Warehouse Sales Associate - career opportunity

Warehouse Sales Associate - career opportunity

31 May 2024
California, Visalia-tulare, 93277 Visalia-tulare USA

Warehouse Sales Associate - career opportunity

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The primary function of this role is to ensure timely and accurate shipping and receiving of all materials, manage inventory and stock in an organized and efficient manner, and maintain the premises of the warehouse, loading/unloading areas, and the warehouse yard.

Minimum Educational and Experience Qualifications/Requirements:

- High school diploma or equivalency

- Three-five years in a back of house/warehouse environment

- Experience or exposure in the fields of agricultural sales, purchasing, light manufacturing or citrus production and processing

- Must have warehouse experience

- Forklift certification

- Effective time management skills

- Must be fast paced, highly energetic, a self- starter and possess a positive attitude

- Must be willing and able to lift up to 60 lbs. and handle bulky items. Occasionally, lift

items up to 80 lbs.

- Bilingual ability (English/Spanish) desirable

- Proof of American citizenship and/or legal US work status

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

- Adhere to all processes documented in receiving SOP’s

- Receive all incoming material within 24 hours

- Generate pallet tags for all incoming material

- Stock the warehouse with incoming material always adhering to bin locations, ensures accuracy of placement

- Follow first in/first out process when loading material

- Reconcile actual product shipped against vendor’s packing list, noting and reporting damage or discrepancies

- Matches vendor packing list to FGS purchase order noting and reporting discrepancies

- Stocks material(s) away in assigned location using the FIFO inventory system

- Prepares items to be shipped to customers and vendors

- Creates shipper’s bill of lading for materials being shipped

- Disburses paperwork through the appropriate channel to ensure proper records can be maintained

- Identifies and reports inventory discrepancies

- Timely communication with Buyers regarding status of direct order

- Conducts cycle counts as required (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)

- Maintains and updates inventory locations as required

- Keep all aisles and receiving area clean, swept, and unobstructed

- Empty trash cans as needed and breakdown cardboard boxes

- Check all areas for unsafe conditions, reporting and correcting if possible 

- Must be certified to operate all types of forklifts utilized at the facility

- Perform daily forklift maintenance/safety checks and document checklist

- Performs refueling procedures (propane)

- Must be trained in battery recharging procedures

- Prepares and conducts physical inventory

- Ability to be self-motivated, initiator and be part of a team who wants to succeed

- Manages attendance according to company policy

The performance of these responsibilities presumes full attention to:

- Complying with all the Company policies and procedures.

- Maintaining the integrity of and professional image of the Company in dealing with other

- Company employees and customer representatives.

General Responsibilities and Skills: Subject to Change

- Ability to handle numerous and challenging projects simultaneously (multi task)

- Ability to develop effective relationships with Company personnel and customers

- Ability to act all times professionally and respectfully toward co-workers and third parties with whom the company does business.

- Maintain consistency in work habits and interactions with co-workers and third parties.

- Maintain dependability standards set by management.

- Maintain regular attendance and excellent punctuality.

- Comply with all Company and departmental policies and procedures; alert management to ethical violations.

- Interact face-to-face, by phone or by electronic means with member packinghouses, co-workers, team members, management and other Company personnel on a daily basis to accomplish duties and responsibilities.

- Communicate well with others in accomplishing assigned tasks/functions.

- Work collaboratively with others.

- Cope well with pressure.

- Be service oriented.

- Act with honesty and integrity toward the Company, its employees and customers.

Fruit Growers Supply Company is a dynamic organization and is continually changing to meet the needs of our customers. The duties of our employees will change as the needs of the company change. This job description, while highly descriptive of the representative duties of the position, is not meant to be all inclusive. Other duties may arise which are not specifically written. It is expected that employees will follow all reasonable and legal instructions of their supervisor when asked.

Fruit Growers Supply Company was established in 1907 by the Sunkist Marketing Cooperative. We are the oldest non-profit supply cooperative in the nation andprovide growers and packing houses with supply chain support throughout California and Arizona. We solve their problems by offering integrated services and products that can’t be found anywhere else within a single organization. We perform irrigation design, manufacture fruit wax, boxes, and pallets, and sell agricultural supplies.

At Fruit Growers Supply Company, we believe that our strength and longevity is a result of the hard work and dedication from our employee’s contributions. We foster a safe and respectful work environment with diversity and inclusion for all employees. We aim to achieve a strong work/life balance for everyone by providing wellness education and benefits including holiday, vacation and sick time. We believe that when our employees are happy, so are our customers.

Your health and welfare are important to us and your benefits are an integral component to your overall compensation. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D insurance, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance programs, voluntary benefits for legal, short-term disability, pet insurance, identity theft coverage, employee-paid critical illness, and family care solutions for children and elderly.

Apply today and join the Fruit Growers Family!

Fruit Growers Supply Companyis an equal opportunity employer. Employment opportunities are open to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, immigration status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic characteristics, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. AAP/M/F/V/D

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