Hardware Assistant

SUMMARY

The Hardware Assistant is responsible for packaging hardware for customer orders, managing inventory, and receiving and distributing hardware used in the assembly of toilet partitions. The candidate should have organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. This position offers an opportunity to play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our toilet partition manufacturing process.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (includes the following, other duties may be assigned):

• Safety Compliance: Learns and adheres to safety protocols and procedures to ensure a secure working environment for oneself and colleagues.
• Quality Control: Follows and maintains all aspects of quality and performs quality checks during the hardware picking process to ensure correct quantities of hardware have been picked and met required standards and specifications. Understands Bobrick’s 4 Grade Quality System and can distinguish and explain between levels of the defects.
• Communication: Communicates effectively with production supervisors, purchasing staff, shipping department, and other team members regarding orders, hardware, and inventory and coordinates hardware requirements, resolves issues, and ensures smooth workflow.
• Basic Hardware Receiving: Transports materials and items from receiving areas to storage or other designated areas. Opens bales, crates, and other containers. Uses computer to verify amounts of items received or distributed. Completes any documentation that is required.
• Storage and Organization: Sorts and places materials or items on racks or shelves according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code. Rotates stock by first in, first out. Properly stores hardware components in designated storage areas, ensuring items are neatly organized, labeled, and easily accessible.
• Distribution and Allocation: Understands scanning procedures for hardware. Picks, scans, and packs hardware according to job and brand requirements, ensuring accurate and timely delivery to packing area. Operates tape machine to secure packages. Refers to paperwork and pulls consumable hardware (extrusions, inserts, screws, receivers) to be used for orders.
• Basic Inventory Management: Conducts periodic cycle counts on in-house inventory as needed or required.
• Sorts production paperwork (when necessary) in priority of orders, notates special instructions, and stages in proper locations.
• Demonstrates understanding of VMP’s and JSC’s.

Qualifications

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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions:

1. Education and/or Experience: A high school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) is required; additional education or training in inventory management or supply chain logistics is a plus.
2. Language Skills: Able to read, write, verbalize in English, follow verbal and written instructions, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedures.
3. Mathematical Skills: Has basic math skills for measurements and calculations. Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Able to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Able to understand and convert between metric and imperial units of measure.
4. Reasoning Skills: Able to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
5. Has prior experience in inventory control, preferably in a manufacturing or warehouse environment, with knowledge of inventory management systems or software.
6. Familiarity with hardware components and materials commonly used in toilet partition manufacturing and installation is desirable.
7. Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should know about order processing systems and pack scan systems. Be proficient in using computer applications, such as Outlook and Microsoft Excel, to track orders packed and inventory, perform root cause analysis for inventory discrepancies, and use production schedules.
8. Able to follow instructions and work effectively in a team environment.
9. Physical Requirements: 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, or crouch and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, crawl and climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.