JOB SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for issuing required materials to distribution line, substation, and transmission crews utilizing necessary material handling equipment or by hand. Position is also responsible for receiving material for inventory as well as non-stock material for business units. Position has responsibility for picking and staging of material for crew work orders. Candidate in this position must be able to perform necessary documentation as required by Internal Controls (paper/computer) of all transactions. Position is in a warehouse type setting with exposure to extreme weather. Candidate should have the ability to progress upward to a General Warehouse Driver position. This position will require a Class A CDL (Commercial Driver License) permit within 6 months of employment, and a Class A CDL license within 1 year of employment.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Experience
• Experience in forklift and warehouse operations is preferred.
Job Requirements
• Class A CDL (Commercial Driver License) permit 6 months of employment, and a Class A CDL license within 1 year of employment required.
• High School Diploma required.
• Forklift certification preferred.
Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Candidate must be able to work proficiently within a computer environment and be computer literate. This position requires candidate to make transaction entries within SCM computer application (EZ-MAX/MAXIMO) on a daily basis.
• Candidate must be able to comprehend written and verbal communications in order to issue/receive materials to crews.
• Have the ability to operate various pieces of warehouse equipment (rack loaders, motorized pallet jacks, forklifts and various hand tools including but not limited to sledgehammers, wire cutters, rolling carts, electronic scales, sweeper machine.
• Loading/unloading of trucks by hand or utilizing warehouse equipment.
Other Requirements
• Perform necessary housekeeping duties.
• Utilize handheld scanner to scan/number and track transformers.
• Work in all types of weather.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull heavy objects (up to 50 lbs.).
A pre-employment test is required for this position.
General Warehouse Stockhandler
Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.
That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.
We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.
We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.
We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.
Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.
Workplace Awards
- 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
- 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
- Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
- 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
- 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
- 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
- No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
- No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
- No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
- No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
- 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
- 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
- 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
- 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
- No. 15 overall, top utility
- 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
