Warehouse Associate

**About Us**:
Founded in 2020, FIKA’s origin is a lifestyle brand redefining cannabis retail including flagship locations in Toronto’s Union Station and Distillery District has quickly evolved to now over 160+ locations across Canada, The FIKA Company is the home of 10 Canadian retail banners, including FIKA Cannabis, Fire & Flower, Friendly Stranger, Pop’s Cannabis, Ganjika House, Flower Haze, Prairie Records, Bud Supply, Lucid Cannabis and now, Due North. At FIKA we provide exceptional service in a variety of welcoming, intuitive, and diversified store environments, this has allowed The FIKA Company retail family to evolve into the destination for every type of cannabis consumer.
Warehouse Associate
The Warehouse Associate will assist in the daily warehouse and fulfillment activities for retail stores and web orders of cannabis and accessories. The position reports to the Open Filed SK facility and involves lifting and carrying relatively heavy objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
**Reports to**: Warehouse Manager
**Job Duties**:

- Complete manual tasks to support inbound and outbound operations covering dock receiving and sorting, put away, picking, packing, shipping using 3rd party transport systems.
- Perform warehouse allied activities under the direction of the Warehouse Manager such as but not limited to:

- Printing and organizing order pick tickets and purchase orders (PO) for receipt
- System receive PO, and system post picked orders
- Put-away to racking and shelf locations; consolidate locations and do continual moves to create open shelf/rack spots
- Replenish forward shelf/rack locations for picking
- Generate labels for receipts, packing, and shipping
- Prepare shipping documents (packing lists, waybills)
- Inventory control (cycle and physical counts).
- Quality control checks ensuring accuracy (receipt, picks, inventory, shipping).
- Unloading deliveries from van to dock using appropriate material handling equipment (MHE).
- Endorsing and van loading (if need be) shipments on to trucks
- Performing tasks according to safety standards; identifying workplace hazards (immediately eliminate, if not, report it to the warehouse manager)
- Housekeeping (such as taking care of garbage/recycling wastes) and maintaining workplace cleanliness and organization

**Education, Training & Experience**:

- Minimum secondary/GED education.
- Relative warehouse environment experience.
- Preferred: First Aid training, WHMIS knowledge; material handling equipment (lift trucks and manual pallet truck); RF/barcode scan experience.

**Core Competencies**:

- Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing dynamics.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Physically fit to lift heavy consignments.
- Display attention to detail (essential).
- Display computer skills: MS Excel, Word, and Outlook (intermediate level)
- Be Reliable and Prompt (unexplained absences or tardiness is not acceptable)
- Be comfortable working in a team environment.
- Good arithmetic, problem-solving, and data-entry skills.
- Show initiative, recognize process improvement opportunities and make recommendations.
- Able to adhere to all safety procedures in the performance of job duties.

**Working Conditions**:

- Relatively heavy, physical work - be mindful & kind to your body as you are lifting, moving, or standing for long periods. Hydrate, take micro breaks, & stretch.
- Use Team Lift for any heavy items.
- The warehouse associate will work hours between (M-F 8:00am-5:00pm) but must be flexible to work on a different shift if need be based on operations requirements.

The FIKA Company respects the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Inclusion to us means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths.