Returns Associate in Franklin, Kentucky at DAS Companies, Inc.

At DAS Companies, Inc., we blend a strong family heritage with an entrepreneurial spirit and a deep commitment to making a difference. We’re more than a distributor—we’re a strategic partner. Specializing in products that support the on-the-go lifestyle, we serve professional drivers, mobile workers, and travelers across North America.

From product development to retail merchandising, DAS delivers the right products, in the right places, at the right time. If you're looking for a career where your work matters and your values align with a greater purpose, we’d love to hear from you.

Participates in various aspects of the returns department to effectively move product through the returns area.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions
• Possess basic mathematical skills
• Think independently and show a sense of urgency
• Picks merchandise loads or stacks products on carts and/or pallets
• Engages in packing and wrapping products and materials to protect them from damage during shipment
• Distributes merchandise to appropriate areas where allocated
• Involved in de-tagging, re-labeling, and sorting products
• Sorts and expedites movement of product by zone according to date and records and maintains perpetual inventory of quantity of product distributed
• Packages, ships, and records information pertaining to product to be returned to the vendor
• Prepares accurate paperwork for all returned product and compiles files of the list of products handled
• Operates company machinery as applicable to department and according to all operating and safety instructions
• Keeps assigned work areas in a clean and orderly condition
• Helps unload trucks when merchandise is delivered
• Reads customer orders to determine items to be gathered
• Accurately and efficiently assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or carts
• Accurately records the number of items picked and reports any discrepancies to the immediate supervisor
• Inspects products prior to packing and wrapping and places rejected products aside
• Efficiently packs products for shipping
• Accurately scans products being packed and notifies supervisor of any discrepancies
• Checks all orders to ensure accuracy
• Loads boxed product on pallets and wraps for shipping, ensuring proper shipping information is on the pallets
• Constructs boxes according to required dimensions and order needs
• Ensures a steady supply of boxes is available for packers and the shipping team
• Loads and secures load bars for outbound shipments
• Provides assistance to the shipping department as needed, including staging and loading pallets
• Other duties may be assigned

Work Context

Physical Demands/Environment:

• Regularly required to stand in one place; walk; use hands and arms, to handle, or reach; talk/communicate; ability to hear and see; ability to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Frequently required to stoop, kneel or crouch; use color vision; work near moving mechanical parts or objects.
• Occasionally required to stand in one place; use color vision; Occasionally exposed to fumes and/or chemicals; subject to vibrations; ability to move up to 100 lbs. or greater with team assist and/or equipment.
• Noise level ranges from moderate to loud.

Comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, and vision insurance (free vision for employee only option).

• Competitive Salary
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match after a year of employment
• Paid time off and holidays
• Opportunities for advancement and professional development