Power Equipment Operator

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Dayton, TX

This role involves managing freight flow in a warehouse environment, including moving, scanning, and handling freight manually and with power equipment. Responsibilities include maintaining merchandise supply, performing basic equipment maintenance, ensuring freight quality, and organizing the warehouse. The role emphasizes living Walmart's values, including culture championing, servant leadership, embracing change, customer focus, strategic thinking, and collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage freight flow by moving, scanning, and handling freight manually and/or with power equipment.
  2. Maintain merchandise supply by replenishing pallets of merchandise onto/from racks or docks using warehouse systems or through verbal instructions.
  3. Provide basic maintenance to equipment (e.g., clean, inspect).
  4. Ensure freight quality by processing stray and damaged cases; inspecting pallets, shrink wrap, and freight for damage; cutting shrink wrap as needed; and maintaining records, logs, and forms.
  5. Organize warehouse by using power equipment to remove pallets from pallet returns (e.g., pallet storage, trailers); up-stacking/down-stacking empty pallets; and up-stacking/down-stacking freight.

Skills

Required

  • Ability to operate power equipment
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Basic equipment maintenance

Nice to have

  • Experience with warehouse systems
  • Forklift certification