Atchison Inbound Unloader($22-$25/hr) | Hiring

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Fast Facts

• Employer: UPS (Hiring in Atchison)
• Status: New Atchison listing (actively interviewing).
• Pay: $22-$25/Hour (approx. $28.3k/Year)
• Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package is included.
• Worksite: Atchison, KS
• Clear growth pathways at our Atchison office.
• Position: Inbound Unloader (Based in Atchison)
• Core objectives involve your professional skills in Package Logistics And Fulfillment.
• This Atchison-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Atchison, KS is growing.
• Benefit from working in Atchison, a key hub for the Package Logistics And Fulfillment industry.

About UPS & Our Culture

The inbound unload is the first movement every package makes inside the UPS network — and it sets the pace for everything that follows. When an inbound trailer arrives at our fulfillment center dock door, the Inbound Unloader who empties it in the next 25 to 35 minutes determines whether the downstream sort has time to clear before linehaul departure deadlines. This is physically intense, time-critical work — the kind of role where personal performance has a direct, measurable impact on the entire facility's ability to make its commitments. If you are searching for an active inbound unloader job near me that rewards physical capability with genuine union wages and benefits no gig warehouse job can match, UPS inbound unloading is where effort translates most directly into career value.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"I unload trailers at UPS and I will tell you honestly — it is hard and it is fast. You are in that trailer for 25 to 40 minutes pulling packages from floor to ceiling stacks and putting them on the belt without stopping. But the physical conditioning you build is real, the pace becomes normal after a few weeks, and the feeling of coming out of a cleared trailer knowing you gave 100 percent is something I do not get from any desk work. The Teamsters wage and benefits make this the best compensated hard work I have found anywhere in this city for a warehouse unloader job." - Current Inbound Unloader, El Paso, TX.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Inbound Unloader, you physically empty arriving 53-foot trailers during a focused sort shift inside our fulfillment center, pulling packages from stacked loads at a sustained production rate and placing every parcel correctly oriented on the inbound conveyor belt that feeds the downstream sort operation.

• High-Velocity Trailer Clearance: Enter assigned trailers and systematically pull packages from floor-to-ceiling stacked loads — working from the trailer doors toward the nose, pulling the top row before the bottom row to prevent avalanche collapse — maintaining an individual unload rate of 800 to 1,200 packages per hour depending on package size mix and trailer density.
• Conveyor Induction Method: Place every pulled package on the inbound belt label-side up, barcodes facing outward, with no stacking of packages on top of each other at the belt induction point — a method discipline that ensures every package receives a clean barcode read at the tunnel scanner without requiring a manual scan audit intervention downstream.
• Damage & Exception Flagging: Identify damaged, leaking, hazmat-labeled, or non-conveyable packages at the point of pull — before they enter the belt — diverting each exception to the correct specialty lane alongside the belt without breaking unload momentum on the remaining standard packages in the trailer.

Benefits & Perks

UPS Inbound Unloaders receive Teamsters union wages, full medical, dental, and vision benefits through the Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, a defined-benefit pension accruing at the contractual service credit rate, paid personal days negotiated into the master agreement, and UPS Earn & Learn tuition assistance deposited directly to your institution up to $5,250 per year. The physical demands of inbound unloading are matched by one of the most physically fit and team-bonded work crews on the UPS floor — a culture that turns hard work into genuine professional pride every single shift.