Warehouse Associate - Jaipur Living : Job Details

Job DetailsLevelEntryJob LocationCorporate Headquarters - Acworth, GASalary Range$17.00 HourlyTravel PercentageNoneJob ShiftAnyDescription Let goodness, fairness and most importantly, love prevail in business; profits will inevitably follow. - NK Chaudhary, founderJaipur Living is a socially conscious luxury brand with a passion for people, products, and design. A differentiated challenger brand, Jaipur Living is known for its beautiful rugs and textiles. Jaipur Living products can be found in the finest homes, and the company prides itself in providing only the highest quality products, a transparent and ethical supply chain, and a distinctively thoughtful customer experience, with personalized support and custom offerings.Headquartered in a northwestern suburb of Atlanta, Jaipur Living designs, manufactures, and distributes rugs and other textiles through its extensive network of high-end interior designers and design firms, national retailers, and third-party ecommerce partners. The company continues to grow rapidly, experiencing double-digit annual growth every year for the past decade. This growth can be attributed to the care Jaipur Living puts not only in their customers, but their employees as well. Employees at Jaipur Living are encouraged to collaborate, think independently, and stretch the creative process to develop new ways of marketing and distributing their products around the world. In August 2022, the company opened a new studio adjacent to its headquarters that, at over 17,000 square feet, functions as a communal space for design professionals to visit to experience Jaipur Living's products. The studio encapsules not only our beautiful product but also ways Jaipur makes lives beautiful through The Jaipur Rugs Foundation.What we do for our team members:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Company Paid Holidays, PTO, Parental Involvement Leave, Maturity/Paternity Leave, EAP, No Cost Employee Medical Plan, Vision, Dental, and Company Paid Life Insurance. We also include a match on retirement (401K/Roth).
• Career Development: We're committed to providing growth for career development within the company, supporting our team members' aspirations with a well-defined succession plan that includes a variety of training and development opportunities.
• Wellness Support: Not only do we support an active lifestyle with our on-site basketball court and yoga studio, but we host quarterly mental health events to assist in creating a well-rounded work-life harmony for our team members.
• Sustainability Efforts: Reuse, Renew, and Refresh by joining our Green Team! Responsible for harvesting from the organic community garden, donating goods to local pet shelters and schools, creating educational workshops, leading nature walks, and much more, they promote well-being through sustainable practices.

Our Values Empowerment •Inclusiveness •Responsibility •ProgressiveLearn more about our company story here: The Jaipur Rugs Foundation Since 2004, the Jaipur Rugs Foundation has worked to improve the lives of rug-weaving artisans in India. This is done through training, skills development, and social interventions. By focusing on the ideas and solutions that create social value, the Foundation supports the dignity and heritage of these traditional artisans, believing that healthy and sustainable communities are key to the survival of traditional rug weaving. Jaipur Living has made ethical and socially conscious global citizenship the foundation of its business. Through social initiatives and the Jaipur Rugs Foundation, the company supports a supplier ecosystem without a middleman of more than 40,000 artisans in 700 villages across India by providing them with a livable wage, access to health care, leadership education, and opportunities for personal growth and development. Combining time-honored techniques and of-the-moment trends, every Jaipur Living product is as ethically and responsibly made as it is beautiful.OverviewThe Warehouse Associate responsibilities include storing materials, picking, packing and scanning orders. Examines inventory, records damaged items and completes necessary paperwork for restocking. The goal is to increase efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction.Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Adhere to safety standards to perform activities
• Operates handling equipment and ensures safety regulations are followed
• Ensures warehouse goals are met
• Receive, put away, pick, pack, cycle count and re-stock product
• Process, package and ship orders accurately
• Pick rugs utilizing a handheld scanner (rugs can weigh anywhere from 6 lbs 140 lbs; heavier rugs are picked with the help of an associate)
• Receive, unload and place incoming inventory items appropriately
• Put rugs away in the proper bins for inventory accuracy
• Organize stock and maintain inventory
• Collaborate with Product Development for quality control checks on stock
• Inspect products for defects and damages. Records damaged items and moves them accordingly
• Examine ingoing and outgoing shipments
• Maintains catalog request making sure they go out in a timely manner
• Keep warehouse clean and organized daily

Skills & Minimum Qualifications:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• High school diploma or equivalent education
• Previous warehouse experience
• Coordination, organization, planning and time management
• Ability to lift 50+ pounds.
• Ability to operate Order Picker forklift around warehouse, Ability to receive, put away, pick, pack, cycle count and re-stock product up to 25 feet height.
• Adaptability; flexible to shifting priorities and a changing environment
• Must be computer literate; NAV experience is a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Remaining in a seated position for long periods of time
• Standing is to remain on one's feet in an upright position without moving about
• The ability to alternate between sitting and standing is present when a worker has the flexibility to choose between sitting or standing as needed when this need cannot be accommodated by schedules breaks and/or lunch period
• Lifting and transporting items that could weight up to 50 pounds
• Entering text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work to impart oral information to clients and talent and convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately and quickly
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds such as in person and telephone
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to take directional cues directly and indirectly.

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 is exposed to outside weather conditions
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Employment at Jaipur Living is contingent on the completion of a criminal background check and a drug screen, with the results being negative. Jaipur employees are subject to pre-employment, post-injury, post-accident, reasonable suspicion and random testing for illegal drug usage. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of this position at any time.