Senior Warehouse Associate - 1st Shift

What Warehouse Operations contributes to Cardinal Health

Operations is responsible for materials handling and product distribution in a distribution or manufacturing environment. Includes warehousing and fulfillment of materials and products, transportation, inventory management as well as demand, supply and manufacturing planning.

Warehouse Operations is responsible for performing/controlling a combination of manual or automated tasks necessary for the receipt, storage, and shipment of product. This may include functions of receiving, picking, packing, shipping, staging, transporting, storage, delivery, etc. Also responsible for the efficient flow of products from the point of product receipt from vendors to the shipment of products (via prescribed service parameters) to a variety of internal and external customers.

Job Summary

The Senior Associate, Warehouse Operations applies broad knowledge to ensure the proper routing and shipment of customer orders on a daily basis. They will have an understanding of customer requirements, will work with Sales, Transportation, and the DC to ensure financial and QRA requirements are met on all shipments. They will also be required to work with teammates, ensuring all available orders are shipped timely from all buildings. There will also be a variety of other specialty shipments that they may be required to learn and process, such as hazmat and USPS orders.

Responsibilities

• Continually monitors routes for customer orders and works with Penske and Corporate Trans to ship best possible way

• Works with customers and sales team on routing and CCDG changes.

• Investigates outbound discrepancies by checking for differences between physical counts and WMS records. Identifies and reports variances to Customer Care team and ensures that customers are shipped variances promptly and documents all variances and issues in line with SOPs.

• Continually monitors SI buckets to ensure quick response and shipment of rush/emergency orders.

• May determines proper resolution of discrepancies and other operational errors to ensure that customer commitments can be fulfilled in scheduled timeframe. Promptly communicates the root cause and resolution to the Supervisor, Manager, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to minimize future errors.

• Could place Purchasing Orders (PO’s) for customers and tracks to ensure on time deliveries to prevent service disruptions.

• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve operations and mitigate risks in inventory control and broader operations. Provides input into operational excellence initiatives through Supervisor and Manager.

• Serves as a resource to other team members, instructs Associates on complex picking and routing issues and is flexible to support daily operational needs. May assist in occasional warehouse audits by providing reporting and answering questions related shipping and document storage.

• Serve as a subject matter expert on new customer adds, and other projects.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience, preferred
• High School diploma, GED or equivalent, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• ECC/SAP Knowledge a plus
• AIMS Knowledge a plus

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies knowledge and company policies to complete a variety of tasks
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of jobs outside area of responsibility
• Maintains appropriate licenses, training and certifications
• Works on assignments that are moderately difficult requiring judgment in resolving issues
• May assist in recommendation of processes on new assignments
• Adheres to all quality guidelines
• Works with limited supervision
• Work occasionally involves review of output by work lead or supervisor
• May provide general guidance or technical assistance to less experienced team members

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.