Warehouse Technician - Warehouse Operations

Tasks

• Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.

• Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.

• Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.

• Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.

• Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.

• Verify inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock, and investigate discrepancies or adjust errors.

• Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.

• Provide assistance or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.

• Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.

• Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

• Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.

• Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.

• Prepare and maintain records and reports of inventories, price lists, shortages, shipments, expenditures, and goods used or issued.

• Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.

• Compile, review, and maintain data from contracts, purchase orders, requisitions, and other documents to assess supply needs.

• Prepare products, supplies, equipment, or other items for use by adjusting, repairing or assembling them, as necessary.

• Determine sequence and release of back orders according to stock availability.

• Confer with engineering and purchasing personnel and vendors regarding stock procurement and availability.

• Purchase new or additional stock, or prepare documents that provide for such purchases.

• Advise retail customers or internal users on the appropriateness of parts, supplies, or materials requested.

• Sell materials, equipment, and other items from stock in retail settings.

• Drive trucks to pick up incoming stock or to deliver parts to designated locations.