SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Duties & Responsibilities
Staging (order preparation)
- Direct and coordinate the staging assistants into ensuring they put the orders correctly.
- Check that all products are organised as per client requirements
- Ensure that the area is ready for work processing
- Raise any discrepancies with warehouse picking departments and inform supervisor
- Organise and prioritise orders according to the plans provided by the Distribution Department.
- Ensure that all products are staged accurately and efficiently as per customer requirements
- Check that all documentation details match actual order details.
- Ensure staging assistants are updated on plans to be staged
- Update the Staging Controller regarding the status of staging orders in progress
- Ensure orders are presented to dispatch for loading timeously.
Quality control
- Ensures that stock is in good quality
- Performs quality checks on orders picked
- Liaise with warehouse for any shortfalls
- Ensure stock does not get damaged when being prepared
- Check if correct products and the right quantity match the details of the customer order
- Evaluate the correctness and quality of orders by comparing the contents with the information on the picking slip, e.g. title, quality, ref number, quantity etc.
Food Safety
- Ensure warehouse equipment is properly maintained.
- Handle stock correctly according to food safety.
- Enforce compliance to food safety policies and procedures.
- Perform all work in accordance with company standards and established safety procedures.
- Ensure appearance and uniform is compliant with food safety requirements.
- Maintain safe working environment according to company food safety procedures.
- Familiarise yourself with the food safety rules and hazards and report any risk
- Comply with food safety rules of no stock on the floor, no stock against walls, etc.
- Report any observation of pests and non-conformance.
Health and Safety
- Maintain a clean and safe work area.
- Perform warehouse duties in accordance with the highest level of safety and efficiency and meets standards of quality.
- To use stacking techniques that will prevent damage to product
- To keep warehouse spotless clean, organized and safe. Respect safety measurements and highlight unsafe situations.
- Storage equipment kept clean meeting warehouse standards.
- Ensuring excellent housekeeping in storage areas.
- Ensuring work areas are kept clean, neat and well-organized
- Maintain safe working environment according to company procedures.
Additional Tasks
- Assist dispatch to load trucks.
- Assist warehouse with stock takes and replenishing
- Warehouse house keeping .
Requirements & Qualifications
- Minimum Grade 12
- 1 to 2 years’ experience in warehouse operations in medium to large scale Warehouse environment
- Proven experience to any role or duties relating to warehousing and stock control
- Knowledge and experience in safety practices and procedures applicable to handling of food products.
- FMCG experience highly advantageous
- First Aid Training/Certification (If not currently held, the company will provide training upon employment)
