles and work comfortably at elevated rack heights.
Material Movement: Load, unload, stage, and move pallets.
Equipment Maintenance: Perform daily pre-shift and post-shift safety inspections on the reach truck (checking brakes, steering, hydraulics, and battery charging).
Warehouse Safety & Housekeeping: Maintain a clean work area, manage shrink-wrapping or banding, and follow OSHA and facility safety guidelines.
To qualify for this job you must have:
High School Diploma or GED
6 months to 1 year of experience operating a stand-up reach truck or powered industrial truck (PIV).
Experience with stand-up lifts and riding pallets jacks
Flexibility with work hours, in general
Have strong attention to detail
Have good arithmetic (adding, subtracting, and multiplication) and English language reading skills
Understand and follow verbal and written instruction
Punctual with great attendance
Ability to satisfy physical requirements (see below)
What Villari Foods offers you:
Competitive compensation
Opportunity to earn overtime hours
Medical
401K
Paid Vacation Days and Holidays
Employee Discounts on Villari Meat Products
Opportunities for employee recognition
Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods Group!
Employment with a great team and a highly experienced supervisor
How Villari Foods is different:
As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.
The experience each employee has working at Villari is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.
Physical requirements and work environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉ (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals Villari does provide cold-weather gear!
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud
Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
Able to drive a registered motor vehicle to satisfy daily requirements
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity
Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery
Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach and pull
Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.
We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, antibiotic/hormone/steroid -free, and organic. And we’re well known for our smoked products.
As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.
EEO Statement:
Villari Food Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.
Worksite address
warsaw, NC, 28398, US
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