What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Receiving Position position at Green Acres Nursery and Supply?
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The Inventory Receiving Position is responsible for all tasks related to receiving product and goods, inventory maintenance, freight flow, managing backstock areas, and cost controls. This includes all of our live plant product, as well as all other product lines such as deco, pottery, garden solutions products, soils and outdoor living furniture, grills, firepits, etc.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities::
- Manage the intake and logging of incoming goods, inspecting shipments for accuracy and damage, updating inventory records, ensuring proper storage or distribution of product.
- Ensure timely completion of the receiving process
- Ensure compliance with all company processes related to receiving and inventory.
- Proactively coordinate with store and department managers to facilitate the receipt of deliveries.
- Assist with the offloading of delivery trucks and ensure proper receiving practices are occurring.
- Check and validate POs, goods received, invoices, packing slips, or similar related to the documentation, processing or control of inventory.
- Proactively support movement of inventory and communicating information related to price changes, special sales, etc.
- Be knowledgeable about product and its location on the property.
- Assist as needed or directed with plant maintenance (watering, deadheading, etc.), general store maintenance (sweeping, dust, bathroom and other cleaning, etc.), and other tasks.
- Engage with and assist customers, providing excellent customer service.
- Strong organizational skills, prioritization skills, and attention to detail.
- Weekend availability and flexibility regarding shifts and hours.
- Willingness to learn and develop - proactively increase knowledge about our products, locations and procedures related to inventory management.
- Willing and able to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Able to interact pleasantly and courteously with customers, provide excellent customer service and comfortable promoting sales of our products.
Physical Demands:
- Prolonged standing and walking up to 100% of shift
- Bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, reaching, stretching, squatting and kneeling – primarily in relation to movement and placement of product and assisting customers with product, as well as with use of pallet jacks and/or forklifts for moving product
- Exposure to all types of weather
Our Company is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, medical condition, disability, marital status, military service, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company’s Human Resources Department if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.