DELIVERY PROCESSING ASSOCIATE
Our Values: At Morris Furniture Company, our values represent our distinctive core beliefs-the Morris way of doing business. Our Mission is “Making Homes Great” and we bring our mission to life through our values of: Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity and Fun.
Purpose: The Delivery Processing Associate assists the Operations and Vendor Managers in day-to-day coordination, scheduling inbound and outbound deliveries, assisting in locating parts, vendor relations, contract interpretation, and other duties as needed.
General Description of duties: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
- Incorporates our values of Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity, and Fun into daily work life.
- Acts as a liaison between the company and any 3rd party carriers or vendors to ensure execution of promised deliveries.
- Ability to reinforce or substitute our receiving coordinator when necessary.
- Resolves discrepancies with accounting regarding invoices, packing slips, receiver reports, and other vendor or 3rd party disputes.
- Schedules incoming and outgoing freight and collaborates with various delivery drivers from our vendors and 3rd party carriers.
- Assists operations supervisors with 3rd party and vendor contract interpretation.
- Assists the receiving and shipping department in logging all incoming inventory purchases and loss prevention department with any investigation when required.
- Monitors and measures receiving and warehouse performance for accuracy of locator, receiving reporting, movement and storage of material, and transfers to service parts.
- Determines Return to Vendor (RTV) volume and ensures that RTV shipments are processed in a timely manner.
- Classifies, labels and warehouses all product inventory for future use.
- Places parts orders for services as well as for distribution stock.
- Helps assist any visitors to the building and ensure they sign in properly.
- Works in compliance with federal and state regulations.
- Adheres to all company policies and procedures.
- Must be able to work independently and as part of a team in a Distribution Center/Warehouse environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Ability to safely lift 50 pounds while loading/unloading furniture and operating powered equipment, hand trucks, and carts.
- Ability to quickly move your hands and arms to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects when handling, installing, positioning, or moving furniture.
- Experience working with/around powered equipment, warehouse machinery, and hand/power tools preferred
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Positive working attitude
- Ability to work a flexible schedule
- Available to work over-time as needed
- Basic proficiency with computer skills to include Microsoft Office
- Fundamental understanding of vendor and 3rd party contracts
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in Word and Excel
- Demonstrated success in a Customer Service role is preferred
Work Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, use hands to finger, talk and hear. Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Employee is occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $19.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
