Associate Warehouse Technician

37037733 Associate Warehouse Technician, Athens, GA 6 months CTH

Sigma Inc. is currently looking for a warehouse technician to work on-site in Athens, GA.

• Shift time: 1 st shift
• Hours: 7am to 4pm Monday-Friday

Responsibilities

• Operates the inventory management and control systems to receive, supply, transfer, take inventory, record cycle counts, and store materials and/or products while maintaining accurate inventories both physically and systemically.
• Prepares expired and/or obsolete inventory for destruction.
• Receives and inspects raw materials, packaging materials, semi-finished and finished products from suppliers, purchase orders, or production orders and/or transfers using inventory control and management systems and mechanical equipment such as forklifts, order pickers, electric and manual pallet jacks, etc., as well as auxiliary materials for the operation, respecting accurate real-time data entry into SAP.
• Performs accurate real-time data entry into SAP to receive inventory items and capture inventory-related transactions; ensures adherence to the First Expiry–First Out (FEFO) policy, expired materials receive proper attention, and requesting departments are properly debited for materials as directed by the supervisor or SR Technician.
• Identify, by affixing labels, all the materials and products received; perform the proper packaging of each pallet, box, or shipping vessel or container; and perform the delivery of materials to the corresponding warehouse. Service quality requirements for sampling (request for materials to be sampled).
• Orders supporting materials such as additional materials, including but not limited to, labels, packing materials, etc.
• Prepares and transfers products or materials (shipment to production, export, external warehouse, etc.) from approved inventories to local or intercompany available cost centers or storage locations, including logging and preparing required documentation, including signatures, following GDPs.
• Responsible for Service Quality requirements for sampling (request for materials to be sampled.)
• Ability to navigate successfully in the SAP system, learning all relevant screens applicable to the warehouse position, including but not limited to material inventory queries, bin-to-bin transfers, TO and TR orders, and basic data entry adjustments to warehouse inventory. Use of the barcode scanners, printers, and label printers.
• Keeps the work area (all warehouse locations, coolers, and freezers) clean and tidy (everything in place) always.
• Stays trained and current in quality systems (LOS)

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED. 3-5 years of warehouse or relevant manufacturing/production/material handling experience.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required)
• Understanding of the fundamentals of metric system measurement.
• Communication skills are needed to respond to internal quality checks and audit findings and to carry out day-to-day customer service.
• Intermediate knowledge of SAP, WCS, or similar ERP storage systems.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Skilled in operating electric and manual pallet jacks, forklifts, and other orders. picking equipment with forklift certification.
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to follow procedures.
• Organized with attention to detail and a teamwork mindset.
• Basic 5S knowledge preferred.
• Inventory counting skills.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds unaided.
• Yellow belt desirable.
• Ability to work at least one weekend per month on an "on call " basis.