Warehouse Logistics Coordinator

POSITION: Warehouse/Logistics Coordinator

CLASSIFICATION: Full time – 40 hours, non-exempt

REPORTS TO: Logistics Manager

SALARY: $28-31/hour

WORK SCHEDULE: Tuesday-Saturday. 8am-4:30pm

ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION

A Sense of Home strives (ASOH) to prevent homelessness by creating first-ever homes and a community for youth aging out of foster care. 50% of those struggling with homelessness are former foster youth. The homeless crisis can only end through prevention.

POSITION PURPOSE

ASOH is in a phase of growth with plans to expand both regionally and nationally. The Logistics Coordinator will be instrumental in enabling this growth with respect to current programs in Los Angeles. The Warehouse Associate, directly reporting to the Logistics Manager, will be responsible for supporting with loading and unloading furniture and home goods in the warehouse, warehouse inventory and organization, and transporting items to and from the warehouse.

DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION

ASOH is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and strongly encourages people of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those with protected class backgrounds to apply. We value the individuals that we hire and look forward to creating a positive work environment for all identities.

OUR COMMITMENT

We are committed to not only provide a diverse and inclusive workplace, but we value the health and wellbeing of our team members. ASOH offers 100% paid health and medical benefits to employees, along with generous paid sick and sick vacation time. We also believe in providing a workplace that fosters advancement and professional development for all employees, conducting our day-to-day business practices accordingly.

HISTORY AND CONTEXT

ASOH began as a random act of kindness, when the founders Georgie Smith and Melissa Goddard saw an injustice and acted upon it. They noticed that young people exiting foster care had overcome the odds against them, achieved securing a roof over their heads, only to be forced to sleep on cold bare floors, and struggle without fridges, stoves, lighting, a table to eat from nor study off of. The lack of means to make a space a home is a significant inequity that has proven to hold back those working and studying hard to overcome the challenges of the world and create a better future for themselves. Since then, ASOH has grown into a caring community of skilled staff and dedicated volunteers, providing much needed resources to over 375 former foster youth and their children annually.

A UNIQUE SPACE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING AND HEALING FOR ALL

We are committed to action for impact and won’t stop learning, listening, growing and serving. We are committed to evolving our work and model to ensuring we always:

• Evolve how we achieve our goals and deepen the impact
• Listen to those we serve
• Partner with organizations that uplift marginalized communities
• Find and implement new tools in our programs that overcome unique barriers to healing
• Amplify more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) voices
• Ensure a safe, inclusive, diverse workplace for employees, volunteers, donors, and those we serve භ Integrate social justice and public health scholars in the development of our organization

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Logistic Coordinator is responsible for supporting and leading with all warehouse activities including receiving incoming furniture and home good donations, managing warehouse inventory, warehouse organization, loading and unloading the truck at the warehouse, building furniture and logistics lead at home creation events. This role will also support and lead with volunteer activities, driving the truck to transport, pick up, or drop off furniture and home goods, and ensuring safety both in the warehouse and at organization events. More specifically, the Logistics Coordinator will be responsible for:

• Receiving, inventory and putting away incoming donations in the warehouse (furniture and home goods)
• Building furniture
• Loading and Unloading Trucks
• Driving 15 ft. trucks to and from events
• Assist volunteers with furniture building, and assembly at the warehouse and at events, ensuring safety
• Participating in the monthly Inventory meeting and supporting with the biweekly low inventory report
• Support with the bi-annual inventory count
• Responsible for ensuring warehouse organization is maintained weekly
• Pick up of large donations from corporate partners
• Attend and lead at other organization events
• Truck maintenance including fuel, service, etc.
• Logistic lead at weekly events. This will include, assisting volunteers with moving furniture to the unit, cleaning, hanging curtain rod brackets, disassembling furniture that doesn’t fit through doors, building furniture and guiding staff/volunteers ensuring safety.
• Preparing furniture and other home goods for delivery, shipment and loading.
• Handle warehouse upkeep and expansion (including building shelving, light housekeeping, trash removal, and other relevant tasks)
• Manage warehouse in the absence of the Logistics Manager
• Ensure work trucks get washed and cleaned monthly
• May need to come in earlier at the discretion of the Logistics Manager

