JOB SUMMARY

This is an Operations position responsible for performing product receiving activities, operating and maintaining equipment associated with warehouse activity and performing other related duties as required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Check, inspect, examine and count all products being unloaded for quality and quantity against purchase orders
• Inform warehouse management and merchandising of any discrepancies on purchase orders
• Ensure that the drivers are backed up to the proper door and their trailers are secure before unloading begins
• Document all overages, shortages, and damages
• Inform warehouse management and merchandisers when trucks are late for scheduled appointment times
• Ensure that all unwanted product is returned to the truck
• Ensure that the drivers’ signature is on all paperwork
• Sign all necessary paperwork before releasing the truck
• Works with the lumper service to ensure the timely unloading of the trucks
• Cleans dock area as needed
• Performs other warehouse duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• High school education.

Experience

• Up to one year with Sysco
• Pallet Jack and Forklift Certification from Sysco

Professional Skills

• Adapts to changes in the work environment
• Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events
• Must display exceptional time management skills
• Must be dependable, accountable and ethical to work while upholding organizational values
• Must have great interpersonal skills and work well with others
• Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; Measures self against standard of excellence
• Follows policies and procedures
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, self-monitors to ensure quality output
• Meets productivity standards
• Observes safety and security procedures
• Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines
• Reports potentially unsafe conditions
• Uses equipment and materials properly
• Contributes to building a positive team spirit
• Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives
• Must be able to explain work in a written and verbal format
• Must have exceptional computing/mathematical skills
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
• Basic computer skills

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear
• Regularly lift and /or move up to 50 -75 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions
• Exposed to moving mechanical parts
• Frequently exposed to high, precarious places
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.