Procurement Clerk

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- **Tasks**:

- Perform routine clerical duties
- Prepare price quotations
- Process files and paperwork
- Provide customer service
- Provide information on available materials
- Calculate costs of orders
- Charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts
- Complete and process international purchase orders
- Obtain price quotations from catalogues and suppliers
- Prepare and maintain purchasing files, reports and records
- Prepare purchase orders
- Process purchases
- Resolve delivery and other problems with suppliers
- Review requisition orders for accuracy
- Set up and maintain inventory control system
- Verify stock availability from current inventories
- Compile inventory reports
- Dispose of and account for outdated stock
- Liaise with Canada Customs
- Monitor inventory levels of issued materials and stocks
- Prepare inventory costs, retail pricing and profit reports
- Prepare requisition orders to replenish stock
- Reconcile physical inventories with computer counts
- Record the quantity, type and value of stock on hand using computerized or manual inventory system
- Verify receipts and packing slips
- ** Computer and technology knowledge**:

- IBM AS/400
- Electronic mail
- Inventory control software
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- Monitoring and tracking software
- Spreadsheet
- Word processing software
- MS Office
- MS Windows
- MS Outlook
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Versatility
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
- ** Financial benefits**:

- Bonus
- ** Other benefits**:

- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- ** Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
- ** Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities