Milwaukee, WI
Starting Pay: $21.55 per hour
Schedule: Full-time, 1st Shift Employment
Type: Full-time, non-exempt
Receive it right. Track it accurately. Help feed eastern Wisconsin.
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is hiring a dependable and detail-oriented Warehouse Assistant – Receiving to support inbound product and receiving operations at our Milwaukee distribution center.
In this role, you will help ensure incoming food and other essential products are received accurately, inspected for quality, entered into our inventory system, labeled, scanned, and placed in the correct warehouse locations.
This is a hands-on position that combines physical warehouse work with strong attention to detail and inventory accuracy. You will work closely with drivers, warehouse team members, donors, and other departments to help keep products moving safely and efficiently from the time they arrive at our facility.
What You Can Expect
- Starting pay of $21.55 per hour
- Full-time, 1st-shift schedule
- Stable, year-round work
- Primary responsibility for receiving and inbound product processing
- Hands-on experience with inventory, scanning, and warehouse systems
- A supportive, team-oriented environment
- The opportunity to make a meaningful difference in communities across eastern Wisconsin
Benefits
Full-time employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Safe Harbor 401(k) match of 100% on the first 4% contributed, with immediate vesting
- Employer HSA contribution for eligible employees
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Personal Day and Floating Holiday
- Volunteer Time Off
- Employer-paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Paid parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Mission-driven work supporting communities across eastern Wisconsin
What You Will Do
- Receive incoming food, donations, purchased products, and other materials delivered to the Milwaukee facility.
- Unload trucks safely and efficiently using forklifts, pallet jacks, and other material-handling equipment.
- Verify incoming products against receiving documentation, manifests, bills of lading, and other records.
- Weigh, count, and inspect incoming products to ensure accurate receiving and inventory records.
- Scan and enter received products into the inventory system according to established procedures.
- Ensure products are accurately labeled, identified, and assigned to the correct warehouse locations.
- Inspect incoming food and products for quality, freshness, damage, temperature, food safety, and overall suitability.
- Communicate product discrepancies, damages, quality concerns, or receiving issues to the appropriate team members.
- Move received products from the receiving area to appropriate storage, cooler, freezer, staging, or distribution locations.
- Maintain an organized receiving area and ensure products are processed in a timely manner.
- Assist with inventory counts, cycle counts, and reconciliation of receiving or inventory discrepancies.
- Maintain accurate cooler and freezer temperature records and support proper product storage conditions.
- Coordinate with drivers, warehouse team members, donors, programs, and other departments to support efficient receiving operations.
- Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, and other material-handling equipment after completing required training and certification.
- Maintain clean, safe, and organized receiving docks, warehouse areas, coolers, and freezers.
- Follow all food safety, warehouse safety, OSHA, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Support order fulfillment, product movement, inventory activities, and other warehouse functions as operational needs require.
What You Bring
Required Qualifications
- Commitment to understanding and supporting Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin’s mission and work to address food insecurity.
- Respect for the people and communities we serve.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to receiving and inventory accuracy.
- Ability to accurately count, weigh, label, scan, and document incoming products.
- Ability to learn and use inventory, scanning, database, and warehouse management systems.
- Ability to identify product quality, food safety, or receiving concerns and communicate them appropriately.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with drivers, warehouse team members, donors, and other departments.
- Positive, team-oriented approach with a willingness to solve problems and support changing operational needs.
- Ability to work safely and follow established food safety and warehouse procedures.
- Ability to safely lift and move up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to obtain and maintain forklift certification within two weeks of hire.
- Ability to work effectively with people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Preferred Qualifications
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Six months or more of warehouse, receiving, distribution, shipping, grocery, manufacturing, or similar experience.
- Previous experience in a receiving or inbound warehouse role.
- Experience with data entry, inventory systems, scanners, or warehouse management systems.
- Previous forklift, pallet jack, or other material-handling equipment experience.
- Experience reviewing receiving documentation, inventory counts, or product discrepancies.
Physical and Working Conditions
This is an active warehouse, receiving, and material-handling position. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, bend, twist, climb, reach, kneel, squat, sit, and use their hands to handle equipment and products.
The employee must be able to:
- Lift and move up to 50 pounds
- Safely load, unload, and move products
- Enter and exit trailers and receiving areas as needed
- Safely operate material-handling equipment after completing required training
- Work in warehouse, refrigerated, and freezer environments, including temperatures as low as approximately -10 degrees Fahrenheit
- Work in environments with moderate to high noise levels
- Wear closed-toed shoes and appropriate protective or cold-weather clothing
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
About Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is the leading local hunger-relief organization in the state, with locations in Appleton and Milwaukee.
Founded in 1982, we are a local and independent member of the Feeding America network. Together with our community partners, donors, volunteers, and supporters, we serve nearly half a million people experiencing food insecurity across 35 counties in eastern Wisconsin each year.
Our receiving and warehouse teams play an important role in this work. By ensuring incoming food is safely received, accurately recorded, inspected, and stored, they help create the foundation for getting food efficiently to community partners and neighbors throughout eastern Wisconsin.
Apply Today
We are looking for someone who is dependable, detail-oriented, safety-focused, comfortable with technology and inventory systems, and committed to accurate receiving.
Employment with Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and other pre-employment requirements applicable to the position.
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination against applicants or employees based on age, race, color, creed, religion, disability, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, arrest or conviction record, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.