Shipping & Receiving Specialist - Columbia MD

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Posted Date
09-10-2023
Job ID
28946
Job Function
Retail Operations
REI City
Columbia
REI State
Maryland
REI Location
Columbia MD
Remote Eligible
No
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What's cool about this job
Our Shipping and Receiving Specialists make sure merchandise is safely and properly received and shipped out. Your focus is on executing store shipping/receiving/reverse logistics functions unaided or as assigned by Store Management. Specific responsibilities include:
 
  • Receives vendor and internal shipments
  • Prices, organizes, evaluates or ships customer and product quality returns
  • Identifies opportunities to return product into inventory that can be restocked and sold in-store
  • Processes and tracks customer mail-outs, inventory transfers, vendor or quality returns
  • Creates the needed flow of merchandise to the selling floor or stock as required
  • Performs recurring cycle counts and audits of targeted inventory as requested
  • Provides warehouse support, stocking or inventory functions as required
  • Follows loss prevention and safety procedures as directed by store leadership
  • Assumes responsibility for other functions as requested such as recycling, trash removal or simple maintenance tasks
  • Helps with sale preparation or damage and Garage Sale set up as requested
Bring your passion and expertise
You’re an effective communicator. You’re a master-mover of merchandise. You thrive in warehouse and shipping/receiving environments. You would be dedicated to quality control and seek methods to improve processes and decrease defects. Skills that make for a great fit for our team:
 
  • Ability to transfer up to 35 pounds for up to two hours
  • Safely operate power material handling equipment as necessary
  • Basic computer skills which include Outlook email and Microsoft Word
  • Previous experience in a warehouse, retail or shipping/receiving environment (preferred)
  • Detail-orientation in performing accurate transactions
  • Self-motivated and multi-tasks with minimal supervision
  • Proactively meets both internal and external customer needs
  • Effective communication skills-- clear, concise and positive
As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors. 

The pay for this role is: $19.58 - $21.78 per hour. 
At REI we offer an enviable work environment that Fortune Magazine has recognized on the "100 Best Places to Work" list since the award's inception – 23 years in a row! Sure, we work hard, but it’s balanced with time off to play—a strategy that works for us as we continue to grow and thrive. Want to enjoy a workplace where you can be yourself, be heard and be respected while having a job that challenges you? This is the place.

With more than 160 retail locations (and growing), REI offers unique competitive benefits to its more than 15,000 employees, including healthcare, gear and apparel discounts, free equipment rentals and challenge grants to help employees reach personal outdoor goals, generous retirement plan contributions, public transit subsidy, adoptions assistance, paid sabbaticals, and more.

REI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Retail Posting Range
$19.58 - $21.78 per hour
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ARTICLE 23-A, Section 753
LICENSURE AND EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF ONE OR MORE CRIMINAL OFFENSES

§753. Factors to be considered concerning a previous criminal conviction; presumption.

1. In making a determination pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-two of this chapter, the public agency or private employer shall consider the following factors:

(a) The public policy of this state, as expressed in this act, to encourage the licensure and employment of persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses.

(b) The specific duties and responsibilities necessarily related to the license or employment sought or held by the person.

(c) The bearing, if any, the criminal offense or offenses for which the person was previously convicted will have on his fitness or ability to perform one or more such duties or responsibilities.

(d) The time which has elapsed since the occurrence of the criminal offense or offenses.

(e) The age of the person at the time of occurrence of the criminal offense or offenses.

(f) The seriousness of the offense or offenses.

(g) Any information produced by the person, or produced on his behalf, in regard to his rehabilitation and good conduct.

(h) The legitimate interest of the public agency or private employer in protecting property, and the safety and welfare of specific individuals or the general public.

2. In making a determination pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-two of this chapter, the public agency or private employer shall also give consideration to a certificate of relief from disabilities or a certificate of good conduct issued to the applicant, which certificate shall create a presumption of rehabilitation in regard to the offense or offenses specified therein.

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