Warehouseman - Developmental (S)

  • Full-time

Company Description

We provide our federal customers with an exciting variety of IT and Intelligence services. In order to achieve our company growth goals, continually surpass our customer’s expectations and provide new opportunity for our employees, Metronome must attract the most professional and qualified employees.

Metronome believes in a strong company culture rooted in its core values and belief in our overall mission. We believe in supporting one another, exceeding our customer’s expectations, executing with passion and celebrating all successes. We work hard and encourage one another to have fun doing it.

Metronome is looking for individuals who also believe in these core set of values, those who yearn to support our nation’s vital projects and those who desire to work for a fast growing small business that appreciates each employees’ contributions and trusts them to make decisions while representing Metronome…those who Keep Projects Pulsing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Metronome is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants for employment, to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Metronome shall provide reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless Metronome can demonstrate that a particular accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations. Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation may make a request.

Job Description

Warehousemen work under close daily contractor supervision and are assigned to one of the following three warehouse work units: Dock Operations, Stock Management, or Property Reutilization. Warehousemen are expected to develop a proficiency in the duties of that work unit. As the candidate develops his/her skills in one work area, he/she is given opportunities to cross-train in the other warehouse areas. Warehousemen are also trained to operate forklifts and other material handling equipment. 

Work is performed in a temperature-controlled warehouse, on concrete floors, where there is exposure to moving vehicles, fumes, noise, dust and cramped spaces. Work involves a significant amount of standing, walking, bending and lifting (up to 70 lbs.). Frequent use of computer terminals is also required, as well as occasional work outdoors in all weather conditions. Close to general supervision is provided to the employee by a first-line contractor supervisor, with the employee exercising some judgment in accordance with established policies, procedures and techniques

DUTIES

With substantial guidance, performs duties in one or two of the following work units: Dock Operations, Stock Management and Property Reutilization

Dock Operations

  • Unloads trucks by hand or by using materials handling equipment (i.e. forklifts, pallet jacks)
  • Inspects materials for damage
  • Reviews manifests, packing lists and other documentation, to ensure that materials are correctly addressed and labeled and that the correct number of boxes was received
  • X-rays incoming materials, following warehouse guidelines on security inspections
  • Contacts the Special Protective Staff regarding any suspicious materials received
  • Verifies the contents of materials received, against packing lists and vendor manifests
  • Updates the receiving database from manifests and packing lists
  • Resolves discrepancies by contacting vendors, customers and/or shippers
  • Prints packing slips and labels and affixes to material
  • Segregates and stages material based on final disposition (i.e. packing, stock, or cross dock)
  • Using material handling equipment as required, loads materials onto trucks, in accordance with weight distribution guidelines and limitations

Stock Management

  • Fills orders and retrieves materials
  • Prints customer initiated pick tickets from the computer database and verifies the location of the item
  • Retrieves materials, using material handling equipment as necessary
  • Updates the stock inventory database to record that orders have been filled, entering the destination, number of pieces picked, etc.
  • Prints packing slips and labels and affixes them to materials
  • Moves materials to their appropriate transition point (i.e. packing or onward transportation)
  • Obtains materials from Dock Operations for storage
  • Updates stock inventory database, confirming stock numbers, allocation numbers and material locations
  • Determines if incoming materials are for stock (inventoried) or bulk storage
  • Consolidates loose items whenever possible
  • Determines storage locations based on size, stock number and customer requirements
  • Tags materials with location numbers
  • Places materials in a selected area, using material handling equipment as necessary
  • Collects data for customer billing purposes
  • Determines total storage space occupied by an individual customer
  • Consolidates materials to minimize costs to the customer
  • Records space utilized per customer in the stock inventory database
  • Conducts continuous inventories of all stock items
  • Inventories high dollar value items on a frequent basis
  • Verifies all stock activity (i.e. receipts and picks)
  • Examines storage areas to ensure correct labeling and adherence to safety standards

Property Reutilization

  • Reviews/approves property reutilization requests
  • Screens customer requests in the property reutilization database and approves them when the form is completely filled-out
  • Verifies the contents of materials received, against information in the property reutilization database
  • Separates materials for reuse, secure disposal or recycling
  • Marks material designated for secure disposal and labels items identified for reuse
  • Processes material determined for reuse
  • After materials are returned following security inspection, loads material onto pallets and shrink wraps, documents and loads them onto a trailer and prepares a manifest for shipment to GSA
  • Makes arrangements with Trucking Operations, to deliver materials to GSA
  • Processes materials to be disposed of securely
  • After materials are returned following security inspection, destroys materials by either using an industrial shredder or by disassembling the items to make them unrecognizable
  • Processes materials to be recycled
  • After materials are returned following security inspection, weighs materials and move them to the recycling staging area
  • Makes arrangements with a recycling company to pick up materials
  • Manifests materials to be recycled
  • Loads and seals a recycling truck and obtains the driver's signature on the manifest
  • Updates the property reutilization database to reflect the final disposition (i.e. reuse, secure disposal, recycling) and forwards all materials to security for inspection, regardless of final disposition

Qualifications

  • Government clearance required
  • Completion of high school or vocational school, a GED certificate, or the equivalent
  • Ability to obtain a basic knowledge of Agency and Logistics policies and regulations that pertain to the storage, shipping and handling of materials (including specialized materials)
  • Ability to obtain a basic understanding of the Working Capital Fund business operating procedures
  • Basic knowledge of cover and how it pertains to warehouse operations
  • Some knowledge of Windows-based computer applications
  • Good interpersonal and customer service skills
  • Ability to operate various material handling equipment, in accordance with safety requirements and procedures
  • Ability to safely move materials of various sizes and weights throughout the warehouse and onto and off of trucks
  • Materials may include crates, furniture, electronics, HAZMAT, lumber, vehicles, 55-gallon drums and military items
  • Ability to lift up to 70 lbs.
  • Ability to operate an industrial shredder, in accordance with safety requirements and procedures
  • Ability to exercise good judgment in decision-making and creativity in problem solving (i.e. maximize space, handle the wide range of materials received, deal with multiple customers and priorities and resolve inventory discrepancies)
  • Ability to read and understand manifests and other documents
  • Ability to maintain accurate records
  • Good interpersonal and customer service skills
  • Ability to use materials handling equipment, forklifts and pallet jacks
  • Ability to work well in a team environment

Additional Information

Core Values

Passion - We believe.  We execute with all we have.
Improving - We surpass our best efforts.
Teammates - We respect and support one another.
Mission - We align with our customers’ objectives.
Celebrate Success - We reward all achievements.