Receiving Clerk

Job Title: Receiving Clerk

Department: Grocery

Reports to: Grocery Manager or Store Manager

Exempt Status: Non-exempt

Safety Sensitive:

JOB FUNCTION: To receive/check-in merchandise, assure that merchandise received matches invoice, and return damaged product for credit.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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, electric pallet jack and forklift (must be 18 years or older to operate the electric pallet jack, forklift and baler).
• To use stacking techniques that will prevent damage to product.
• To remove trash from area and operate the baler.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

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.
• 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.

PREFERRED:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience in a related type of job.
• Prior experience operating a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and forklift. (Must be 18 years or older to operate pallet jacks, baler, and forklift.)

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: N/A

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: N/A

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Basic mathematical ability (count, add, subtract, multiply, divide).

LANGUAGE SKILLS: N/A

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in circumstances where only limited standardization may exist.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in diagram, oral, schedule, or written forms.

OTHER SKILLS OR REQUIREMENTS:

• 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, forklifts, 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/forklift/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.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that are required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• 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.
• Move cardboard into baler, approximately 4 feet. (Must be 18 years or older to move cardboard into baler.)
• Pick up/move/sort/ (a/an) case/item/trash/from floor/shelf/ ground/pallet/rack storage.
• Use maintenance and product transportation equipment.
• 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
• Pick up cardboard, packaging, and debris from floor.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/ dust/humidity.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or the work environment change.