Receiving Clerk

About the role

Responsible for the proper receiving and tagging for stock activities, insuring the proper quantity and quality of product is received. This position has a 1am start time. This position supports AWG’s mission to remain firmly committed to our long-established mission statement: “Our mission is to ensure the success of our member retailers and provide opportunities to our employees. This will be accomplished by satisfying the customers’, and our member retailers’, needs for quality supermarket merchandise and superior support services. We will do this with high quality employees whose mission is to provide the lowest possible cost of goods in order to ensure our members profitability, competiveness and continued growth.”

Responsibilities

• Verify driver's purchase order with the receiving schedule for schedule appointment.
• Compare bill of lading versus receiving document.
• Check completed paperwork for variances.
• Check product for contamination and or infestation.
• Stamp the bill of lading and note shortages.
• Give copy of paperwork to driver and file remaining paperwork.
• Tag the pallet of product with proper pallet tag.
• Communicate with supervisor any issues and concerns relating to position.
• Keep area clean.
• Work as a member of the AWG team so the total job responsibilities are met.
• Actions must always stress a sense of cooperation, integrity, tact and consideration with our members, associates and division management.

Qualifications

High school diploma preferred; prior warehouse experience plus warehouse mobile equipment operating experience preferred.

Skills

• Language Skills: Ability to read and speak fluent English. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating instructions, procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence relating to position.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and apply concepts of basic math and algebra.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Posses the ability to work with coworkers and gain mutual respect with a common goal of increasing sales and profitability.

Requirements

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Must have the ability to operate safely warehouse mobile equipment.

Work Environment: Indoors, with adequate cooling, heating, and adequate lighting. Outdoors as needed. Working in warehouse environment with moderate noise due to industrial mobile equipment operation and varied temperatures based on assigned work area. Temperatures will vary based on outside temperatures for the non-air-conditioned section and cool temperatures ranging from -15 to the upper 40's for the perishable sections.