Warehouse & Supplies Associate - 5 Month Contract

**Company Description**
**Job Description** This is a 5-month fixed-term contract role.**

**Job Purpose**

As a Warehouse & Supplies Associate, you will be responsible for supplying, replenishing, and providing clean glassware, solvents and consumables to the laboratories. You will also accurately and efficiently receive, and distribute any incoming items to their corresponding locations, manage and maintain inventory supplies.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Work Safely**
- Understand and foresee possible safety issues
- Abide by health and safety guidelines prescribed by governing bodies and the TRC Environmental Health and Safety Committee
- General housekeeping of work area
- Promote a safe working environment
- Work in a manner that does not jeopardize the safety of self or co-workers

**Perform Glass Wash Functions**
- Collect used glassware from the laboratories and segregate for processing
- Wash and clean glassware by hand and/or by using automated laboratory glassware washer and ensure clean glassware are available for the laboratories
- Assist chemists in locating glassware and equipment
- Deliver and restock supply of clean glassware in the laboratory
- Notify Warehouse & Supplies Supervisor regarding equipment or other areas requiring repairs and/or replenishing

**Perform Receiving and Warehouse Functions**
- Receive, unpack, and move all incoming materials and items to designated locations
- Update all purchase orders of received items as out lined in the standardized work
- Conduct daily and weekly inventory counts
- Create purchase orders and maintain adequate stock levels
- Replenish solvents and deliver to laboratories as out lined in the standardized work
- Provide on time and efficient delivery of goods between satellite locations
- Provide support for each satellite locations as needed
- Housekeeping of warehouse and storage area
- Dispose of solvent bottles and drums from laboratory to waste area

**Perform Other Duties**
- Perform other duties and complete additional projects as assigned

**Essential Competencies**
- Resonates and operates in line with LGC’s core value behaviors

**Qualifications**
- College Diploma or equivalent

**Competencies Required**
- Demonstrated ability to stay organized and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborative mindset with a strong commitment to contributing within a team-oriented setting.
- Clear understanding of assigned roles, responsibilities, and duties.
- Strong customer service orientation supported by effective communication skills.
- Self-motivated and task-focused, with a proactive approach to completing assignments.
- Successful completion of a Criminal Background Check.

**Additional Information** Role Dimensions**
- Work with the Supervisor, Warehouse & Supplies and other members of Warehouse & Supplies Department to fulfill customer needs
- Work closely with Finished Goods, Analytical, and Chemical Procurement to ensure customer requests are processed safely and expeditiously

**Direct Reports**
- None

**Physical & Working Conditions/Hybrid Work**
- Regular handling of chemical compounds, including substances classified as toxic or Dangerous Goods, in accordance with safety protocols.
- Ability to frequently lift, push, pull, and move items weighing up to 85 pounds.
- Capability to manage and maneuver heavy materials weighing up to 250 kilograms using appropriate equipment or techniques.
- Occasional cleaning of glassware that may contain residues of solvents and organic compounds.
- Potential exposure to strong or unpleasant odors within the work environment.
- Possible exposure to varying weather conditions during work activities.
- Availability to work 8-hour shifts scheduled between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM.

**About LGC**:
**Our values**
- ** PASSION**:

- ** CURIOSITY**:

- **INTEGRITY**:

- ** BRILLIANCE**:

- ** RESPECT**

Equal opportunities

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or parental status, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard these factors.