Warehouse Associate

Establish and maintain effective work relationships within the department. Proactively be a part of the problem solving and communicate with appropriate departments, customer or vendors when product or customer service issues arise.

Duties and Responsibilities

Order Processing:

• Review all supporting paperwork for order (ex: sales order, production order, MTR’s, etc.) to ensure correctness and accuracy.
• Compares identifying information of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices, work orders, and/or other records
• Affixes shipping labels on packed cartons or stencils identifying shipping information on cartons
• Scan and store all data received from customer on incoming jobs, as well as, creates data packs and assigns incoming work orders to jobs
• Posts weights and shipping charges, and affixes postage
• Reviews and ensures all paperwork is prepared and included with shipment
• Pull and review all orders per quality control standards

Material Receiving:

• Unpacks and examines incoming shipments (inventory and buy outs), rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages (according to Branch vendor receiving processes) – reconcile bill of lading of material with actual shipment.
• Maintain records of all incoming shipments from and to the warehouse.
• Distribute material to correct area or bin location
• Unload inbound trucks with inventory
• Turn in packing list and paperwork
• Break down shipments and stock inventory with the put away report
• Record bin location changes and turn in so necessary bin locations can be changed in the system
• Inspect RMA’s for disposition of material (must be in factory new condition to stock material)

Order Shipping:

• Prepares orders for shipping including: end protectors, touch up paint, tagging, palletizing, and wrapping.
• Coordination of third party freight and will call orders.
• Examines outgoing shipments to ensure shipments meet specifications

Other Duties

• Report shortages on warehouse materials (ex: crating materials, pallets and crates for export orders in compliance for export regulations)

• Successfully complete Operator Safety Training of Powered Industrial Equipment Training Course
• Verifies and keeps records on incoming and outgoing shipments and prepares items for shipment
• Report maintenance and repair needs for all warehouse equipment to Warehouse Manager
• Use of forklift and other warehouse equipment for unloading and loading trucks.
• Delivery/Pick Up driver as needed
• All other duties as assigned
• Frequent overtime, including weekends

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1+ year experience in industrial supply and/or valve shipping/receiving
• High School diploma or GED required
• Prior forklift experience (electric and/or sit-down)
• Must be able to read, write and speak English.  Bilingual (Spanish) is a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong attention to detail, stays organized and ability to problem solve
• Basic computer skills
• Good verbal communication skills