Description Purchasing Assistant — Serves under Purchasing Supervisor The primary responsibilities of purchasing assistant are the retrieving, issuing, and stocking of parts and materials. The stockroom clerk is the first responder to assist at counter to handle parts retrieval and issuance. Expected duties include but are not limited to: Retrieving, issuing, and documenting parts and materials as they are received and dispersed. Receiving and taking delivery of parts and materials. Delivering parts and materials. Operating a forklift Load and unload product placing bales of cardboard, chemicals, machinery etc. away in warehouses and overhead storage racks. Unloading freight and chemicals from incoming deliveries. Dumping 2 cu yd dumpsters filled with trash, production residue, and hide sludge and other waste materials into open top trash dumpsters and trash compactors. Retrieving chemicals from chemical storage and racking and delivering to various departments. Individual must be attentive to detail and record keeping to perform the following: Taking daily or cyclical inventories. Verifying on hand inventories. Verifying incoming shipments of materials. Posting receivers on computer system. Issuing materials from inventory on computer system. Filing paperwork and documents by combination of company name and numerical sequence. Hand writing issue slips and inventories requiring: Legible penmanship Ability to read and interpret detail of labels and placards on materials. Ability to write twelve (12) digit number sequences without transposing numbers. Finding parts and materials in the computer data base for maintenance and other departments. Checking on hand computer balances. Finding locations and warehouses where parts are stored. Researching Order histories including the following: On order quantities Requisitions and details including for whom the materials were ordered. Receiving histories. Issue histories. Return and repair histories. Handling Repairs and returned parts and materials. Individuals must have strong work ethic, be dependable, able to work independently (often without direct supervision) and possess a strong cooperative attitude.