Shipping Loader- Overnight Shift

Job Description

Overnight Shift: 5:00pm- 3:30am

4 days a week, 10-hour Shifts

Branch out with a warehouse career at Family Dollar!

We are looking for industrial athletes to join our amazing warehouse team! As a warehouse associate, you’ll get to make a difference in a fast-paced, automated distribution center. Join us - You’ll be proud to work for a successful, stable, growing Fortune 135 Company that is 100% committed to the safety of its Associates, helps families live lives better, and serves our communities in this time of need.

Excellent Total Compensation Package for Our Distribution Center Associates!

• Opportunities to earn extra pay through incentive pay
• Full-time positions available
• Close to I-10, take exit 340
• General Warehouse Associate
• Our warehouse benefit package is one of the best in the industry!
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), annual merit increases, discounted stock purchase plan, parental leaves and employee assistance program.

Dollar Tree/Family Dollar is an equal opportunity employer


General Summary:

Selects merchandise within set quality and engineered standards in order to service stores in a cost effective, safe and timely manner.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Ensures the correct batch is selected by signing out store orders and verifying batch numbers with the Sign Out Clerk or through voice picking on headset, if applicable.
2. Focuses on labels to select from correct location in order to provide the stores with the correct merchandise ordered.
3. Ensures labels are placed properly on merchandise in order to be scanned properly.
4. Achieves set standards (engineered or productivity) on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
5. Effectively communicates shorts, damages, jams and anticipated shorts to the Sign Out Clerk in order to deliver merchandise to the Shipping department in a timely manner.
6. Ensures damaged merchandise is handled through the proper procedures.
7. Completes daily P.I.T. checklist to ensure equipment is working properly and reports any defect to management and/or maintenance.
8. Operates P.I.T. equipment in a safe manner.
9. Follows set safety procedures and guidelines to maximize personal safety.
10. Maintains an organized work area and promotes a safe working environment within the Bulk department.
11. Follows all Company policies and procedures.
12. All other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

Education: None
Experience: Four to six months Retail Distribution Center or Warehouse Environment experience preferred.
Physical Requirements: Able to perform essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation. These tasks require the ability to repetitively lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 80 pounds. The Team Member should have adequate fitness level to meet the demands of frequent lifting, walking, standing, moderate climbing of stairs, occasional sitting, stooping and kneeling with or without reasonable accommodation. May be required to operate P.I.T. equipment. Team Member will be required to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per Distribution Center requirements.
Working Conditions: Team Member will work in a non-climate controlled Distribution or Warehouse atmosphere, in which outside weather conditions greatly affect the building’s temperature although fans and heaters are used. Team Member may also be exposed to or work in a restricted space, fumes and airborne particles as regulated by OSHA. Associates may normally be exposed to and required to perform the handling, packaging, processing, storage, disposal or transport of hazardous materials, the operation of a motor vehicle, palletized equipment, machinery or power tools, repairing, maintaining or monitoring the performance or operation of any equipment, where the malfunction or disruption of which could result in injury or property damage, the operation, maintenance or oversight of infrastructure including, but not limited to, electric, gas, and water utilities, power generation or distribution and the extraction, compression, processing, handling, packaging, storage, disposal, treatment or transport of potentially volatile, flammable, combustible chemicals.
Availability: Team Member will perform shift work and must be willing to work overtime, weekends and/or holidays.

Critical Skills
Communication Skills: Must be able to effectively communicate with co-workers and management team.
Organizing: Organizes and structures own time effectively. Works systematically and plans things in advance.
Physically Capable: Has the necessary hand and motor skills needed to perform essential work activities.
Problem Solving: Identifies problems and finds solutions to them. Isolates problem areas and uses appropriate techniques to solve them.
Quality Conscious: Is committed to achieving and maintaining high standards. Ensures own work is correct.
Reliable: Consistent and dependable. Follows supervisors’ instructions. Respects Company policies and procedures.
Safety Conscious: Does not put self or others at risk of injury. Must be aware of personal responsibility in safety of themselves and others and acts accordingly.
Stress Tolerant: Remains controlled in the face of workplace pressure.
Strong Organization Skills: Able to perform multiple activities successfully; establishes clear goals and objectives and is effective at managing time/priorities.
Team Work: Works effectively with others and cooperates with colleagues.



By submitting my application to Dollar Tree, I authorize Dollar Tree to communicate with me by transmitting SMS/text messages and transmitting prerecorded messages related to my application and/or employment to the telephone number(s) provided in my application, or by emailing me to the email address used to transmit my application or by the email address provided in my application.

Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are Equal Opportunity employers.