1st Shift Shipping & Receiving Associate - Medina

About the role

This role focuses on unloading/receiving, storing, and loading/shipping purchased goods. Responsibilities vary by tier, reflecting appropriate levels of expertise and achievement of desired results.

Responsibilities

• Manage cleanliness of department and grounds.
• Maintain a safe working environment; observe all OSHA and Company safety policies.
• Generate and identify Corrective Action reports and Opportunities for Improvement reports.
• Follow all ISO requirements; ensure ISO documentation is current and adhered to.
• Operate tow motor safely and efficiently; conduct forklift inspection at the beginning of each shift.
• Report all instances of damages, lost material, or other issues immediately.
• Keep management abreast of significant issues or developments that impact quality, safety, health, or environmental.
• Perform physical inventory and verification of condition of product as requested.
• Other duties as assigned by the Shipping & Receiving Supervisor.

Shipping Associate (Tier I)

• Pull orders for staging and shipping.
• Responsible for order accuracy before loading.
• Inspect outbound materials and packaging.
• Perform row consolidation and record material movements.
• Generate inventory and shipping labels using Company-provided label software.
• Perform stock put away/material handling.
• Manage cleanliness of all staging areas and general warehouse.
• Maintain OCS bins.

Dock Associate (Tier II)

• Inspect loading and unloading operations to ensure compliance with shipping and receiving specifications.
• Inspect trailers prior to loading and unloading to ensure safe material handling and transport of goods.
• Responsible for order accuracy before and during loading.
• Perform loading and unloading of packaged goods.
• Seal loaded trailers upon request.
• Manage cleanliness of docks inside and outside of building.

Receiving & Work Orders Associate (Tier III)

• Compare vendor, returned material, and Company documents for proper receipt.
• Inspect deliveries to ensure they match the order criteria and are undamaged.
• Record all inbound goods on the proper receipt reports.
• Inspect inbound and returned materials; identify contaminations by visual inspection.
• Perform necessary segregation and down stacking of damaged product.
• Responsible for pulling samples and transport of the samples to the lab for all inbounded product.
• Initiate and complete Row Charts.
• Generate inventory and shipping labels using Company-provided label software.
• Manage cleanliness of workstations.
• Conduct packaged goods to packaged goods work orders as assigned.

Zone Lead (Tier IV)

• Responsible for order accuracy for inbound and outbound shipments.
• Generate inventory and shipping labels using Company-provided label software.
• Assist with training of employees.
• Ensure all inbound paperwork is accurate and has the correct documentation before submitting to the inventory department for entry.
• Accurately and legibly complete warehouse receiver tally sheets, samples, row charts, and Misc. Charge forms.

Requirements

• High school diploma preferred; or three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of three years forklift experience.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to round to nearest whole number.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Work Environment / Conditions

• Must be comfortable working in a shared space, with constant noise.
• Schedules may vary from week to week based on business demands in excess of 40 hours with or without notice.
• All injuries regardless of severity must be reported to your Supervisor/HR immediately.

Physical Requirements / Demands

• Regularly required to communicate verbally, read, and comprehend information.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Regularly required to travel by foot, forklift, golf cart, or other means of transportation which require sitting, waiting, and standing for long and short periods of time.
• On occasion, duties may require bending and lifting 55 lbs.