Receiving Clerk

Job Purpose

A Receiving Clerk is responsible for maintaining inventory counts and quality control procedures for incoming and outgoing product shipments. Their duties include unloading delivery trucks and checking incoming shipments against product invoices, organizing, and storing shipments until they receive outgoing order requests and notifying management personnel when they don’t have enough of a particular product to fulfill orders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Properly accounting for the location of incoming goods.
• Assuring no damaged items are sent or received.
• Comparing packing lists to company purchase orders and ensuring that the products in      each delivery match the packing list.
• Updating the product inventory as products are received and added to the inventory.
• Packaging products for return to vendors and filling out any paperwork necessary.
• Assist with loading boats as time allows. 
• Perform other duties, assignments and responsibilities as needed.

Competencies: 

• Be able to identify product by size, type, style, color, or product code. 
• Solid reading skills – must be able to read orders/match orders on shipping tickets to items picked.
• Basic math skills and reasoning skills. 
• Ability to understand and execute instructions. 
• General understanding of the warehouse.
• Ability to maintain accurate records.
• Experience operating heavy machinery.
• Certification of power-truck equipment. 

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled environment.
• Must be able to bend at waist and knees and stand for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to wear proper safety equipment.
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Regularly lift and/or move objects 10-50lbs occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 100 lbs.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus.
• Able to withstand temperatures in a typical warehouse environment.
• Position may require climbing of ladders for top-level selection.
• This is a safety sensitive position

Qualification Requirements:

• High School diploma or equivalent preferred.
• 1-2 yrs. previous warehouse experience preferred.
• Effective communication, organizational, time management mathematical skills.
• Dependable and Reliable.