Pleasanton Dock Worker with $22-$26/hr Pay | Hiring

Role Based in Pleasanton

Primary Details

• Company: UPS
• Position: Dock Worker (Flexible/Contract, Pleasanton)
• Location: Pleasanton, CA
• This Pleasanton-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Pleasanton, CA is growing.
• Benefit from working in Pleasanton, a key hub for the Package Logistics And Fulfillment industry.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary: $22-$26/Hour (approx. $49.9k/Year)
• Benefits: Benefits may be available based on employment type.
• Set your own schedule.

Responsibilities

• Core objectives involve your professional skills in Package Logistics And Fulfillment.

About UPS & Our Culture

The dock is where the UPS network breathes — packages arrive, packages depart, and every minute matters. Our Dock Workers are the associates who control that breathing, managing the constant inbound and outbound trailer flow that keeps our entire fulfillment center operation running on the hard schedules that UPS delivery promises depend on. These are not passive roles. A UPS dock worker job requires physical strength, spatial awareness, urgency, and the professional discipline to execute under departure deadline pressure without cutting corners on the safety or load quality standards that define UPS's industry reputation.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"The dock at UPS never stops moving and neither do I. I have worked docks at three different logistics companies and UPS is in a completely different class in terms of safety culture, equipment quality, and pay. The Teamsters contract protects my wages and my working conditions in ways that private warehouse dock worker jobs never did. Four years in, my back is fine, my paycheck is strong, and I am being groomed for a dock lead role that pays even more." - Current Dock Worker, San Antonio, TX.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Dock Worker, you manage the physical inbound and outbound freight flow at the dock level of our fulfillment center — unloading arriving trailers, loading completed outbound vehicles, and maintaining the dock floor safety and organization that allows the entire sort operation to function without interruption or incident.

• Inbound Trailer Unloading: Pull packages from fully loaded inbound trailers at a sustained production rate, placing every parcel correctly oriented on the inbound conveyor belt within the unload window that feeds the downstream sort operation without starving the belts of volume.
• Outbound Vehicle Loading: Build outbound loads in delivery vans, package cars, and linehaul trailers using UPS-approved stacking and weight-distribution methods, completing every vehicle to its load plan before the departure window closes.
• Dock Floor Safety Management: Maintain continuous dock floor organization — cleared walking lanes, secured equipment, properly chocked trailers, and correctly seated dock plates — enforcing the safety standards that prevent the dock-level injuries that UPS's methods are specifically designed to eliminate.

Benefits & Perks

UPS Dock Workers receive Teamsters union wages, full medical, dental, and vision benefits, pension accrual, paid personal days, and UPS Earn & Learn tuition assistance. Dock workers who consistently demonstrate safety leadership and load quality excellence are among the first considered for dock lead, quality control, and supervisor advancement within the UPS operations career ladder.