Purchasing Assistant Warehouse - Rotating Shift

PURCHASING ASSISTANT WAREHOUSE - AM 8 HOURS

Serves under Purchasing Supervisor.

• Retrieving, issuing, and documenting parts and materials as they are received and dispersed.
• Receiving and taking delivery of parts and materials.
• Delivering parts and materials.
• Operating a forklift.
• Load and unload product including bales of cardboard, chemicals, machinery, etc., placing them in warehouses and overhead storage racks.
• Unloading freight and chemicals from incoming deliveries.
• Dumping 2 cu yd dumpsters filled with trash, production residue, hide sludge, and other waste materials into open‑top trash dumpsters and trash compactors.
• Retrieving chemicals from chemical storage and racking and delivering to various departments.
• Taking daily or cyclical inventories.
• Verifying on‑hand inventories.
• Verifying incoming shipments of materials.
• Posting receivers on the computer system.
• Issuing materials from inventory on the computer system.
• Filing paperwork and documents by company name and numerical sequence.
• Hand‑writing issue slips and inventories requiring:
  • Legible penmanship
  • Ability to read and interpret details of labels and placards on materials.
  • Ability to write twelve (12) digit number sequences without transposing numbers.
• Finding parts and materials in the computer database for maintenance and other departments.
• Checking on‑hand computer balances.
• Finding locations and warehouses where parts are stored.
• Researching order histories including:
  • On‑order quantities
  • Requisition s and details including who the materials were ordered for.
  • Receiving histories.
  • Issue histories.
  • Return and repair histories.
  • Handling repairs and returned parts and materials.

• Strong work ethic, dependable, able to work independently (often without direct supervision).
• Strong cooperative attitude.
• Ability to speak and/or write Spanish (preferred).
• Strong computer skills.
• Familiarity with mechanical parts and materials (preferred).