Warehouse And Operations As A Career

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  Hope you’re having a great week and I want to thank you for checking in with us today. I was asked last week, by a young gentleman named Brad with a background in the Restaurant Industry, what kind of a Warehouse job was the easiest to...

Welcome back, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  Today let’s touch on Leadership, we’ve discussed several different positions within the warehouse and transportation environments and of course what we’re interested in, or our goal is to make money, have a long term job that we can turn into a Career.  Here in...

Are we ready for work? Hello again, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We’ll have Joe joining us a bit later in the program today and we’d like to talk about being Ready or Prepared for work each day. We work in the Warehousing, Transportation and Operations fields, It can be Hot...

Thanks for joining us here at WAOC today, I’m Marty and I’d like to talk about Production or the Production Facility for a bit.  The Production world offers many warehouse opportunities and unlike in the Distribution arena, well I guess I shouldn’t say unlike really, but it does offer a different kind of productivity metric. ...

Hey everyone, thanks for listening in today, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last 27 weeks, everything from my thoughts on how to write our resumes to getting the attention of the light industrial recruiter and how to take control of our phone interview...

Thanks for joining us today, we really appreciate you listening and all the Likes and Follows. The comments and questions we receive are really interesting & I hope we’re getting you the information and answers you need to plan out your careers & make informed decisions towards your jobs and advancement.  I’m Marty and welcome...

Today here on Warehouse and Operations as a Career we visit with Joe, our go to Safety man and discuss our thoughts and opinions on a few Safety Topics and Tools.  We’ll talk in general about PPE and their importance.  We’ll share a few questions that’s came up or been presented & share our experiences...

Welcome back, we appreciate you checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, sharing a few thoughts and opinions as well as my own experiences about Warehousing and Operations each week.  If you’ve checked out a couple of our shows you’ve probably picked up on the idea that I...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, we had a question from a young man interested in becoming a driver but he wasn’t excited about working his way up through the warehouse.  He’d spoken with a friend that was a Driver Helper with a Foodservice Distribution Center, thought he’d like that work and...

Hi there, Marty here, Thanks for joining us today at Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  We’ve mentioned Transportation several times in other Episodes and I’ve had a few questions about the opportunities to move from warehousing into a Driver position so I thought today we’d visit on a few of those positions.  I’m really...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I hope you’ve had a great & prosperous week so far.  This week let’s look at the Building Maintenance side of warehousing, we’ve mentioned it a couple of times in previous episodes and it’s definitely a strong and stable department and an excellent career path.  In...

Today’s show is our 1st Quarterly Roundtable discussion, we’ll be answering a few questions from our audience and sharing some thoughts and opinions from our guests! Today’s topics include a little on the great strides made regarding Technology in our field, learn a bit about Safety and its importance and talk about advancement in the...

Today we talked about a couple of different approaches to warehouse Training, the different methods and how in the end the expectations are the same.  We discuss the Employee or Peer Trainer & the Full-time position of Trainer and how our questions, our input and communication is key to our success.  We really enjoyed our...

Hello all, Last week seemed like a long week right, I hope all was prosperous and productive for you!  Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career where we discuss the Positions and Opportunities within the Warehouse, Transportation & Operations Worlds.  I’m Marty and our sole objective is to help today’s young men & women...

Thanks for reaching out and catching Todays Show! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. One of the most utilized and versatile pieces of equipment in operations is the Pallet Jack.  Wither it’s a Manual Jack, which by the way helped revolutionize the movement of freight, the first models, around 1918, were operated...

Hello all and Welcome to today’s episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m Marty and I’ve gotten a number of questions about Temporary Staffing and are they a good place to get started in warehousing.  That’s actually a very good question and I do have a few thoughts, probably more like opinions on...

Thanks for listening in with us today!  Since we were talking about one of the Warehousing positions utilizing Powered Industrial Equipment we of course had to start off with a few comments about 29CFR1910.178 again, I know your probably tired of hearing about it if you’ve listened to all our shows but it’s a rule,...

Happy New Year! Marty here, Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, to a New Quarter & a New Year and all the new Opportunities I know there will brought with them!  I thought we’d do a quick recap of last quarter’s shows and talk about a subject that’s came up two or three...

Today WAOC spends a few minutes with Rodrigo, a Regional Facilities Manager with a National Sourcing Company and enjoyed his Career story. He shares his first thoughts regarding Warehousing, coming from a Financial/Auditing position and getting started with a Distribution Center.  We’ll hear about his first day, a long day, and hear how he handled...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  Today I’d like to talk a bit about Order Selection, its came up a couple of times and being one of the positions that can help set our course on a career I’d like to broach the subject and at least look at what it is. ...