Receiving Clerk

About the Role

Receives shipments and prepares items for shipment.

Responsibilities

• Assembles orders and prepares shipments.
• Records shipment data, including weight, charges, and space availability.
• Loads and unloads trucks.
• May complete shipping and receiving reports.
• Verifies quantity, quality, labeling, and addressing of products and items of merchandise ready for shipment.
• Compares items packed with customer’s order and other identifying data.
• Counts, measures, or weighs articles to verify contents of shipments against bills of lading, invoices, or storage receipts.
• May examine articles for defects and sort articles according to extent of defect.
• Reports damages and discrepancies.
• May attach identification data onto article.
• May record factors causing goods to be returned.
• Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules, including wearing required personal safety equipment.
• Performs other duties and activities as required.

Requirements

• May require a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• May require previous years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Has knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
• Works under immediate supervision.
• Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment.
• Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to reach, stand, walk, finger, grasp, feel, talk, hear, see, and perform repetitive motions.
• Ability to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, use hands or fingers, grip, grasp, feel, talk, hear, see, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Ability to sit at a desk and operate a computer for extended periods of time.
• The ability to lift and carry 15 lbs. on a regular basis is required, and at times lifting up to 25 lbs. may be required.