Picker packer job workers are those warehouse employees who work in the retail sector or manufacturing industry. They fulfil orders for delivery and that is their prime responsibility. They work on the customers' order details and ensure that all items are there in stock.

They take the products or items listed in the order forms from the storage areas, assemble them, and ensure that everything pertaining to the order is correct and complete. The pickers and packers then pack the items securely before handing the completed package to the delivery workers. Pickers and packers also update their company inventory and are often assigned to oversee the records entry, whether it is updated on time.

Let us go through some of their salient responsibilities:

• They need to get to the truck, dock plus clamp the truck of goods
• They have to pick orders, put them away, check inbound, and load outbound trucks
• They also do the order picking, scanner loading, and unloading of the trailers
• They need to operate forklifts such as cherry pickers plus sit down forklifts
• They have to be familiar with RF gun scanning merchandise scans when items need to be put away, picked up, or have them prepared for shipping.
• They have to conduct bi-weekly checks on inventory via barcode scanners
• Pickers and packers regularly operate the cherry picker to collect items from different locations
• They should be able to train pickers using their communicative skills, these pickers are offered essential job assignments

Other Duties

Pickers and packers provide information to others using varied communication tools and give accurate details required for the successful completion of business orders. They also look after website order fulfilment and customer online invoices to fill and pack the order. They also complete orders ready to be sent for shipping through FedEx. In addition, they also perform all the normal labour duties such as preparing and fulfilling customers' online orders till the shipment stage

You can apply for picking and packing jobs wherein you can work at a warehouse or a distribution house. Most wholesalers and manufacturers have their distribution centres to keep all inventory before they ship them to customers or trade persons. 

As a professional picker packer, you may have to multi-task and do many duties that mainly focus on preparing order packages that are sent to shipment and checking inventory for customer orders. To become a top picker, you require good physical strength as you have to run around a lot, pick boxes out of the distribution storage centre, and put the item boxes in vans or trucks for shipment purposes. You may also have to do the paperwork, which is essential for the shipment.

You may have to perform miscellaneous work such as cleaning and organising the area and checking all the inventory from time to time. It is not easy to become a top-rated picker packer, you need specific mental as well as physical skills and agility. Previous work experience can help get you a picker packer job near your locality.