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Amazon Quick Ship Warehouse Associate

Job Overview

As an Amazon Quick Ship Warehouse Associate, you’ll enhance the customer shopping experience by working at the core of Amazon’s fastest delivery operation. You'll work in a retail warehouse environment, similar in size to a grocery store, where customers can order groceries and everyday essentials for ultra-fast delivery. You'll work alongside team members and delivery partners to ensure smooth operations and excellent customer service. The environment includes room temperature spaces, with reach-in refrigeration and freezer spaces. We will provide appropriate safety gear for all work areas.

Duties & Responsibilities

Some of your duties may include

1. Prepare customer orders for quick delivery

2. Maintain high attention to detail and accuracy

3. Use smartphones and handheld devices to sort, scan, and prepare orders

4. Receive and process truck deliveries

5. Stock shelves and manage inventory

6. Process customer returns

7. Maintain a clean and organized workspace

8. Collaborate with team members and delivery partners to ensure smooth operations and excellent customer service

You will also need to be able to do

1. Lift up to 49 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation

2. Stand, walk, push, pull, squat, bend, and reach for up to five hours during shifts, with or without reasonable accommodation

3. Work in room temperatures, with reach-in refrigerators (35°F-40°F) and freezers (below 32°F)

4. Use carts, dollies, hand trucks, and other gear to move items around

5. Go up and down stairs (where applicable)

6. Handle a variety of products including everyday essentials, as well as groceries (produce, alcohol, and meat—including prepackaged pork and seafood)

7. Be flexible to work at various locations within a 20-mile radius from the primary site based on operational needs and shift availability.

What it's like inside an Amazon Retail Warehouse

1. **Surroundings.** You'll be working in a retail warehouse environment with various equipment – shopping carts, pallet jacks, stock dollies, and a variety of products, including food and alcoholic beverages. You'll also interact with our digital shopping technology.

2. **Activity.** Work involves frequent movement between different areas, standing while conducting most tasks, and some lifting. You may need to reach into coolers or freezers.

3. **Temperature.** The warehouse is climate-controlled, but you may experience temperature changes when working with the reach-in refrigerated and freezer areas.

4. **Noise level.** Sound levels are minimal, similar to a typical retail warehouse environment.

5. **Dress code.** Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for safety. All associates must wear Amazon-approved comfortable, slip-resistant, closed-toe shoes for safety. Depending on the role or location, Amazon provides a $110 Zappos gift code towards the purchase of shoes, in order to have you prepared for your first day on the job.

6. **New store opening.** If you’re applying to a location that hasn’t opened yet, you’ll help prepare the team for its first customer orders. This may include tasks like setting up shelving and unloading product deliveries. You’ll also have an extended training and onboarding period, which may be at a nearby Amazon site.

Why You'll Love Amazon

Amazon jobs come with good benefits, flexible work hours, friendly teams, chances to learn new skills and move up in your career, all while working in clean, safe buildings with modern equipment.

Compensation

1. **Benefits.** **Many of our shifts come with a range of benefits that may include pay and savings options, healthcare, peace of mind for you and your family, and more.** **Learn more about flex time benefits.**

2. **Anytime Pay.** **You can instantly cash out up to 75% of your earnings immediately after your shift (for select employee groups).** **Learn more about Anytime Pay.**

Work-Life Balance

1. **Schedule flexibility.** **Ideal for someone looking for a part-time role. Work at least 4 hours and up to 20 hours per week with flexible schedules: Tuesday and Thursday one week, Wednesday and Saturday another, for example.** **Learn more about our schedules.**

2. **Shift options.** **Shifts follow various operating business hours (example: 8:30 AM – 9:30 PM). Shift times average 3-4 hours and can include weekends, weekdays, daytime, and evenings all based on availability and business needs.** **Find out more about our shifts.**

3. **Flexible locations.** **Opportunity to work at various sites within a 20-mile radius.**

Culture

1. **Inclusive workplace.** **We offer a variety of employee support programs and resource groups. Join us in making a positive impact through local community engagement initiatives and outreach activities that help strengthen the areas where we live and work.**

2. **Team environment.** **Work on small or large teams that support each other in a workplace that’s been ranked among the best workplaces in the world.**

Career Advancement

1. **New skills.** **Depending on the role and location, you’ll learn how to use the latest Amazon technology – including handheld devices and robotics.**

2. **Skills development and growth.** **We have made a pledge to upskill our employees and offer a variety of free training and development programs, and we also have tuition support options for select employee groups. See where your Amazon journey can take you.**

Safe and Modern Workplaces

1. **State-of-the-art facilities.** **We have modern warehouses that are clean and well organized.**

2. **Safety.** **Your safety is Amazon's top priority. We strive to provide safe working conditions throughout our warehouses, including safety training, personal protective equipment, and regular safety audits.**

Learn more about all the reasons to choose Amazon.

A full list of benefits and criteria for each to be offered a successful applicant can be found on our benefits page.

Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must be 18 years or older and proficient in English, including the ability to understand and adhere to all job requirement and safety guidelines.

How To Get Started

You can begin by applying above. If you need help with your application, you can start with our step-by-step guide. (https://hiring.amazon.com/hiring-process/application-guide#/)

If you have questions regarding the hiring process, please visit our support landing page.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation during the application and hiring process, including support for the New Hire Event, or need to initiate a request prior to starting your Day 1, please visit our People with Disabilities landing page (https://hiring.amazon.com/people-with-disabilities#/) or contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT). You can reach us by phone at 888-435-9287, Monday through Friday, between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. PT.

Equal Employment

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.