Power Equipment Operator

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Williamsburg, VA

Operates power equipment to manage freight flow, maintain merchandise supply, and organize the warehouse. Responsibilities include moving, scanning, and handling freight, replenishing pallets, performing basic equipment maintenance, ensuring freight quality, and organizing pallets. The role emphasizes living Walmart 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

  • power equipment operation
  • freight handling
  • warehouse systems
  • basic equipment maintenance
  • record keeping

Nice to have

  • pallet management
  • inventory management