Warehouse Associate I- 1st Shift - Onsite, Romeoville, IL

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

The Warehouse Associate is responsible for the timely and accurate picking, packing, over-labeling, kits building and shipping of all customer orders. In some areas, minor set-up and equipment operation may be required.

SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday 6:00am -2:30 pm. Overtime, including Saturday and Sunday, may be required.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Picking

• Pick items accurately to customer orders.

• Escalate inventory inaccuracies to inventory control team.

• Restock supplies as needed

Packaging

• Pack quality products according to standard work and regulation set by compliance department, ensuring quality product is safely delivered to customer.

• Pack hazardous and non-hazardous orders according to pick ticket instructions.

• Audit and inspect orders before staging and shipping.  Audits include checking for proper labeling and verifying that the documents match the cartons packed.

• Escalate inventory inaccuracies to inventory control. 

• Investigate aged and missing orders.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• High School Diploma or GED required. 

• Prior distribution experience preferred

• Ability to read, write, and speak English is required. Bilingual language skills is a plus

• Some areas will require the ability to work with manual and/or power equipment.

• Proficient in oral and written communication skills

• Proficient in using computers for data entry and utilizing Microsoft Office programs

ENVIRONMENT

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 occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is constantly required to sit. The employee may occasionally squat, turn/twist, or reach.  The employee is constantly using hands to: finger, handle, feel or operate objects, and computer keyboards. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk, hear, and smell.

The employee must frequently lift, carry, push or pull up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift, carry, push or pull up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be subjected to moving mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures and work space restrictions.

The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud.

Employees will be required to wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) which may include: eye, hearing and respiratory protection, protective smock, steel toe shoe