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Southern Company

Materials Helper (Storeroom) - Forest Park, GA

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Forest Park
State: 
Georgia
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other
Company: Southern Company, Posted: April 26, 2024

Storeroom Helper

Forest Park, Georgia - Materials Distribution Center

This posting will be used to fill positions throughout the year of 2024, as they become available.

The Materials Helper Storeroom position assists the Senior Storekeeper with their responsibilities as they apply to warehouse activities, including but not limited to the following:

  • Organize and inventory warehouse materials
  • Prepare materials for outgoing shipment
  • Maintain clean work environment
  • Assist customers and employees with locating materials
  • Assist customers and employees with loading and unloading of materials


Note: This is a position covered by a collective bargaining agreement between Georgia Power and IBEW Local 84 and is governed by this agreement. Union membership is optional. The starting salary (non-negotiable) is governed by this agreement which includes an increase every six months assuming satisfactory performance, until you max out in your job classification and a negotiated general increase every July.

Job Experience and Education

  • High School diploma or equivalent is required
  • Warehouse related experience and/or background is highly preferred
  • Successful completion of Warehouse - Clerical Test is required


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Ability to follow instructions and translate those instructions into action items
  • Computer literacy desirable.
  • Must be able to interact with various internal customers
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. continuously/repetitively is required
  • May be required to travel to other Region Storerooms to assist as needed
  • Ability to work overtime and storm duty when necessary
  • Ability to safely operate a forklift or similar motorized warehouse equipment for warehouse materials distribution


Behavioral Attributes

  • Customer oriented team player who is willing to learn, be flexible, and self-motivated
  • Individual must show a strong dedication to safety
  • Candidate must demonstrate behaviors consistent with the company culture - Unquestionable Trust, Superior Performance and Total Commitment


Georgia Power Company has classified this position as \"Safety Sensitive\" and as such is subject to relevant pre-employment screening(s) to determine fitness for duty. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant successfully completing all required fitness assessments.

All candidates must apply online while this posting is active (including submitting resume information) and answer a series of job-related questions in order to be considered.

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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