Furniture Warehouse Lead-full Time-mon to

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**Who we are**

We, at Staples Professional, provide our business customers with a deep professional expertise when it comes to Business Essentials, Furniture, Facilities, Technology, Print/Promo, and Pack and Ship, as well as next-day delivery service and customized solutions for ordering, billing and reporting. We are part of the Staples umbrella in Canada, and as such we are a true multi-channel solution provider - online, at our customers place of business and in-store, for all our customer's needs.

**We are building an inclusive and diverse team**

Staples Professional is creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. We welcome, value and thrive on perspectives and contributions from backgrounds that vary by race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

**Please note: This position is based out of our Fulfillment Centre at 200 Discovery Place in Winnipeg.**

**Purpose of Job**
- Performs manual and system tasks to support inbound and outbound furniture operations. Identifies and resolves issues in various functional areas; put away, staging, loading, shipping. Supports and assembles “make ready” furniture to support efficient warehouse processing and maximize warehouse space usage. Assists in providing work direction and training to Furniture Warehouse Associates. Performs work under the direction of warehouse supervisor or manager.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**
- 1. Provides work direction in assigned area while performing the same tasks as those directing. Trains less experienced furniture warehouse associates in assigned area on proper methods and procedures.
- 2. Performs the following processes to support inbound and outbound furniture operations generated from Central Furniture System (CFS).
- Receives vendor purchase orders, regular lines, special orders, or customer returns.
- Performs inventory counts and location lookups.
- Follows processes to report common daily discrepancies or issues (i.e., shortages, damage) to supervisor or order management.
- Monitors and ensures CFS task completion within shift.
- Picks and stages outbound orders as necessary on day shift.
- Performs a variety of lookups and research to support functional areas.
- Communicates non-routine CFS system issues to Application Support and/or management.

3. Performs the following non-system inbound and outbound tasks.
- Separates and labels product received, stocks product into identified locations verifying SKU and quantity accuracy.
- Assembles make-ready furniture and stages for delivery.
- Coordinates with Furniture Sales Support to resolve items received that are not on purchase order.
- Completes Receiving Discrepancy Tickets when vendor shipment is inaccurate. Informs Furniture Sales Support and Accounts Payable.
- Picks and stocks product to complete replenishment tasks.
- Picks product for customer orders ensuring quantity and unit-of-measure (UOM) picked is equal to quantity and UOM ordered.
- Checks SKU and quantities picked for customer orders to ensure accuracy, and re-packages or wraps orders as needed.
- Sorts and loads customer orders by route and delivery order.
- May schedule vendor shipments.

4. Participates in all scheduled physical inventories.
- 5. Performs basic housekeeping in assigned areas of warehouse.
- 6. Adheres to all safety procedures in the performance of job duties. Daily interaction with furniture warehouse co-workers and warehouse management, Application Support, Inventory Control, Furniture Sales Support, vendors/suppliers for scheduling deliveries and obtaining return

**Knowledge/Skill Requirements**
- Proficient in warehouse operations
- Basic PC Skills in Windows environment
- Detail-oriented
- Good Math skills
- Good judgment
- Problem-solving skills
- Able to listen to verbal instructions
- Ability to recognize process improvement opportunities and make recommendations
- Good communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must be dependable and demonstrate the ability to read and follow directions
- Must be a team player

**Physical Demands/Working Conditions**
- 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
- Work requires physical effort and use of motor skills requiring manual dexterity. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, push/pull, or balance weight for extended periods of time. The employee must frequently lift, move, and/or carry between 70 to 100 pounds. With mechanical assistance, employee will occasionally move up to 300 pounds