Warehouse and Distribution Team Member

This position is critical to the success of a thriving Dining Services Operation at the University of Minnesota Duluth. We feed thousands of students and guests daily and this role is vital in ensuring that our chefs, cooks, servers, cashiers, and student workers have everything they need to nourish, excite, and comfort our community each and every day. Orders are received every day, inventoried, distributed, and placed again to come full circle.

Overview of the Position

• Comparable to Stores Specialist, Job Code 6008
• The schedule is based on business needs
• Temp/Casual
• Parking permits are available for purchase based on availability
  

Warehouse and Distribution Team Member

• Maintains cleanliness and discards packaging.
• Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of coolers, freezers, storage areas, and loading dock
• Participates in inventory process as assigned
• Work with the MBS inventory management system for receiving related functions.
• Maintains temperature logs daily
• Follows proper procedures and labeling when thawing meat products
• Enters and maintains information regarding work orders, material, and supply requests, inventory, vendor or product information, and related materials via a paper copy on the computer as assigned
• Assists in taking periodic physical inventories of stock as assigned
• Completes daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning as assigned
  

Responsibilities:
50% Ordering, Receiving, and Storage

• Collect requisitions and place orders with purveyors.
• Receives orders with Purchase Order and reconciles to invoice and discusses discrepancies with manager
• Inspect shipments for quality, check temperatures and expiration dates as well as damaged packaging.
• Stores product in assigned area and rotates using FIFO (First In, First Out) method
• Uses independent judgment to identify poor, unacceptable products or backorders during delivery or in storage.
• Decants product and discards packaging.

10% Operational Excellence

• Ensures compliance with health and food safety standards and regulations.
• Collaborates with the entire Dining Team to ensure the completion of proactive and responsive food ordering, receiving, waste reduction, product management.

30% Delivery

• Coordinate and make deliveries to campus departments.
• Suggests and creates efficiencies for deliveries and inventory management.
• Collaborates well with other departments, managers, team members on campus and in Dining Services.
• Listens and communicates well and models warm professionalism to team members.

10% Other Duties as Assigned

• Cover for the lead worker as needed.
• Organize and maintain the receiving area.
• Organize and maintain the fixture area in the receiving and the tunnel area.
• Incumbents may serve as lead workers (e.g. assign, schedule, direct work) of University staff but are not PELRA supervisors. Incumbents may supervise student employees.
• Assists in dish room as assigned
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Able to lift up to 50 pounds frequently
• Reads, writes, understands, and communicates in English
• Must be able to stand up to 4 hours at a time
• High School Diploma or GED
• Ability to perform simple math calculations
• Must have at least 6 months of relevant experience in warehousing, ,storekeeping or inventory methods
• Knowledge of stockroom and stock control items, methods, and procedures, inventory procedures, inventory record maintenance, common clerical procedures, standard abbreviations used in shipping, and designating weights and measures as required
  

Pay Rate: $20.00 per hour.

Retirement plan options are available for Civil Service, Faculty, Labor-Represented, Professional & Administrative, and Temp Casual classifications. Learn more about retirement plans.

Applications must be submitted online. To be considered for this position, please click the Apply button and follow the instructions. You will be given the opportunity to complete an online application for the position and attach a cover letter and resume.

Additional documents may be attached after application by accessing your "My Job Applications" page and uploading documents in the "My Cover Letters and Attachments" section.

To request an accommodation during the application process, please e-mail employ@umn.edu or call (612) 624-8647.

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University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD)

The University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD) consistently ranks among the top Midwestern, regional universities in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" issue.

Overlooking Lake Superior, UMD provides an alternative to both large research and small liberal arts environments and attracts students looking for a personalized learning experience on a medium-sized campus of a major university. A firm liberal arts foundation anchors a variety of traditional degree programs, as well as professional and graduate students that draw on UMD's many research institutes and labs.

At the University of Minnesota, we are proud to be recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace for 2021, as well as by Forbes as Best Employers for Women and one of America's Best Employers (2015, 2018, 2019, 2023), Best Employer for Diversity (2019, 2020), Best Employer for New Grads (2018, 2019), and Best Employer by State (2019, 2022).