Job Summary:

The Inbound Receiver is responsible for accurately identifying, verifying, and recording inbound shipments while ensuring product and packaging quality. This role plays a critical part in the receiving process, collaborating with other team members to facilitate proper sorting, staging, and flowing of inbound products. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, dependable, and capable of working in a fast-paced warehouse environment.

Essential Duties:

• Accurately identify, verify, record, and receive inbound shipments.

• Ensure product and packaging quality align with company standards.

• Inspect containers for cleanliness, pests, and odors before offloading.

• Interact and work hand in hand with Bahamas Customs with documentation and identification of products.

• Verify and document container temperature for refrigerated loads, reporting any temperature deviations.

• Match product license plates with manufacturing numbers, pack sizes, and quantities.

• Capture UPC codes and document expiration/manufacturing dates for dated items.

• Reject any product outside designated shelf-life ranges and notify the Category Manager.

• Work with Quality Assurance to inspect all inbound produce loads and report any subpar products.

• Document discrepancies on receiving worksheets and escalate issues to Inbound Supervisors.

• Maintain accurate receiving records using the Sysco Warehouse Management System (SWMS).

• Oversee and ensure proper unloading procedures in collaboration with the unloading service by ensuring proper sorting, segregating, staging, and flowing of inbound products.

• Checks, inspects, examines and counts all products being unloaded for quality and quantity against Purchase Orders.

• Informs Warehouse management and Merchandising of any discrepancies on purchase orders.

• Make sure that the drivers are backed up to the proper door and their trailers are secure before unloading begins.

• Documents all overages, shortages and damages. 

• Cleans dock area as needed.

• Performs other warehouse duties as assigned.

• Adhere to all company policies, including food safety regulations and inbound receiving procedures.

Minimum Requirements:

• 18+ years of age

• High school education/GED or 6 months related warehouse experience or training.

• Previous forklift operation experience.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

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

• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. 

• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Basic computer skills.

Preferred Requirements:

• Previous receiving experience with warehouse management software

Competencies:

To be successful in this position, the individual performing the duties must successfully demonstrate the following competencies:

• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.

• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

• Ethics - Treats people with respect; inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.

• Initiative - Asks for and offers help when needed.

• Interpersonal Skills - Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality.

• Motivation - Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; Measures self against standard of excellence.

• Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures.

• Planning/Organizing - Uses time efficiently.

• Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.

• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.

• Quantity - Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly.

• Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.

• Teamwork - Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives.

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 stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 -75 pounds. 

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

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.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.