Rug Gallery Material Handler

** Rug Gallery Material Handler**

**Job Category****:** Floor Design **Requisition Number****:** RUGGA01276 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

We are looking for a reliable Material Handler to help maintain our Rug Gallery and assist in fulfilling orders. The Rug Gallery Material Handler will be responsible for unloading product deliveries, staging products based on customer orders and assisting with organizing and maintaining existing inventory. The Rug Gallery Material Handler will perform the manual labor involved in the daily operations of running The Rug Gallery. The Rug Gallery Material Handler must have the ability to lift 100+ lbs. and work well in both a team or independent setting.

**Essential Functions and responsibilities**

* Perform the manual labor needed throughout the sales process dropping, flipping, and moving rugs - or any other manual task needed to assist with and complete a sale ( i.e. moving wood samples, furniture pieces, etc). This includes assisting gallery managers, sales associates, and customers.

* Ensure the Rug Gallery is neat and presentable at all times this includes rehanging dropped rugs in a timely manner, moving displays and hanging new inventory, returning samples to their designated spot, cleaning/vacuuming, etc.

* Manage daily transfers of sold product. This includes printing paperwork, pulling product, preparing it for shipment, and cutting rug pad.

* Manage inventory of both rugs and rug pads. This includes unloading rug pads when they arrive from the DC and cycle scanning as needed.

* Receive shipments of new product in an efficient and timely manner.

* This position requires flexibility to cover all necessary areas of focus as they are needed. You may switch from one task to the other throughout the day, but at the end of the day all tasks must be completed

**Competencies and working conditions**

* ***Minimum*** ***Reasoning*** ability associated with this classification

+ Ability to apply logical thinking and job knowledge to responsibly handle practical situations.

+ Ability to comprehend and respond to a variety of situations in an expedient manner.

+ May work independently so good judgment is essential.

* ***Minimum Math*** ability usually associated with this classification:

+ Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills required to measure and cut rug pads.

* ***Minimum*** ***Language*** ability usually associated with this classification:

+ Read: High School level.

+ Write: High School level.

+ Speak: Ability to be conversant in voice and diction so as to participate in discussions with customers, associates, supervisors, and management both in person, via radio and telephone.

* ***Degree*** ***of Physical Demands*** (strength) usually associated with this classification:

+ **Must be able to lift and carry objects weighing 100+ lbs.**

+ Ability to kneel, stand, walk, hold and lift, possibly for extended periods of time while performing these functions in a continuous sequence during the work day.

* ***Type of*** ***Physical Demands*** usually associated with the classification:

+ This position receives daily instruction from supervisory and/or management personnel which include communicating job functions, and giving instructions during training procedures.

+ It is necessary to be able to communicate in person, via radio, and telephone

- *Talking-expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words.*

- *Hearing-perceiving nature by sounds by ear.*

- *Reaching - extending the hands(s) and arm(s) in any direction.*

- *Handling - seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands.*

- *Fingering picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily, rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling.*

- *Lifting ability to lift up to 150 pounds.*

* ***Environmental Conditions*** (Physical Surroundings) usually associated with this classification:

+ The worker is subject to inside and outside environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions, while inside, but not necessarily from temperature changes. Outside conditions are any and all weather conditions including temperatures, precipitation, humidity, and other meteorological factors and fluctuations thereof.

* ***Machines, Tools, Equipment, and Work Aids*** which may be representative, but not all inclusive, of those commonly associated with this type of work:

+ Scanners, calculators, hand trucks, utility knives, safety belts, computers, printers, and ladders.

* ***Emotional Demands***:

+ The worker must possess sufficient emotional resilience to operate within a sometimes hectic environment involving simultaneous priorities, rapid response situations, irate customers, and generally chaotic situations.

+ The worker must therefore be even-tempered, cool minded, and exhibit a high threshold for frustration.

**Preferred Experience**

* 1-2 years work experience in a retail environment.

* 1-2 years material handling experience.

* Rug or furniture experience a plus, not a requirements

**Physical requirements**

- Load and unload incoming and outgoing materials and products.

- Move materials to and from loading docks, delivery trucks, storage areas, and within various showrooms on the Furnitureland South campus.

- Identify and label materials and record their locations in the rug gallery/on the shelves to maintain inventory.

- Prepare finished products for shipment by identifying their location, then pulling, packing, and loading them.

- Ability to climb and work on a 10 ft latter.

- Comply with all safety rules and guidelines.

- Ability to stand or walk for extended periods of time; ability to bend and to lift heavy materials.

- Ability to operate hand trucks, scanners, printers, computers, and measuring equipment.

- Willingness to work flexible hours, including overtime and weekends as needed.

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