What are the responsibilities and job description for the Receiving Clerk position at Harps Food Stores?
PURPOSE STATEMENT: To receive/check-in merchandise, assure that merchandise received matches invoice, and return damages product for credit.
SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS:
REQUIRED:
Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/ dust/humidity.
SAFETY:
SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To prepare the back room for receipt of merchandise and unload trucks.
- To count and inspect merchandise and match to invoice.
- To keep receiving area secure and damage reclaim area neat and organized.
- To assure the safety of self, customers and co-workers by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately. Pick up/remove all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the backroom floor.
- To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers during peak periods of business.
- To understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and fork lift (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, fork lift and baler).
- To use stacking techniques that will prevent damage to product.
- To remove trash from area, operate the baler, put the compacted bale on a pallet and load salvage onto trucks.
QUALIFICATIONS:
REQUIRED:
- Basic mathematical ability (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and ability to count.
- Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/vendors concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
- Able to pass basic physical examination and drug screen.
- A stable work and educational history.
- The ability to read and write English. The able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, invoices, printed paper and forms.
- Make judgments concerning receiving, inspection of merchandise as to the extent of unsalable product damage, and the placement of case/pallets in storage and overhead racks.
- Able to move and stack product so that it will not be damaged.
- Good interpersonal communication skills.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Prior experience in a related type of job.
- Prior experience operating a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and fork lift. (Must be 18 years or older to operate pallet jacks, baler, and forklift.)
- Mobility:
- To move cases from truck/pallet to backroom for storage, approximately 50 yards.
- To stack cases on floor/skid/rack/shelf.
- To move cardboard/packing material to the baler, approximately 50 yards.
- To move excess cases/damaged product from damage storage area to the truck, approximately 50 yards.
- To move through the entire backroom of the store for supplies/product/ maintenance equipment and return, approximately 75 yards.
- Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours in duration.
- Lift and stack empty pallets from floor to 72 inches overhead.
- Lift a maximum of 100 lbs. from 6 inches to 48 inches.
- Lift a maximum of 75 lbs. from 6 inches to 84 inches on to overhead/backroom storage rack.
- Move cardboard into baler, approximately 4 feet. (Must be 18 years or older to move cardboard into baler.)
- Carry a maximum of 100 lbs. up to 15 feet.
- Pick up/move/sort/ (a/an) case/item/trash/from floor/shelf/ ground/pallet/rack storage.
- Use maintenance and product transportation equipment.
- Place merchandise/cases on the top of grocery overhead/backroom storage shelves/rack, up to 84 inches from the floor.
- Reach forward/down up to 36 inches to attain merchandise on stocking cart or pallets.
- Reach forward/down up to 36 inches to clean backroom shelves/floor area or control maintenance/stocking equipment.
- Reach forward/down/up to 36 inches to place cases on floor/shelving.
- Handle labels/signs/tags.
- Handle case cutter/utility knife.
- Grasp and handle wet/cold/hot/crushable/metal/paper/plastic store products.
- Handle cardboard/packaging and debris.
- Manipulate maintenance equipment handles/grasps/knobs.
- Twist at the waist while cleaning, sorting, load/unloading, moving/removing merchandise, stocking merchandise and cleaning work area.
- Kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, bend at the waist/knees to count and physically touch merchandise
- Move fully loaded stocking carts, pallet jacks (up to 1000 lbs.) and maintenance equipment approximately 75 yards.
- Climb on ladders, cases, shelving and stairs up to 15 feet in height.
- Balance on cases of product and overhead rack.
- Pick up cardboard, packaging and debris from floor.
- Perform maintenance and sanitation functions.
- See cases, vendors, case strips, invoices, computerized receiving displays, product size/description, labels on products, stocking carts, debris on floor, and signs.
- Perceive color difference on product labels.
- Recognize cleaning/maintenance equipment, pallet jacks, fork lifts, computerized receiving displays and baler controls.
- Respond to intercom.
- Respond to co-workers questions.
- Respond to vendor/driver questions/comments.
- Respond to the sound of baler/pallet jack/fork lift/cleaning equipment operation.
- Communicate with vendors/drivers.
- Use the intercom system.
- Communicate with co-workers.
- Read case labels/strips, signs, tags, shelf signs, numbers and aisle markers.
- Read equipment and chemical warning labels.
Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/ dust/humidity.
SAFETY:
- The employee will not use drugs or alcohol on the job.
- The employee will not create a direct threat to the health and safety of others on the job.
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