Package Sorter

Amazon Urgently hiring for Package Sorter positions near you. Amazon now hiring for exciting Warehouse positions, you will get a chance to work in world's best workforce with a exceptional and supportive team. You might be excited to start/reinitiate you first day with amazon warehouse. Here are the few details which you need to know.

Warehouse sorters are in charge of sorting materials, equipment, and finished packages to ensure the smooth workflow of a warehouse. Their duties include verifying work orders with corresponding item and batch numbers, moving items that are ready for delivery, loading stock onto delivery trucks, and reporting any damages to the supervisor.

Sorters working for Amazon are may required to handle inventory as well – while they may not be entirely responsible for it, they are expected to oversee stock levels, and communicate low stock levels to their managers.

To ensure success as a warehouse sorter, you should have exceptional organizational skills and a solid understanding of Occupational Safety guidelines. Ultimately, a top-notch warehouse sorter should be a solution-driven individual who pays meticulous attention to detail and displays excellent manual skills to perform the warehouse works.

Duties & Responsibilities

Few of the essential duties are:

• Receive and sort inventory
• Get customer orders ready for delivery
• Use technology like scanners, computers, and handheld printers

You'll also need to be able to:

• Lift up to 49 pounds
• Stand, walk, push, pull, squat, bend, and reach during shifts
• Use carts, dollies, hand trucks, and other gear to move items around
• Go up and down stairs (where applicable)
• Work at a height of up to 40 feet on a mezzanine (where applicable)

Benefits

The perks of being an Amazon employee don’t stop at collaborating with great people or delivering smiles to our customers every day. We offer a full range of benefits to regular, full-time US employees and eligible family members – including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by role, location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status. They can also include the following:

• Competitive Pay
• Overtime for more than 40 hours
• Time-and-a-half working any Amazon holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
• Access up to 70% of your earnings sooner than next week’s statement
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs
• Healthcare: Medical Advice Line Neighborhood Health Centers in select regions and cities
• Virtual primary or urgent care visit from the comfort of your home with Amazon Care
• Adoption Assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses
• Maternity and Parental Leave
• 401(k) savings plan
• No-cost benefits for your health and well-being
• Resources for parents whose children struggle with developmental disabilities
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Holiday pay opportunities
• Employee discounts
• Basic life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• On-the-job training and skills development
• Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

Few of the qualifications which we look for:

• Candidates must be 18 years or older
• Ability to understand and adhere to all job requirements and safety guidelines.
• Ability to lift up to 49 pounds

Our Hiring Process

Our hiring process includes few very simple steps. When you apply for an warehouse package sorter job role at Amazon, the first thing you’ll notice is that you don’t need a resume. Here’s what to expect from the moment you click “Apply” for a warehouse role to your first day on the job.

• Our online application consists of providing some information about yourself, and selecting your preferred shift. This usually takes about fifteen minutes to complete.
• Attend New Hire Events: After completing your Virtual Job Preview, you will attend an in-person 30-minute New Hire Event appointment. When you go to this appointment, bring: proof of your identity and employment eligibility. You don’t get paid to go to a New Hire Event — it is part of the application process.
• Your First Day! You will receive an email with schedule details. When you arrive to your first day at Amazon, you will dive deeper into the details of your work and learn important safety rules to keep you and your teammates safe. Tip: Wear the proper attire: close-toed shoes, no jackets or hoodies with drawstrings, no long necklaces, no hoop earrings, and have long hair pinned up or in a ponytail.

Amazon Sortation Center looks like :

• Safety: Your safety is important to us, so we provide protective gear. All teams share safety tips daily.
• Surroundings: You’ll be working around moving machines – order pickers, stand-up forklifts, turret trucks, and mobile carts.
• Activity: Some activities may require standing in one place for long periods, walking around, or climbing stairs.
• Temperature: Even with climate controls, temperatures can vary between 60°F and 90°F in some parts of the warehouse; on hot days, temperatures can be over 90°F in the truck yard or inside trailers.
• Noise level: It can get noisy at times. We provide hearing protection if you need it.
• Dress code: Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for safety. Comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required and protective safety footwear are required in select business units. 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.

Why You'll Love to be Amazon Package Sorter

• Stay busy: You and your team are engaged the entire shift.
• Schedule flexibility: Depending on where you work, schedules may include full-time (40 hours), reduced-time (30-36 hours) or part-time (20 hours or less), all with the option of working additional hours if needed.
• Shift options: Work when it works for you. Shifts may include overnight, early morning, day, evening, and weekend. You can even have four-day workweeks and three-day weekends.
• Anytime Pay: You can instantly cash out up to 70% of your earnings immediately after your shift (for select employee groups).
• Career advancement: 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.
• New skills: Depending on the role and location, you’ll learn how to use the latest Amazon technology – including handheld devices and robotics.
• Team environment: Work on small or large teams that support each other.

About Amazon

There’s a reason Amazon has been ranked among the best workplaces in the world. It’s a commitment to our employees, our customers, our communities, the environment, and the world. Everyday we strive to be Earth’s Best (and Safest) Employer. What does that mean for you, someone considering not just a job, but a career at Amazon? We hope it is everything you’re expecting – and more.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company. We actively recruit candidates through our partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and women’s colleges. We have over 40,000 veterans and military spouses working at Amazon.

Safity

The health and safety of our employees has always been Amazon’s top priority. We work closely with health and safety experts and scientists. We conduct thousands of safety inspections each day in our buildings. And we’ve made hundreds of changes as a result of employee feedback on how we can improve their well-being at work.

Leadership Support

As a leading U.S. employer, we have an important role to play in providing Amazonians access to the education and training they need to grow their careers. Over the next five years, Amazon is dedicating over $700 million to provide 100,000 employees, roughly a third of our U.S. workforce, with access to training programs.

In addition to its commitment to diversity and inclusion, Amazon is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against people of any race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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