Warehouse Associate

Warehouse Associate

Reports To: Warehouse Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Pay: $17-20/hr 
Full Time 

Location: Charleston, SC


SUMMARY: The Warehouse Associate supports daily operations in a moving,
storage, and furniture/design warehouse. This role is responsible for safely
handling, storing, and preparing furniture, artwork, décor, and household goods
for delivery, installation, or long‑term storage. Attention to detail, care in handling
high‑value items, and teamwork are essential.
Warehouse Associate is responsible for supporting daily warehouse operations,
including receiving, storing, handling, and preparing goods for shipment. This role
requires attention to detail, physical stamina, and a commitment to safety and
accuracy.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• • Receive, inspect, and document incoming furniture, décor, artwork, and household goods
• • Accurately inventory items and assign correct storage locations
• • Wrap, pad, crate, and prepare items for storage, delivery, or installation
• • Pull items for scheduled deliveries, moves, or designer installations
• • Load and unload trucks while ensuring proper protection of items
• • Assist movers and installation teams with staging and job preparation
• • Identify and report damages, discrepancies, or special handling needs
• • Maintain accurate inventory records, tags, labels, and paperwork
• • Keep the warehouse clean, organized, and compliant with safety standards
• • Follow handling instructions for fragile, oversized, or high‑value items
• • Support special projects such as furniture returns, client viewings, or vendor pickups
• • Assist with special projects, deliveries, or installations as needed

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 - High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) required; previous warehouse, inventory, or logistics experience preferred; furniture or interior design industry experience a plus.
• • Language Skills –Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from management, and staff. Ability to effectively present information to management and staff.  Ability to interact clearly and effectively, in both written and oral communication, with supervisor and staff, etc.
• • Computer Skills - To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient in basic personal computer skills including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, etc. This role requires the ability to operate ERP system, resolve minor IT issues and/or be able to coordinate with IT support.  

COMPETENCIES:

• • Communication - Displays a very quick grasp of the significance of information communicated and nearly always initiates or respond to communications in an appropriate, timely and comprehensive manner. Displays skill in reducing complex information to simple forms and helping others to understand that information.
• • Organization - Effectively juggles multiple projects. Anticipates potential problems and develops excellent contingency plans. Keeps information and files clearly organized. Successfully pulls many unconnected things together. Defines the resources necessary and get them from where available.
• • Teamwork - Demonstrates specific skills by usually anticipating information people need to know to do their jobs, resolving conflicts, fostering integrity and trust, and listening to bring a joint action by a number of people to achieve a desired result.
• • Time Management - Master of multi-tasking. Manages time so well that can attend to many different activities in a day, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. Carefully plans activities so is always working efficiently and never wastes time doing unnecessary tasks. Rarely takes up less important work until priority tasks are completed. Consistently uses time efficiently and effectively.  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms; frequently required to climb or balance, talk or hear; and occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. They must be able to walk forward, backward, and side to side while carrying furniture. Specific vision abilities required for the duties of this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. They will frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds on a regular basis and operate moving equipment. They must be able to exchange accurate information with other individuals. Must be able to detect mechanical issues and part defects from short distances to determine what action needs to be taken. The individual must be capable of transporting various parts and tools required to do the job.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.