Job Details

Job Summary

Accurately identifies, verifies, records and receives inbound shipments and insures product and packaging quality. Receivers work with and instruct other individuals in ensuring proper sorting, segregating, staging and flowing of inbound products.

Responsibilities

• Accurately identify, verify, record and receive inbound shipments.
• Ensure product and packaging quality.
• Work with and instruct others in ensuring proper sorting, segregating, staging and flowing of inbound products.

Qualifications

Education

• High school diploma or General Education Development (GED), or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

• Up to 1 year related warehouse experience or training.
• Previous forklift operation experience.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Must be trained and certified for operating a forklift.

Professional Skills

• Ability to work with specific computer software, specifically Sysco Warehouse Management System (SWMS) and Gagnon.
• Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Work efficiently at a rapid pace.
• Good attendance.
• Can work in a team atmosphere.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend simple but detailed instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

Mathematical Skills

• Can add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurements, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability

• Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but involved written or oral instructions.
• Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand.
• Frequently required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk, see and hear.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee frequently is required to walk, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Food and Beverage Services