Warehouse Assistant

Job Summary

Responsibilities

Include, but are not limited to, the following. Other duties may be assigned as needed to meet business needs.

General Warehouse Duties

• Perform any function that may reasonably be required from time to time by the Warehouse Supervisor or the Field Support Supervisor.

• Ensure the warehouse area is kept tidy at all times.

• Alternate between the warehouses (Mbeya, Dar es Salaam and Dodoma) as operational needs require.

• Log into the telephone system daily so that Warehouse can be reached by Field Support and by Product Supply.

• Recommend improved procedures to the Warehouse Supervisor where practical improvements are identified.

• Assist with the re-packing of goods within the warehouse — including damage-out, batch corrections, and pack-size changes.

• Take responsibility for receiving, picking, packing, checking and dispatching of goods in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

• Ensure the correct shipping of all goods, both to Africa Distribution Centres and on export shipments.

• Re-pack pallets to meet shipment requirements (weight, dimensions and load stability).

• Off-load and load containers and trucks arriving at or departing from the warehouse.

• Assist in the monthly stock-take cycle counts and in any daily cycle counts, as required.

• Assist with scanning of invoices from Accepted to Pending Inventory to Shipped status, ensuring accuracy and timely completion of all invoices that enters the Warehouse environment.

• Assist with arranging and filing of invoices.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• The physical demands and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Reasonable accommodations 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 talk, stand, walk, kneel, bend, pull, feel, reach, grasp, crawl, hear, and/or climb stairs.

• The employee is required to have the ability to safely lift or carry up to 20 kilograms on a repeated basis in the course of a working day.

• The employee must be able to work at height (racking and picking positions up to and above 12 metres) when required, using approved equipment and safety gear.

• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

• The noise levels in the warehouse environment are typically moderate to high; hearing protection to be worn where indicated.

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Requirements

Education and Experience

• Minimum Grade 12 (secondary school completion) — essential.

• Able to count accurately and to determine quantities on pallets and in cartons — essential.

• Licence for the Counterbalance Forklift, Turret (man-up) Forklift and Pallet Jack — highly desirable (training may be provided to strong candidates without existing licences, subject to Company policy).

• Able to work at heights of 12 metres and above — essential.

• Previous warehouse or distribution-centre experience — advantageous.

• Good command of English, verbal and written — essential.

• Kiswahili working knowledge — advantageous.