WAOC is always talking about Advancement, Planning and Careers, but aren\u2019t their warehouse and operations positions for us seeking part time positions or maybe just seasonal work? Hello all, I\u2019m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and the answer to that question is Certainly, and some great ones actually. I started to say and some great opportunities just then but let\u2019s talk today about a few of the positions for maybe the parent with children in school during the day, or the person that just wants to pick up some extra pay before or during the holidays. There\u2019s lots of seasonal positions available throughout the year even.
\nI\u2019m familiar with one such facility, a global organization, that does everything under one roof. They import and receive units that have to be assembled for their client\u2019s retail stores, once their assembled they store them or inventory them and then ship them to individual locations as needed. They offer not only short-term assignments, usually 2 to 3 week projects but ones that last between 2 and 4 months as well. Because they try and source that type of worker for their assembly department they try and work within peoples schedules, maybe like a 9 a.m to 3 p.m. shift so parents can drop of the children at school and are out in time to pick them up each week day. It\u2019s a win win for the employee and the employer! And since their employee is seeking this kind of schedule, they call them first every time a new project is ramping up. They\u2019ve worked for them before, know the task at hand and eliminates so much training, and that cost associated with it is greatly reduced! They regularly get those projects so even the receiving and shipping departments can utilize this type of workforce and be just as flexible with the hours as these extra hands will assist the full time associates during their crunch periods.
\nAnother production facility that produces disposable paper and plastic goods runs 6 shifts a week, a 1st, 2nd & 3rd Monday thru Fri and then three more on Sat & Sun. The weekend shifts are filled by those only wanting part time work or maybe a second income. I love this model; it helps reduce required overtime and creates work for a whole other segment of us in the workforce!
\nBoth of these examples are in the production or manufacturing aspects of the business and although there are probably fewer part time positions in distribution, at least the larger DC\u2019s there\u2019s plenty of warehousing or dock work positions in the retail environments too. All that product in our grocery stores, big box stores and the shopping malls comes in across a loading dock. It has to be unloaded, received and those shelves stocked so the end user or consumer can purchase it! A lot of those jobs are late evening or night positions, and typically will not require a full 40 hours a week. Maybe our deliveries only come in 2 or 3 times a week, and we\u2019ll only need to come in on those days, or we can come in for only like 4 hours each evening. An being more on the retail side, maybe it can be much more flexible with days worked and hours both!
\nAnd even in transportation and logistics, I know several people that work part time with cartage freight or cross dock facilities. These are great jobs too, set hours, maybe 4 or 6 hours shifts 3 or 4 days a week. A few of them I\u2019m aware of work with that fri, sat sun shifts. These can be both day and night shifts. Oh, and dispatchers can be part time as well. As a dispatcher we may have additional duties, maybe working with bill of laden, billing and working closely with the fleet maintenance people. Working so closely with the drivers can teach us a lot about the movement of freight, their side of it at least.
\nNow part time positions shouldn\u2019t be confused with casual work, casual positions or casual labor. In my experience these positions are held by people wanting to eventually be hired on full time somewhere.