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Opportunity in Fairburn

Fast Facts

• Based in: Fairburn, GA (a central Fairburn location)
• Urgency: Immediate consideration in Fairburn.
• Company: UPS
• Role in Fairburn: Scan Audit Associate
• This Fairburn-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Fairburn, GA is growing.
• Benefit from working in Fairburn, a key hub for the Package Logistics And Fulfillment industry.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $25-$29/Hour (approx. $58k/Year)
• Benefits: This role offers a competitive benefits package.
• Impactful work with supportive local leadership.

Position Scope

• Apply your your professional skills skills at our Fairburn location.

About UPS & Our Culture

UPS's industry-leading package tracking accuracy — the system that lets customers watch their package move across the country in real time — depends entirely on scan compliance at the fulfillment center level. Every package that passes through our facility without a valid barcode read is a broken link in that tracking chain, and it is our Scan Audit Associates who find and fix those broken links before they reach the customer. If you are a methodical, systems-oriented person searching for scan audit jobs near me that reward analytical thinking over physical speed, operate in a quieter zone of the warehouse floor, and still pay the full Teamsters union rate, this role is the most intellectually stimulating position in our hourly associate lineup.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"Scan audit work is detective work. When a package shows as unscanned in the system, I am the one who goes and finds it — checking the conveyor merge points, the chute overflow zones, the trailer loading areas. Most of the time I find it within ten minutes, but sometimes you have to think hard about where it could have gone. UPS takes tracking accuracy extremely seriously and they pay the scan audit associate accordingly. My analytical skills are genuinely valued here in a way they never were on the sort belt." - Current Scan Audit Associate, St. Louis, MO.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Scan Audit Associate, you maintain chain-of-custody tracking accuracy across the active sort floor inside our fulfillment center — using the UPS Sort Manager tracking dashboard, portable Bluetooth scanners, and your knowledge of package flow pathways to locate, manually scan, and correctly route every package that bypassed the automated scan tunnel during the sort window.

• No-Read Exception Resolution: Monitor the Sort Manager dashboard for real-time no-read alerts triggered when packages pass through the scan tunnel without a valid barcode capture — physically locating each alerted package within the sort flow, manually scanning it with a Bluetooth handheld device, and re-routing it to the correct outbound destination before it is loaded into the wrong trailer.
• Tunnel Performance Monitoring: Track automated scan tunnel read-rate percentages across all belt sections during active sort windows, identifying any section consistently reading below the 99.2 percent facility target and escalating the finding to the maintenance team with a specific tunnel ID and estimated read-rate deviation for prioritized repair scheduling.
• Misload Barcode Investigation: When a driver returns with a misloaded package — a parcel loaded into the wrong package car — trace the scan history of that package back through the sort audit log to identify the point of diversion failure, documenting the root cause in the quality tracking system to prevent recurrence on subsequent shifts.

Benefits & Perks

UPS Scan Audit Associates receive a precision-role pay supplement on top of the Teamsters base wage, full medical, dental, and vision benefits through the Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, pension accrual, paid personal days, and UPS Earn & Learn tuition program deposits. The analytical career pathway from this role leads directly into UPS quality engineering, operations supervisor, and supply chain analytics positions — making it one of the highest-upside hourly roles in the fulfillment center for associates with the ambition to advance beyond the floor.