Trailer Loader(Package Logistics And Fulfillment)Vacancy in Tonawanda

Opportunity in Tonawanda

Snapshot

• Apply your your professional skills skills at our Tonawanda location.
• Salary: $22-$26/Hour (approx. $49.9k/Year)
• Job Title: Trailer Loader
• Based in: Tonawanda, NY (a vibrant local hub)
• Benefits: This role offers a competitive benefits package.
• Stable workload with modern tooling and processes.
• Employer: UPS (Hiring in Tonawanda)
• This Tonawanda-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Tonawanda, NY is growing.
• Benefit from working in Tonawanda, a key hub for the Package Logistics And Fulfillment industry.

About UPS & Our Culture

Loading a 53-foot trailer at UPS is not simply stacking boxes into a truck. It is an engineering discipline — a method-based process of weight distribution, fragility sequencing, and cube utilization that protects tens of thousands of dollars in customer freight across hundreds of highway miles and dozens of rough dock approaches. Our Trailer Loaders are the associates who master this discipline, building outbound loads that arrive at destination hubs and delivery centers in the same condition they left our fulfillment center door. If you are searching for a physically demanding trailer loader job near me that pays a union premium, provides real method training, and rewards physical excellence with a career rather than a gig, UPS trailer loading is the role that defines what warehouse work can genuinely be.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"Loading trailers at UPS is the hardest physical work I have ever done and the most professionally satisfying. You stare down an empty 53-foot trailer at the start of every shift and you fill it intelligently — weight on the bottom, fragile on top, packages touching the ceiling before the last row goes in. When you pull the doors closed on a perfectly built load, you feel it. The Teamsters wages for a trailer loader at UPS are the strongest hourly rate I have found for non-CDL work in this state, and the pension that comes with it is the first real retirement plan I have ever had." - Current Trailer Loader, Cincinnati, OH.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Trailer Loader, you construct outbound freight loads inside 53-foot linehaul trailers from sorted package output inside our fulfillment center, building every load to UPS's approved stacking method standards and completing each trailer before its hard departure window without compromising the package integrity that UPS delivery promises depend on.

• Method-Based Load Construction: Build outbound trailer loads following UPS's approved Trailer Loading Method — packages stacked floor to ceiling in columns, heavy items placed on the trailer floor in the first third of the build, lightweight packages stacked on top, fragile items top-positioned and cushioned, and each row of packages keyed into the row behind it to prevent forward shift during highway braking events.
• Weight Distribution Management: Monitor cumulative load weight distribution across the trailer floor — ensuring the heaviest freight clusters are concentrated between the trailer kingpin and the rear axle group rather than at the extremes — preventing axle overload violations that can ground the trailer at a weigh station and create a service failure for every package aboard.
• Departure Window Compliance: Track your assigned trailer's hard departure time displayed on the dock door management screen, communicating loading progress status to the outbound shipping associate every 20 minutes during the loading window and completing the final package placement, door closure, and seal application at least 10 minutes before the departure time to allow the yard truck to spot the trailer at the guard gate on schedule.

Benefits & Perks

UPS Trailer Loaders earn Teamsters union base wages with additional loading-premium pay for trailers that require fluid loading technique on tight departure windows. Full medical, dental, and vision benefits through the Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, pension accrual, paid personal days, and UPS Earn & Learn tuition assistance covering up to $5,250 per calendar year toward an accredited degree program are all included from the first day of Teamsters eligibility.