Job Description
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. Our client is a leading microbiology-focused organization with more than a century of experience providing trusted microbiology products, services, and solutions. With a comprehensive portfolio of instruments, laboratory services, culture media, testing technologies, quality control products, and laboratory consumables, the company supports clinical laboratories, food and beverage laboratories, and pharmaceutical manufacturers across a wide range of applications. The company's solutions are designed to support infectious disease diagnosis, food and beverage safety and quality, and the detection and control of microbial contaminants in pharmaceutical manufacturing. With a strong commitment to microbiology, our client helps customers improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline laboratory workflows, maintain quality and compliance, and achieve reliable results through innovative and dependable solutions.
Position: Supply Chain Associate
Location: Lenexa, KS 66215
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Lenexa, KS 66215
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shifts: Weekend Day Shift - Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 6:00 AM 6:30 PM
Summary
The Supply Chain Associate / Handler/Certifier is responsible for shipping hazardous finished goods to customers while supporting receiving, shipping, warehousing, inventory, and material-handling activities. The role involves receiving and inspecting incoming materials, stocking and transferring products, maintaining accurate inventory records, operating material-handling equipment safely, and ensuring products are handled and stored appropriately. This position requires attention to detail, basic computer and math skills, safe handling practices, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Receive and check in products from vendors and other sources in a timely manner.
- Sort parcels and materials received or returned and handle them appropriately to prevent damage.
- Inspect incoming parcels and materials for defects or damage and report discrepancies.
- Order raw materials for production using internet-based systems and Microsoft Access.
- Handle hazardous/dangerous goods safely and in accordance with applicable procedures.
- Accurately count products and materials.
- Complete required forms with accurate and legible information.
- Transfer released products from quarantine locations to designated shippable areas.
- Stock and organize products and materials in designated storage locations.
- Operate forklifts and other material-handling equipment in accordance with safety procedures.
- Perform inventory-related activities, including product identification, counting, and organization.
- Deliver received packages and materials to the appropriate employees or departments.
- Communicate discrepancies, safety concerns, and other issues verbally or in writing.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area free of excess packaging materials.
- Follow scheduled work hours and attendance expectations.
- Report actual or potential safety hazards to the appropriate supervisor or safety personnel.
- Complete required company training and obtain Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) certification.
- Work overtime as needed to support customer requirements.
Required Skills
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- No previous work experience required.
- Basic knowledge of English and mathematics, with the ability to read and understand written instructions.
- Basic computer skills and ability to navigate standard computer programs.
- Basic inventory skills, including product identification and accurate counting.
- Valid driver's license.
- Ability to safely handle hazardous/dangerous goods as required.
- Ability to operate or learn to operate forklifts and other material-handling equipment.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy when handling products, inventory, and documentation.
- Ability to communicate discrepancies and safety concerns effectively.
- Ability to work cooperatively with coworkers and efficiently with minimal supervision.
- Willingness to complete required training and obtain PIT certification.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. from floor level to overhead, using a step ladder as needed.
- Ability to lift or maneuver up to 100 lbs. in receiving and raw-material areas.
- Ability to push/pull approximately 100 lbs. of force using a pallet jack, with repetition as needed.
- Ability to push carts requiring approximately 45 lbs. of force and pull carts requiring approximately 50 lbs. of force.
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods, including up to 3 hours at a time and up to 10 hours per day.
- Ability to frequently squat, stoop, kneel, bend, twist, and occasionally climb a step stool.
- Ability to reach and safely handle products stored at heights of up to approximately 105 inches.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lenexa, KS |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $17–$19.55 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Clinical Laboratoryunmatched
- Clinical Supportunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Skillsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Driver's Licenseunmatched
- Drug Manufacturingunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Food Safetyunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- Forkliftunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Infectious Diseasesunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Inventory Reportsunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Managementunmatched
- Lift/Move 100 Poundsunmatched
- Lift/Move 25 Poundsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Medical Diagnosisunmatched
- Microbiologyunmatched
- Microsoft Access Databaseunmatched
- Multimediaunmatched
- Order Deliveryunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Pallet Jackunmatched
- Product Packagingunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Receiving Inspectionunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Shipping/Receivingunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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