Materials Handling Worker

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About the Position

The Materials Handling Worker is responsible for unloading product deliveries, staging products based on customer orders, and assisting with organizing and maintaining existing inventory. This position provides hygienic items, food, and writing materials to inmates to include supplies mandated by theHart vs. Hillruling.

About the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office:

Do you possess integrity, strong interpersonal skills, and do you have a desire to serve your community? The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) invites you to become part of Arizona's leading law enforcement agency. We are seeking passionate individuals to join our team with a variety of openings for Civilian, Detention and Sworn personnel. We come together as a team to support and provide public safety. We are OneMCSO - become one with us!

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

We recognize your time is valuable, so please apply if you meet the following required qualifications:

Education

• High school diploma or GED.

Experience

• One (1) year of warehouse or inventory control experience.

OR

Combined education and experience qualifications

• Post-secondary education may substitute for the experience requirement on a year for year basis.

Other requirements

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain by the time of hire a valid Arizona driver's license.
• Training that may be provided on-the-job: FEMA NIMS - IS100 and 700; Safety; Payroll; PREA.
• Prior to hiring, the Sheriff's Office requires that all candidates pass an extensive background review.

Our Preferred Candidate has

• Two (2) years of warehouse or inventory control experience.

Working conditions
Work occurs indoors and outdoors in an active warehouse/correctional environment. Tasks require manual dexterity and ability to lift 50 pounds. Position requires teamwork, working in close physical proximity with others, including working inmates, in a frequently dangerous environment. This is a 24/7 operation with frequent overtime and rotating shifts.

The following environments described are only representative of how the essential job tasks are currently performed or envisioned. As such, in order to accommodate a disability or limitation, the essential job tasks may be performed in ways other than described on these pages.

Work Environment:

• Indoors, outdoors
• High noise level
• Conditions frequently include dim or bright lighting, confined areas, stairs or ladders
• Rarely in temperatures above 90 degrees or below 40 degrees
• Conditions may rarely include chemical/fumes, smoke/dust, wet/damp area, exposure to contagious diseases

Physical Environment:

• Sitting, standing, walking
• Driving a vehicle
• Speaking, hearing, seeing, reading
• Distinguishing colors
• Bending/kneeling, reaching, twisting, climbing
• Crouching, balancing
• Wearing protective gear
• Precise dexterity
• Lifting floor to waist fifty (50) pounds
• Lifting waist to shoulder fifty (50) pounds
• Lifting shoulder to overhead fifty (50) pounds
• Carrying a weight of forty (40) pounds for a distance of 30 feet
• Pushing/pulling a weight of three hundred (300) pounds for a distance of 1000 feet
• Lifting or moving a weight of more than 50 pounds requires the use of equipment such as pallet jack

Social Environment:

• Constant interruptions
• Time pressures
• Accuracy
• Concentration, vigilance
• Teamwork
• Working in close proximity with others
• Conditions frequently include high volume of work, unscheduled tasks, frequently changing tasks, overtime/rotating shifts, dangerous environment
• Conditions may rarely include handling multiple and complicated tasks, decision making, isolation, emergencies, traumatic subject matter

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Knowledge of:

• Phone/email etiquette.
• Standard office practices and procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files, data entry and processing.
• Transport logistics and scheduling.

Skill in:

• Operating various office machines.
• Performing routine maintenance on equipment.
• Assessing equipment maintenance needs and troubleshooting causes of operating errors.

Ability to:

• Communicate effectively in verbal and written format as appropriate for the audience.
• Establish and maintain successful working relationships.
• Interpret and explain rules and regulations.
• Provide leadership and guidance to others.
• Work independently and prioritize tasks.
• Provide excellent customer service.

ESSENTIAL JOB TASKS:

• Collects inmate canteen orders from all jail facilities.
• Processes tank orders, returns, refunds, and grievances.
• Provides assistance with loading and unloading supplies.
• Distributes orders directly to inmates in jail facilities.
• Trains, instructs, and directs working inmates during production to assist with inmate productivity.
• Prepares daily production.
• Assists detention staff with transporting working inmates as needed.
• Compiles data and prepares monthly inventories
• Takes receipt of deliveries and performs general warehouse related duties.
• Places orders with authorized vendors.
• Operates recycling equipment including compactor and bailer.
• Performs data entry of inmate orders into computer database.
• Loads/unloads delivery trucks and notifies supervisor of any discrepancies.
• Packs/unpacks items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms and warehouse.
• Stores items in orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
• Performs other tasks as assigned by Inmate Canteen Supervisors.
• Work in a production line setting filling commissary orders.
• Be present at work site to perform tasks as scheduled and/or assigned by supervisor.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:

The hiring authority will select the successful candidate based on departmental needs.

All offers of employment made to new hires and rehires at Maricopa County are contingent upon successful completion of a post-offer, pre-employment thorough background investigation. A background investigation is conducted on a current employee who changes to a Safety Sensitive Position or one having the potential for serious adverse impact on the integrity or efficiency of the County. These requirements do not pertain to employees of elected officials who undergo background investigation processes administered through their respective offices.

Typically successful candidates are hired at a salary rate, up to midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience, internal equity and budgetary allowances.

Selection Procedure

• Only the most qualified candidates will be considered

• Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications

• Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile

• Must pass a pre-employment background and/or fingerprint investigation as required by statute or policy, including drug and alcohol testing requirements for positions designated as safety-sensitive

Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer.

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