Inventory Specialist FT

Service

• Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated increasing confidence and loyalty.
• Performs daily and weekly store walks, audits and ensures reports are completed to confirm product in-stock conditions are at company standards.

Leadership

• Completes daily and weekly administrative tasks (communications, online training, etc.).
• Assists in the planning, and organizing of the inventory process.
• Ensures reclaim, transfers, discards, and date checks are handled to reduce shrink.
• Reviews and researches excessive back-stock to determine root cause and correct the data if needed.

Financial

• Promotes trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job specific information.
• Adheres to all local, state and federal laws, and company guidelines.

Compliance & Safety

• Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation and productivity are maintained.
• Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
• Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access.
• Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management.
• Notifies management of customer or employee accidents.
• Reports all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud.
• Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
• Cultivates a culture of safety within the store.
• Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training.
• Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required.
• Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Qualifications

• Preferred: High School / GED
• 3–6 years minimum relevant experience preferred
• Must be 18 years of age
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check
• Strong customer service skills
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational and communication skills
• Knowledge of basic math
• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Proficient with computer applications used in effectively operating the department
• English required; English & Spanish preferred

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet.
• Frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift loads up to 50 lbs.
• Occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and climb up to 30 ft.
• May be exposed to indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid working conditions.
• Frequently required to twist back and/or neck, walk on slippery or cluttered floor surfaces, work with hazardous equipment and be exposed to sharp objects.
• Occasionally exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions and other toxins.
• Equipment used: cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment (racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts); preferred: baler/compactor, box cutter.
• Personal Protective Equipment: goggles, gloves, back brace.
• Pulling requirement: 250 lbs.
• Occasional travel; varied shifts.

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