Warehouse Worker/Driver - Lksd Bethel

Summary

Receiving all incoming freight, coordinating outgoing shipments by calling satellite units and completing orders via phone. Purchasing, receiving, inventory, storing, and associated record keeping of food service and housekeeping products and supplies as well as performing general cleaning and floor maintenance duties. This position also performs a variety of food preparation, stocking and serving duties in a school kitchen, storeroom, dining or serving area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains storerooms, shelves, loading docks, and walk in coolers by properly laying out and rotating products.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or from pallets, trays, racks, vehicles, or shelves.
• Provides a variety of products to other personnel as they are needed. Continually keeps accurate inventories/records of materials on hand.
• Tracks weekly inventories from various Villages, inputs data and adheres to timelines.
• Works with other personnel to make sure all products and supplies will be available and ready as needed.
• Reads work order or follows oral instructions to ascertain materials to be moved.
• Orders materials, products and supplies as they drop below established levels or as called for by others.
• Using field-developed methods keeps accurate records of invoices on purchases as well as initiates and monitors claims to shippers or vendors.
• Inspects deliveries for conformity to standards, quantity/quality ordered.
• Counts, weighs, and records number of units of materials moved or handled.
• Delivers, unloads, loads, stocks, cleans, rotates, or picks up materials or product from various locations.
• On a regular basis, maintains, cleans, sweeps, mops, etc. coolers, floors, storerooms, loading docks, shelves, etc.
• May handle special food service related projects. May prepare and clean products to be stored.
• May assist in maintaining the cleanliness of other associated areas.
• Cleans work area, machines, and equipment and keeps assigned areas neat, safe, and orderly.
• Stack, assemble, or band materials together.
• Uses various types of hand trucks to facilitate movement of materials or products.
• May operate industrial truck or electric hoist to assist in loading or moving materials and products.
• May assist others such as food service personnel with their general day-to-day activities.
• Will be responsible for shipping supplies/food out to the villages.
• Washes objects by hand or with cleaning equipment.
• May clean dishes, utensils, pots, pans etc. and places in assigned storage areas in an organized and orderly manner.
• Maintains a variety of products at certain levels in preparation, serving, or storage areas including service machines.
• Stocks storage areas with various products.
• Cleans, sweeps, wipes down, etc. all general dining, kitchen, or storage areas (in some cases), spike rooms, and equipment as well as all floors.
• Removes garbage from assigned areas, sets up or breaks down tables, snack bars, display cases, serving lines, etc.
• Assists with various periodically scheduled large cleaning projects.
• Assists cooks and others as needed and coordinates one's own activities with other's.
• May occasionally prepare food or cook vegetables, entrees, coffee, sauces, meats, etc.
• Other duties that are pertinent to the department or unit's success also may be assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Able to efficiently operate a computer terminal and to properly complete a significant amount of inventory and purchasing paperwork duties.
• A valid Alaskan driver's license and a 3 year driving record acceptable to the company's insurance carrier.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least one year of experience which evidences a knowledge of purchasing, material handling, inventory, stocking, the shipping and receiving of perishable items, or of cleaning processes and equipment. 

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

Weather: Indoor/Outdoor

Noise level:  Moderate to Loud

Office conditions:  Pace of work environment: Medium

                              Customer Interaction: Medium

Description of environment: School setting

Constantly required to walk and stand.  Frequently required to lift, pull and push.  Occasionally required to climb.  Rarely in cramped or confined spaces.

Physical requirements: Frequently required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Travel: None

Competencies

NMS Core Values

Safety guides our behavior.

Honesty and integrity govern our activities.

Commitments made will be fulfilled.

All individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

The environment will be protected and sustained.