Warehouse Clerk-Inventory
1 day ago
Ronkonkoma
Job Description Coordinate daily inbound and outbound shipments with carriers, vendors, drivers, customers, and internal departments to support timely and accurate deliveries. Schedule and coordinate pickups, deliveries, dock appointments, freight appointments, and carrier requirements. Monitor shipment status and proactively communicate delays, shortages, damages, missed pickups, and delivery issues to the appropriate parties. Prepare, review, and maintain shipping and receiving documentation, including bills of lading, packing lists, shipping labels, manifests, proof of delivery, and other freight paperwork. Verify outgoing orders for accuracy, including product, quantities, labels, packaging, pallet counts, weights, dimensions, shipping addresses, and special handling requirements. Maintain effective communication with carriers and transportation providers and assist with resolving freight and delivery issues. Monitor priority orders, carrier cutoff times, and customer delivery requirements to support on-time shipping performance. Enter and maintain accurate shipping, receiving, inventory, and logistics information in the company’s warehouse management system, ERP/M3 system, CRM, Excel, and other company databases. Maintain accurate inventory records, including quantities, item locations, lot numbers, expiration dates, product identification, and other applicable tracking information. Conduct routine cycle counts, location audits, and annual physical inventory counts; investigate and report discrepancies, damaged materials, missing product, overages, shortages, and incorrect receipts. Reconcile physical inventory to system records and work with management to research and correct inventory variances. Support an organized and efficient warehouse layout by maintaining proper product locations, labeling, staging areas, storage racks, and inventory organization. Assist with receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, staging, loading, unloading, and other warehouse activities as needed. Operate warehouse equipment, including pallet jacks, hand trucks, scanners, label printers, and forklifts, when trained and authorized. Perform physical warehouse work, including standing, walking, bending, reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and moving materials and product as required. Maintain a clean, safe, and organized warehouse environment, including aisles, docks, storage racks, staging areas, equipment areas, and workstations. Follow company safety procedures and warehouse practices and promptly report unsafe conditions, damaged equipment, spills, product damage, or other operational concerns. Assist with warehouse housekeeping, rack and location organization, labeling, packaging material disposal, and general warehouse maintenance. Work collaboratively with warehouse, shipping, receiving, inventory, purchasing, customer service, and operations teams. Perform other warehouse, logistics, shipping, receiving, inventory, and operational duties as assigned. Physical and Work Environment Requirements • This position works primarily in a warehouse and shipping/receiving environment and requires regular interaction with warehouse operations and physical inventory., • Regularly required to stand, walk, bend, stoop, reach, climb, kneel, and move throughout the warehouse and shipping areas., • May be required to lift, carry, push, and pull materials, products, boxes, pallets, and other warehouse items., • Ability to work around forklifts, pallet jacks, loading docks, trucks, warehouse equipment, storage racks, and moving materials., • May be exposed to varying temperatures, warehouse noise, dust, and other conditions commonly associated with a manufacturing and warehouse environment., • Must follow all applicable safety procedures and wear required personal protective equipment (PPE)., • May be required to work overtime, extended hours, or adjusted schedules based on business and shipping needs., • Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.Preferred Skills, • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Outlook, Word, and Teams., • Ability to create, update, and maintain spreadsheets, inventory reports, shipment logs, and operational trackers., • Experience working with warehouse management, ERP, inventory, or logistics systems., • Strong problem-solving and follow-up skills with the ability to identify and resolve shipping, inventory, and operational issues., • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization., • Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills preferred, particularly when working with diverse warehouse and production teams.Qualifications and Education Requirements, • High school diploma or GED preferred., • Previous experience in warehousing, shipping and receiving, inventory control, logistics coordination, distribution, or a related field preferred., • Experience using warehouse management systems, ERP/M3 systems, inventory software, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and other data-entry or business systems., • Ability to read and understand purchase orders, packing slips, bills of lading, shipping labels, inventory reports, and related documentation., • Strong attention to detail and accuracy when handling product numbers, quantities, lot numbers, dates, inventory transactions, and shipping documentation., • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced warehouse environment., • Effective verbal and written communication skills when working with carriers, drivers, vendors, customers, warehouse associates, supervisors, and internal departments., • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while also functioning effectively as part of a warehouse and operations team., • Forklift certification or willingness to obtain certification., • Ability to safely perform the physical requirements of a warehouse environment, with or without reasonable accommodation.