Local Job Overview: Alexandria

Role Essentials

• Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package is included.
• Location: Alexandria, VA
• Company: UPS
• Impactful work with supportive local leadership.
• This role centers on your professional skills within the Package Logistics space in Alexandria.
• Role in Alexandria: Unloader
• Pay: $21-$23/Hour (approx. $26.3k/Year)
• This Alexandria-based role is an excellent opportunity for professionals skilled in relevant skills.
• Our UPS team in Alexandria, VA is growing.
• Benefit from working in Alexandria, a key hub for the Package Logistics industry.

About UPS & Our Culture

Every package in the UPS network begins its journey through our facilities at the unload belt — and our Unloaders are the first hands that touch it. At UPS, we believe that the best logistics careers are built from the ground up, and our Unloader role is where tens of thousands of successful UPS careers have started. If you are searching for active, physical UPS warehouse jobs that get you hired fast and reward your effort immediately, our package center unload operations are open and hiring. These are warehouse jobs that move at the speed of the world's greatest logistics network.

What Our Team Says (Employee Reviews)

"Unloading trailers is genuinely hard work, but UPS gives you the tools, the training, and the team to do it right. My legs and back got so much stronger in the first month. The union pay is better than any warehouse job in this area, and I am already enrolled in the Earn & Learn program to finish my associate's degree. Best entry-level opportunity I have ever taken." - Current UPS Unloader, Dallas, TX.

Role Overview & Responsibilities

As a UPS Unloader, you physically pull packages from inbound 53-foot trailers and place them onto conveyor belts that feed the sort operation. Your pace and accuracy at the trailer mouth directly determines the throughput of the entire package center during your shift.

• Trailer Unloading: Enter loaded trailers and systematically pull packages from floor-to-ceiling stacks, placing every parcel label-side up on the inbound belt at a sustained rate that meets the facility's hourly unload target.
• Irreg Identification: Flag oversized packages, hazmat items, and irregularly shaped parcels at the point of unload, diverting them to the appropriate specialty lanes before they enter the main sort flow.
• Trailer Safety & Chocking: Verify trailer wheel chocks are in place and the dock plate is properly seated before entering any trailer, following UPS safety protocols at every door without exception.

Benefits & Perks

UPS Unloaders are covered by the Teamsters national contract from their first day, receiving union wages, medical, dental, and vision benefits, pension accrual, and eligibility for the UPS Earn & Learn tuition assistance program covering up to $25,000 in college education costs.