Inventory Associate

About the role

The Inventory Associate will maintain smooth operations of all day-to-day operations as they relate to receiving, order selecting, bin slotting, and sanitation. The Inventory Associate provides exceptional customer service and supports first-shift receiving and Operations programs as needed. Adhere to PACT values. (Purpose: Using our strengths passionately to contribute to our mission. Accountability: Choosing to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrating ownership to achieve results. See It. Own It. Solve It. Do It. Courage: Standing up for what’s right and acting. Transparency: Doing things openly and honestly).

Responsibilities

• Reliable, consistent attendance is a requirement; punctuality and dependable attendance to meet business needs, including attending and taking part in meetings and presentations.
• Assists with the physical count process, as directed by the Manager.
• Cycle counts products, purchased donations, and USDA commodities.
• Identifies all products not received into the system before inventory cutoff time and tags with do not count tags.
• Ensures all products are tagged, with barcode tags and pallets in bin locations.
• Completes the racking of products from the receiving area into the warehouse.
• Cycle counts pick bins and researches all shortages and missed picks.
• Recoups all damaged products found during the cycle counts process.
• Maintains proper recordkeeping of missing product and pallet tags.
• Ensures old products are marked and given to the Produce Movement Specialist to ensure they are distributed on time.
• Supports Volunteer Services in pulling and verifying products for projects and helps with Saturday coverage and coverage during periods when the Houston Food Bank (HFB) has large volumes of volunteers.
• Completes Receiving Order Detail Sheets (RODS) to ensure quantities are recorded correctly.
• Completes all paperwork in a timely fashion.
• Communicates effectively with staff and management on inventory discrepancies and issues.
• Maintains a clean and friendly work environment and warehouse by completing sanitation lists.

Requirements

Education/Experience: High School Diploma from an accredited school or general education development (GED) certificate; 1+ years’ experience in receiving or other inventory/warehousing-related work required; experience in food warehousing preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, And Registrations: NA.

Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Must be able to work in different temperature-controlled environments including dry warehouse, cooler, produce room, and freezer warehouse areas; must be able to perform basic mathematical functions such as addition and multiplication; strong customer service skills and willingness to assist others; able to communicate complex information clearly; attention to detail; strong problem-solving abilities; ability to work with a diverse population; able to coordinate well with other departments and staff; ability to operate all types of warehouse machinery (standup & sit-down forklifts, long & short pallet jacks, manual jacks, computers, copiers, and other business equipment).

Compliance: Carries out responsibilities in accordance with HFB policies.

Reasoning Ability: 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.

Competencies: Action-Oriented / Customer Focus / Drives for Results / Informing / Approachability / Learning on the Fly / Perseverance / Self-development / Listening / Peer Relationships / Integrity and Trust / Functional/Technical Skills.

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required daily to analyze and interpret data, communicate, and remain in a standing or stationary position for a significant amount of the workday; and often access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The employee must regularly move about the warehouse and around the facility, use hands, wrists, and fingers to grip, type, and write. The employee must frequently lift 50 pounds. The employee will need to have the average ability to hear horns, warnings, and