Night Shelf Stocker

Servtech; Portsmouth (VA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Servtech is hiring stockers to stock and organize items for commissaries, ensuring fully stocked displays and compliant with FIFO rotation rules.

Responsibilities include cleaning shelves, moving merchandise from staging to aisles, and fronting stock while maintaining safety procedures. Indoor warehouse work may involve lifting up to 60 pounds and standing for long periods.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to lift up to 60 pounds and stand for long periods.
• Familiarity with stocking procedures and safety rules is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Stockers are responsible for placing items on display areas including shelves, displays, freezers.
• Maintain clean shelf areas prior to stocking and ensure stock is faced and fronted.
• Rotate stock by month/year (and by day for baby formula) using FIFO rules.

Skills

Speaking

Active Listening

Active Learning

Mathematics

Coordination

Oral Comprehension

Problem Sensitivity

Deductive Reasoning

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

We strongly encourage veterans, disabled veterans, and persons with disabilities to apply for this role. We give hiring preference to veterans and persons with disabilities. We will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with the law.

Servtech is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are committed to creating an environment that welcomes and celebrates differences in race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and other protected characteristics. We embrace the principles of equal employment opportunity (EOE) and comply with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit discrimination

Position summary:

Stockers are responsible for manually placing items that are being sold in commissaries onto the appropriate display areas to include shelves, stand-alone displays and into freezer sections and coolers as necessary to present a fully stocked area. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTION: Stockers must be able to stock the standard number of cases per hour which is set at 45 cases per hour for Dry goods and 40 cases per hour for chill and frozen. Failure to uphold this standard can result in disciplinary actions being taken and or termination of employment. Below is a list of stocking duties:

A. Stockers will clean all shelf areas in their sections prior to stocking. Shelf areas that are not accessible due to staged merchandise will be cleaned during the stocking process. All old merchandise will be dusted to preclude dust build up. Stockers are responsible to ensure that their shelves and shelf moldings and ESL rails and ESL labels are free of dust (to include NIS areas), tape, spills and self-adhesive backing prior to stocking new merchandise. The Project Manager/Supervisor/Lead will inspect the shelves to ensure that they have been properly cleaned prior and after the actual stocking.

B. The merchandise you will stock will be transported from the staging area to the appropriate store aisle location by means of hand pallet jacks. Once merchandise has been transported to the proper store aisle, the cases will be pulled from the pallets and stacked on the floor in front of the proper shelf location and or commodity.

Tasks:

• Pull pallets of merchandise from the warehouse to store locations to facilitate stocking.

• The stockers will item stock all merchandise unless authorization for dump or bulk stocking is given.

• All items will be stocked in the allocated shelf space in accordance with the number of facings identified by the shelf label.

• All merchandise that is stocked will be faced and fronted during stocking.

• Stockers will also stock in accordance with First-In First-Out (FIFO). All merchandise will be rotated by the month and year of the expiration date except for baby formula, which will be rotated by the day.

• Stockers will take care not to damage commissary merchandise. All merchandise with loose labels will be repaired with tape and stocked.

• Any merchandise found to be damaged, will not be stocked, but will segregated by food and non-food categories and then placed into carts for disposition.

• As cardboard is generated it will be BROKEN DOWN and placed in cardboard bins, that are available in the store for this purpose. Normally cardboard bins will be placed at the ends of the stocking aisles.

• Place all merchandise from pallets and place on the floor to the right of its designated shelf placement.

• Cut open boxes using issued box cutters and abide by safety procedures of using box cutters. and stock merchandise to the shelf.

• Load onto pallets all cases of merchandise that cannot fit on the allocated shelf space, place these at the ends of your aisle so they may be counted and returned to the warehouse.

Skills:

• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems i.e. Able to determine number of products to fill allocation shelving.

• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Attributes:

• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

• Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Experience and Education: High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate); None

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate 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 associate is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The associate is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds and reaches from 6-72 inches. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color, and depth perception. Work Environment: the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently exposed to wet, hot, or cold conditions and moving material and handling equipment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.