Warehouse Specialist

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Operates powered industrial forklift to transport inventory, unload incoming stock and load orders.
• Pulls and stages orders for shipment.
• Fill and transact work orders, purchase orders and sales orders.
• Perform cycle counts.
• Replenish flow line materials and receive completed devices.
• Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.
• Keep records on the use and/or damage of stock or stock handling equipment.
• Follows standard operating procedures.
• Transact inventory movements using inventory control system.
• Fill independent demands for material requisitions.
• Ensure FIFO is followed for all transactions.
• Monitors equipment or processes and reports problems to supervisor.
• Keeps area safe, clean and organized.
• Unload items to be stocked in warehouses and or storage yards.
• Verify inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock, and investigate discrepancies or adjust errors.
• Perform domestic and international shipping activities.
• Package and stock finished goods items.
• Performs other related duties as required or assigned.

• None.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information.
• Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
• Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work. 
• Completes some moderately repetitive tasks.
• Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats.
• Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

• Equivalent of four years of high school (preferred).

• Basic

• Forklift Certification.

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is:
• Continually required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Regularly required to sit or stand and to walk.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is:
  • Regularly subjected to work near moving mechanical parts and to indoor temperature variations in a manufacturing environment.
  • Occasionally subjected to fumes or airborne particles, as well as toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Franklin Electric