Warehouse Associate

A successful Warehouse Associate provides reliable operational support to the purchasing department by moving, securing, counting, packing, and tracking materials, and by maintaining a clean, organized, and efficient warehouse.  

This individual is highly organized and takes pride in ensuring that everything has a designated place and that materials are easy to find, access, and account for. They are responsive, dependable, and strong in follow-through, ensuring requests are handled promptly and tasks are completed accurately and on time. Additionally, they may transport inventory to various job sites and/or other locations. 

This individual must be comfortable driving pickup trucks with trailers and operating a forklift. 

Kraun drives for results, takes pride in our professionalism, and values the people on our team. We love that we are good at what we do, and who we work alongside each day is critically important. We aim to provide a work environment where individuals feel safe, matter, belong and can grow professionally.

• Always represent Kraun with professionalism and consistently demonstrate SPARK values. 

• Provide excellent customer service to the field team and other internal customers. 

• Coordinate delivery and pickup of materials from job sites, vendors, and other company locations. 

• Receive incoming materials, including physical unloading, inspection, verification, and ERP processing. 

• Load and unload trucks safely, accurately, and efficiently. 

• Operate forklifts, pallet trucks, and other material-handling equipment safely and efficiently. 

• Pick inventory, satisfy material requests, and stage orders for pickup or delivery. 

• Arrange, organize, and stage materials, reels, skids, and other items for scheduled pickup, loading, or delivery. 

• Assist with returns, including excess material returned from job sites, and ensure items are sorted, recorded, restocked, or processed appropriately. 

• Perform inventory cycle counts to support accurate stock levels and identify discrepancies. 

• Maintain warehouse organization, cleanliness, labelling, and effective inventory control. 

• Organize, catalogue, and sort inventory in the warehouse, vans, yard, and outdoor storage areas. 

• Optimize yard and outdoor storage areas for efficiency, accessibility, safety, and proper material flow. 

• Stock vans to the required inventory standard and assist with maintaining accurate van inventory. 

• Manage the tool crib, including signing tools in and out, labelling tools as needed, maintaining tool cage organization, and controlling tool inventory. 

• Inspect and test tools to confirm they are clean, complete, safe, and in good working order before being issued or returned to service. 

• Support a fast-paced warehouse environment by prioritizing tasks, multitasking effectively, and responding quickly to changing operational needs. 

• Perform other duties as assigned 
   

Key Accountabilities 

• Material flow and logistics: Ensure materials, tools, reels, skids, and job-site supplies are received, picked, staged, delivered, returned, and loaded efficiently. 
• Inventory accuracy and control: Maintain accurate warehouse, van, yard, tool crib, and ERP inventory records through receiving, cycle counts, labelling, organization, and return processing. 
• Internal customer service and warehouse readiness: Provide excellent service to electricians and field teams while keeping the warehouse, yard, tool cage, and storage areas organized, clean, safe, and ready for daily operations. 

 

​​Qualifications and Education Requirements​ 

• High school diploma/GED is required; college diploma preferred 

• Valid Ontario G driver's licence and clean driving record 

• Valid forklift certification is an asset 

• Previous warehouse or manual labour experience is an asset 

• Clean criminal reference check 

 

Preferred Skills 

• Strong organizational skills  

• Mechanically inclined and able to work with tools 

• Able to build and assemble things with ease 

• Comfort operating forklifts, driving trucks, hooking up trailers, etc. 

• Good communication and organizational skills 

• Ability to quickly learn new software programs 

• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines 

• Able to follow safety rules 

• Reliability and initiative 

• Good navigational skills 

• Basic math skills 

 

Working Environment & Physical Demands 

• Includes but is not limited to the routine use of standard office equipment, extensive walking and standing, using ladders, heavy lifting, and operating machinery 

• Exposed to all weather conditions 

• Extensive walking, standing, climbing ladders, heavy-lifting, carrying, etc.