Warehouse Clerk

Organization Requirement
A warehouse clerk to operate a start-up e-commerce Caribbean snack food and beverage hospitality distribution space.
Job Description
Responsible for maintaining daily operations of the warehouse distribution facility.

Hourly Wage

Based on experience.
Basic Skills

• Receiving, storing, and distributing goods and materials from popup shops and vendors
• Keeping track of inventory levels and ensuring the accuracy of records
• Picking and packing orders for shipment
• Loading and unloading deliveries
• Operating and maintaining warehouse equipment
• Coordinating with other departments and staff to ensure smooth operations.
• Ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and company policies
• Resolving issues related to delivery, storage of goods, and popup shop operation.
• The job may also require experience with data entry, using computer systems and databases to track inventory levels and shipping information.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Willingness to learn basic POS systems.
• Time management and organizational skills

Social Skills

• Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Being able to compose oneself in stressful and overwhelming situations.
• Good communication and organizational skills are also important for success in this role.
• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Complex Problem-Solving Skills

• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Technical Skills

• Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
• Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.

System Skills

• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Resource Management Skills

• Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Desktop Computer Skills

• Databases - Using a computer application to manage large amounts of information, including creating and editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information.
• Graphics - Working with pictures in graphics programs or other applications, including creating simple graphics, manipulating the appearance, and inserting graphics into other programs.
• Internet - Using a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations.
• Navigation - Using scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.
• Presentations - Navigating the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail (e-mail).
• Spreadsheets - Using a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.
• Word Processing - Using a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents

Detail Task/ Work Activities

• Be the central hub for all popup shop or event locations.
• Distribute and receive merchandise from event sales managers.
• Write and record orders for merchandise or enter orders into computers.
• Explain venue requirements and guidelines to sales managers.
• Contact event sales managers with any pertinent information helpful to operations success.
• Arrange issued merchandise and equipment for pickup by sales team.
• Answer questions about product features and benefits per customer or sales managers request.
• Circulate among amongst sales team the goals for each event one’s are assigned.
• Input email lists retrieved by sales team into e-commerce CRM.
• Order or purchase supplies.
• Working Directly with sales members and outside support.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Developing and Building Teams
• Getting Information
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Developing Objectives and Strategies

Tools

• Automobiles or cars
• Passenger vehicles
• Global positioning system GPS receiver
• Global positioning system GPS receivers
• Personal computers
• Personal computers
• Special purpose telephones
• Multi-line telephone systems
• Other equipment
• POS system reader
• Canopy (Tent)
• Product display tables (2)
• Product display Glass-case
• Marketing banner/flag
• Utensils and Toolbox
• Other

Technology

• Data base user interface and query software
• Data entry software
• Internet browser software
• Web browser software
• Office suite software
• Microsoft Office
• Route navigation software
• Route mapping software

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $13.00 - $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Yorktown, VA 23692: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Forklift: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Preferred)

Work Location: In person