Businesses across the United States are struggling to fill open warehouse jobs and as a result, the need for traveling warehouse workers is increasing. With the current labor shortage, companies are willing to pay a premium to bring in talented Order Selectors, Reach Truck Operators, and Cherry Pickers from all across the country to keep their warehouses staffed and products moving. In order to become a traveling warehouse worker, you’ll need to have plenty of experience in warehousing and you must be at the top of your game.

What does a Traveling Order Selector do?

Order Selectors are responsible for selecting customer orders and fulfilling them as quickly and accurately as possible. Traveling Order Selectors do exactly that, but they must have the right experience. When companies bring in a travel warehouse team, they’re doing so with the expectation that they’re highly skilled and experienced with the picking system that is in place at the warehouse such as Vocollect, voice selection, and/or RF scanners. They’re paying a premium for top talent and expect that personnel understand all aspects of order selection, movement of product within a distribution facility and will be able to acclimate quickly to the warehouse environment.

What does a Traveling Reach Truck Operator do?

Reach truck operators uses a reach truck to load, move, and unload heavy materials in warehouses or large retail spaces. Reach trucks are more compact than forklifts, so they’re better for maneuvering around narrow warehouses and moving items for certain types of aisle configurations. When companies hire traveling reach truck operators, they’re expecting that you have plenty of experience using this type of equipment and that you know your way around a warehouse.

Warehouse Staffing Agencies

Some companies that specialize in warehousing and logistics support also have traveling warehouse teams that they deploy to support their clients throughout the country such as Capstone Logistics, Humano, and FHI. There are also travel staffing agencies that fill more than warehouse jobs and offer positions across manufacturing, energy, and other industries such as MADICORP and PMG Services. The aforementioned companies along with the ones mentioned below can be found in our industrial staffing agency directory here.

Capstone Logistics

Capstone is a North American supply chain solutions provider with more than 550 operating locations, 17,000 associates, and 60,000 carriers. They have capabilities in freight management, warehouse and distribution center support, last-mile delivery, supply chain analytics, optimization, and more.

When working as a traveling selector for Capstone, you’ll be able to travel the United States all year long and they offer time home in between projects. This position requires the ability to understand all aspects of order selection, container stacking, and movement of product within a warehouse-distribution facility. The travel associate will perform product order selection from warehouse racking storage areas and place product on pallet or other shipping container in order to minimize damage and facilitate proper loading of product being shipped from the facility. Traveling order selectors will primarily be working in grocery and freezer environments.

Website: https://www.capstonelogistics.com/

Humano

Humano is a third-party warehouse provider that employs the happiest, best warehouse and distribution center people around. They are athletes, laborers, blue-collar power-houses all working at the warehouse helping to support our communities. They do everything from unloading, receiving, loading, forklift driving, clamp truck operating, order selecting or picking, to palletizing and general warehouse work.

As a Traveling Warehouse Worker for Humano, you’ll travel the country, (airfare/hotels/food paid for!) and help in various warehouse functions within the different warehouses you fly to! Travel Associates earn $800-$1700 per week with OT and $210 a week per diem — you can earn up to $2000/week by joining their team.

What Do Employees Have To Say About Working For Humano?

“Humano changed my life for the better. It’s only up from here.”

Website: https://www.humano.net

FHI Group

Become a part of the nationwide database of experienced warehouse professionals at FHI. Order Selectors are needed for traveling positions across the continental US. They offer competitive hourly wages, and the opportunity to work with an elite team of warehouse professionals gaining notoriety as the best value in warehouse services.

Website: https://www.fhiworks.com/

RSS – Regional Supplemental Services

Providing nationwide staffing services of Warehouse Workers and CDL Drivers, RSS supports many clients in foodservice, grocery, and beverage distribution with over 30 years of experience providing travel labor.

Is RSS A Good Company To Work For?

We went straight to the source and asked RSS employees if it’s a good company to work for and here’s what people say:

“They legit. Cash per diem every day and they make you sign off on your hours at the end of the week so they git it right”

“You gonna love that sh*t. Money always on point, great team, room, etc. Not a bad company at all. Been with them since May”

“I’ve been out with RSS for almost a year now, and I love it.”

