FULL TIME Inventory Control Associate

1. Oversees vendors bringing merchandise in and out of store. Receives, checks, counts and records all incoming merchandise and checks outgoing merchandise to be returned to vendors. Compares identifying information and verifies counts or weight of incoming merchandise against bills of lading, invoices, orders or other records.

2. Ensures product is in saleable condition. Rejects damaged items, records shortages and enters data or merchandise received into the system for proper billing. Also responsible for reducing damaged merchandise within store.

3. Plays major role in shrink reduction through minimizing waste and damages, taking care of damaged or distressed merchandise according to established company procedures and ensuring receiving procedures are properly followed and enforced.

4. Is responsible for backroom security and work area organization. Maintains records used for tracking store inventories.

5. Keeps work area clean to comply with established health and sanitation requirements. Maintains and follows company safety standards and ensures that equipment used for receiving and moving merchandise to storage or sales floor is in safe operating condition.

6. Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors. Responsible to continuously improve job performance.

7. May assist Non-Perishable Manager with baling cardboard (must be over 18 years of age and properly trained training provided) or other related duties. May work in other departments as needed.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met regularly to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The associate is regularly required to do the following activities:

▪ Walk- move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work station to another.

▪ Balance, Stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.

▪ Climb stairs and/or ladders.

▪ Stand dynamically to perform a function and move to perform another.

▪ Stand statically in one place to perform a function without changing location.

▪ Reaching- Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction

▪ Lift up to fifty (50) pounds and carry a distance of twenty (20) feet.

▪ Push and/or pull up to fifty (50) pounds a distance of twenty (20) feet

▪ Talk and hear; verbally express ideas and impart information or instructions.

▪ Use hands to finger, grasp, and/or feel; the ability to pick, pinch with fingers, type, seize, hold, apply pressure, or turn with hands; and perceive attributes of objects and materials, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with fingertips.

▪ Visual:

▪ Close- clear vision at 20 inches or less

▪ Distance- clear vision at 20 feet or more

▪ Color- ability to identify and distinguish colors

▪ Peripheral- ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point

▪ Depth- three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships.

▪ Adjust focus- ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus after looking at something at a closer or greater distance.