Material Handler Receiver

“Optimal provides highly automated supply chain services, along with result-driven capabilities targeted at reducing customers’ operating and sales expenses. Optimal's business units support a "lower cost to serve" option for the healthcare industry. We provide distribution, contracting and logistics solutions for both domestic US and international markets. We deliver products, contracting services and sales support throughout the United States. Headquartered in Houston, Texas. Optimal’s mission is to reduce the cost of healthcare by providing efficient supply chain solutions.”  

Job Summary

The Material Handler (Receiving Stocker) stocks, counts, measures, or weighs articles to verify contents of receipts against received products, transfers, or quality control inspected receipts by performing the following duties.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Examines articles for defects and sorts the articles according to extent of defect.
• Conveys materials and items from the receiving area to storage or to other designated areas. 
• Sorts and places materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code. 
• Sorts and stores expired and damaged goods in the quarantine/damaged goods area. 
• Make sure the product is clean and free of vendor labels or markings. 
• Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves or conveys orders to the packing station or shipping department. 
• Uses a computer to look up inventory records. 
• Unloads and unpacks incoming shipments. 
• Maintains inventory records. 
• Ensure product is stocked timely as per company policy.
• Actively participates in meetings/workshops designed to enhance employee performance. 
• Support the quality management system. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Education

• High school graduate or equivalent.

Required Experience

• Two to three years’ experience with WMS software.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• N/A

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Able to operate multiple types of MHE.
• Cross-trained in multiple departments.
• Basic MS Office skills.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. 
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide. 
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. 
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to operate all MHE preferred.
• Ability to navigate WMS and ERP systems preferred.

Financial Responsibilities

Budget Responsibilities

Languages

Travel

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. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); work near moving mechanical parts; work in high, precarious places and extreme heat (non-weather). The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture for our employees and communities.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.