What are the responsibilities and job description for the 3PL DC Warehouse Specialist position at Industries of the Blind?
Job Summary
The Warehouse Specialist ensures that the daily functions and procedures runs smoothly and efficiently.
Essential Duties
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Fulfills orders, packages items for shipment and arrange delivery pickups
- Responsible for the loading and unloading of materials and products, verifies the quantity of items received against invoices
- Keeps detailed shipping and receiving logs to account for all materials that enter and leave the warehouse
- Under the direction of the warehouse supervisor, this position is responsible for the daily monitoring of inventory storage and product flow processes.
- Performs precise and detailed investigations of storage locations to ensure accuracy of contents.
- Performs daily cycle counts of storage locations
- Reports, investigates, and resolves discrepancies
- Research the causes of the identified discrepancies and recommends solutions.
- Performs daily inspections of bin locations on a rotating basis to confirm the accuracy of its contents.
- Utilizing morning reports directs “pull downs” from high rack storage in preparation for picking and restocks as needed
- Performing pre-count and tagging activities in preparation of physical inventories.
- Assists in the maintenance of neat and orderly storage locations and is responsible for good safety and housekeeping practices.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- None
Required Skills and Abilities
- Requires broad knowledge of warehouse and distribution operations
- Ability to operate a computer utilizing a variety of computer software for research and data entry
- Advanced math and accounting skills
- Able to follow strict specifications
- Must pay close attention to details
- Ability to work at a pace to meet IOBs standards
- Must be honest, energetic, hard-working, and be an excellent communicator, both verbally and written
- Strong computer skills and ability to learn new ones
- Must be detail oriented, extremely organized
- Willing to write things down and learn new systems
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Participate in a safe work environment
- Demonstrate high quality work performance
- Ability to stand and use external dexterities for an entire shift
Education and Experience
- 2 years’ experience performing warehouse duties or utilizing a warehouse management system
- A high school diploma or equivalent required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
Physical Requirements
- Requires good manual dexterity and the ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, and kneel for prolonged periods throughout the workday
- Must be willing and able to perform several types of tasks
- Able to lift 50 lbs.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
