Lead Receiving - Warehouse Receiver

Four Winds Casinos are Equal Opportunity Employers; New Buffalo (MI); On-site; USD 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Four Winds Casinos in Michigan seeks a Receiving Clerk to ensure smooth operations within the Receiving Division of the Finance Department. You will log shipments, verify conditions, and coordinate workflow for timely distribution across venues.

The role requires strong numeric aptitude, computer literacy, and prior warehouse/receiving experience; some college accounting coursework is preferred. You will supervise clerks and uphold sanitation and accurate record-keeping.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Prior warehouse and receiving experience required.
• Some college accounting courses preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receives shipments on dock, logs information into database, coordinates workflow for timely delivery.
• Maintains knowledge of dry goods, paper products, chemicals, and food/beverage specs.
• Inspects storage areas and notes temperatures in venues.
• Ensures shipments are received in good, undamaged condition.
• Cooperates with accounts payable to verify orders received.
• Prepares shipments and maintains records of shipments sent out.
• Resolves receiving disputes and attaches invoices to purchase orders.
• Facilitates information flow by attending departmental meetings.
• Develops charts for storage areas and notes food safety issues.
• Maintains sanitation, temperature, and humidity in storage areas.
• Ensures accurate, confidential, and thorough departmental records.
• Verifies deliveries against corporate specs and uses FIFO for storage.
• Operates forklift, electric and manual pallet jacks.
• Pulls requisitions accurately and reports inventory errors.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Numbers-oriented

Computer literacy

Warehouse experience

Receiving experience

Education

High school diploma or GED preferred

Some college accounting courses preferred

Job description

SUMMARY:

Responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient operations in the Receiving Division of the Finance Department.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

include the following:

• Receives shipments on receiving dock, logs pertinent information into computer database, coordinates workflow to ensure timely delivery of supplies to all departments.
• Maintains a thorough, working knowledge of dry goods, paper products, chemical supplies, and food and beverage specifications.
• Inspects food and beverage storage areas routinely (including refrigerators and freezers) in all venues a minimum of twice during shift, noting temperature.
• Ensures that all shipments are received in good, undamaged condition.
• Cooperates with accounts payable employees in the verification of orders received.
• Maintains all files in the Receiving Division of the Finance Department.
• Prepares boxes for shipment and maintains records of all shipments sent out; prepares shipments as needed.
• Conducts the necessary research to effectively resolve receiving disputes.
• Attaches the invoice to purchase order and indicates the quantity received, number of boxes, date received, invoice number, and any other pertinent information.
• Facilitates the flow of information throughout the property, by attending regularly scheduled departmental meetings.
• Develops and implements charts of all food and beverage storage areas, showing placement of food and noting food safety issues.
• Maintains storage areas with respect to sanitation, temperature, and humidity.
• Is held accountable, to a high degree, for the accuracy, confidentiality, and thoroughness of departmental records and reports.
• Verifies all food and beverage deliveries upon arrival for correct corporate specification.
• Ensures all products are received and placed immediately under refrigeration or other storage (including freezing and dry storage) as needed.
• Ensures products are stored and dated properly and rotated using FIFO method.
• Must be able to operate a forklift, electric and manual pallet jack.
• Ensures all warehouse requisitions are pulled in an accurate and timely manner and reports any inventory errors.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Promotes the following within the department and among all employees:

• Creates an atmosphere of fun for all casino guests.
• Encourages mutual respect, dignity and integrity with all employees, by setting positive examples at all times.
• Instills an atmosphere that encourages employees to share ideas, discuss concerns and resolve conflicts.
• Retains employees through involvement in employee training and development.
• Explains why we do things, in advance of doing them.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly supervises the activities of the Receiving Clerks.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires a Level 4 Gaming License.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Must possess effective communication, organizational, and analytical skills. Must be extremely numbers-oriented and computer-literate. Some college accounting courses preferred. Prior warehouse and receiving experience required. Must be able to work independently without requiring Supervision.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents, such as policy and procedure manuals, maintenance instructions, and other related documents. Ability to respond to inquiries from employees or guests. Ability to communicate effectively in one-on-one and small group situations.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense reasoning to variety of situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

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 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 or hear. The employee is also regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, and to sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

The employee is regularly required to lift and/or move up to seventy-five (75) pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to one hundred (100) pounds or more.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Applicant must successfully complete screening for essential job functions

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

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.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. A casino environment is typically smoky.