Other duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, modified or changed at any time at the organization’s discretion. Changes may be made formally, informally either verbally or in writing.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Warehouse 1-2 years experience. Must have a valid driver's license with a clean driving record and sufficient auto insurance to comply with state laws. Will be expected to drive for work, including ASOH owned box trucks (up to 26 feet) as a part of the job. College education is preferred.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Working with mobile devices, computers, cameras, scanners, and other related equipment
• Comfortable leading groups of 10 and more
• Motivating others
• Requires ability to lift, move, transport, furniture and other home goods in excess of 50-100 pounds
• Driving truck (up to 26ft in length)
• Using various data management software
• Communicating with persons outside the organization, supervisors, peers, and volunteers
• Organizing, planning, and prioritizing work
• Thinking creatively and innovatively
• Updating and using relevant knowledge
• Making decisions and solving problems
• Processing information and verifying accuracy of data
• Working directly with the public
• Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships
• Judging the qualities of things, services, or people
• Performing administrative activities
• Documenting/recording information and maintaining logs
• Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards/policies
• Estimating the quantifiable characteristics of products, events, or information

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Lifting and moving Requires ability to lift, move, transport, and stage furniture and other home goods
• often in excess of 50-100 pounds.
• Body positioning requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls and prolonged periods of standing and/or sitting
• Conflict requires dealing with potentially unpleasant, angry, or discourteous people; including conflict situations
• Impact of decisions requires making decisions that impact the results of co-workers, vendors, sponsors, donors, volunteers or the company
• Level of challenge requires being exact or highly accurate. Also requires repeating the same physical activities or mental activities over and over- often with freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals
• Pace and scheduling requires meeting strict deadlines and adhering to tight timelines
• Personal Interaction requires work with external individuals, organizations, businesses or the public. Also, requires coordinating or leading others in accomplishing work activities and work with others in a group or team
• Responsibility for Others Includes responsibility for work outcomes and results as well others' safety

WORK SETTING

Work Setting - Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions as well as outdoors in hot, cold, wet, humid and/or dry conditions. Work is often performed in a warehouse, driving a box truck, and in client apartments/homes throughout LA County. Also, requires ability to climb stairs or hills at times while lifting. Requires ability to lift, reach, hold and move heavy items; at times onto and from shelving units.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Your employment relationship is and is intended to be at will. This job description contains the entire agreement between you and A Sense of Home as to the duration of your employment and the circumstances under which your employment may be terminated. Nothing contained in this or any other materials generated by A Sense of Home or its employees, or any statement made by any employee of the organization, shall require the company to have “just” or “good cause” to terminate the employment relationship or to change the terms and conditions of your employment. Notwithstanding any disciplinary procedures or A Sense of Home rules or regulations, either you or A Sense of Home may terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause or prior notice. A Sense of Home can demote, transfer, suspend or otherwise discipline an employee in its sole and absolute discretion. Nothing in this job description, or any other personnel documents creates or is intended to create a promise or representation of continued or indefinite employment or employment for a specific term, in a specific position, or at a specific rate of pay, or to prohibit A Sense of Home from terminating you for any reason even if previously agreed that such a reason would not result in termination.

I also understand that A Sense of Home has the right to change the compensation, assignments, duties, responsibilities or geographical location of my job at any time, with or without cause.

By submitting an application, I confirm that I have read the A Sense of Home Logistics Coordinator Job Description and acknowledge that a copy has been given to me at the time of signing below.

I have read and understand the above Acknowledgment statement.

A Sense of Home offers a comprehensive benefits package including employer paid medical benefits, a 401k plan and generous paid time off.