“RSS the best. Always good money and dope people”

Website: https://www.rssinc.com/

Huffmaster

Huffmaster is a staffing agency specializing in rapid strike staffing, for warehousing, industrial, healthcare, and other industries.

Here’s what people that have been on Huffmaster’s jobs have to say:

Is Huffmaster A Good Company To Work For?

“Huffmaster’s a great company, it’s some of the recruiters be on BS”

“Did a contract with them in WA state before. They paid for the flight and hotel fee as well as transportation to work site”

“Yes, indeed”

“Huffmaster used to pay more for strikes than $20hr they lowlablling now!”

“Guards get little money. Workers make the most”

Website: https://huffmaster.com/

MADICORP

Since 1992, MADI has been delivering contingent labor nationwide specializing in manufacturing, warehousing, energy, utilities, and more. When it comes to order selectors, pickers, or general forklift operators, MADI offers access to warehouse positions across many different industries and for well-known companies in need of staffing support.

Website: https://www.madicorp.com/

PMG Services

PMG recruiters will provide you with personal, hands-on assistance in matching you with the right warehouse jobs to fit your needs. These are generally short-term assignments requiring that you travel to job sites in various parts of the country, for which they will pay all travel and housing expenses. PMG offers excellent pay, with the potential for you to earn as much in 6-8 months as you would earn in a year elsewhere, allowing you the flexibility to take time off between assignments.

Website: https://pmgservices.com/

Companies Hiring Traveling Order Selectors Directly

As the needed for experienced order selectors has increased, some companies in the foodservice industry such as C&S Wholesale Grocers, UNFI and Performance Foodservice have started hiring traveling order selectors directly and managing their own travel teams. When working for a company directly, you’ll want to consider the number of distribution centers they have, what areas of the country are they in, what they have to offer in terms of pay, benefits, per diem, and lodging.

C&S Wholesale Grocers

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. is the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the U.S. Founded in 1918 as a supplier to independent grocery stores, C&S now services customers of all sizes and has 30 distribution centers across the country. Check out the video below about what it’s like working for C&S Wholesale Grocers as a Selector.

Website: https://www.cswg.com/

UNFI – United Natural Foods, Inc.

UNFI is a Providence, RI-based natural and organic food company and is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty food in the United States and Canada.

Working as part of UNFI’s Swat Warehouse Team you will be assigned to various distribution centers to support ongoing warehouse operations. You’ll need to have a strong understanding of selection, loading, and forklift driving. Must also be well versed in proper selection methods, pallet building, productivity measures, and safety procedures.

See what a day in the life of a warehouse associate is like at UNFI.

Website: https://www.unfi.com/

Performance Foodservice

Delivering to over 80,000 customer locations across America, Performance Foodservice is one of the largest foodservice distributors in the nation.

Working as a Field Support Selector, Order Picker, Warehouse Worker you’ll be responsible for hand-selecting and/or forklift movement of food and non-food products including reading labels, placing product in the proper locations on pallets, let-downs, replenishment, put-away, and/or preparing for shipping. This position is physically demanding, entails exposure to varying temperature zones, and will require significant travel to Performance distribution centers within a geographic region.

Performance Foodservice is a division of Performance Food Group — you can check out the video below to see what it’s like working as an Order Selector at Performance Food Group.

Website: https://www.performancefoodservice.com/

How To Find A Traveling Warehouse Job

When it comes to finding the right traveling warehouse job, you’ll want to chat with others in the industry and find out which travel staffing agencies people recommend. Check out our post on the Top Staffing Agencies here, join our Facebook group Traveling Contract Jobs: Industrial to find jobs and chat with others in the industry, and you can find contact information to some of the top travel staffing companies here. Traveling warehouse jobs can fill up quickly and if you want to have a leg up on new positions that become available, don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter The Road, to get new warehouse jobs and industry updates delivered to your inbox.