Warehouse Associate II

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 11am-7:30pm

The Warehouse Associate plays an important role in ensuring Stago products reach customers safely, accurately, and on time. Working as part of the Supply Chain team, this position performs receiving, inventory, picking, packing, and shipping activities while maintaining high standards for quality, safety, accuracy, and productivity.

At Stago, every shipment matters. Our customers are healthcare laboratories that depend on our products to support patient care. Warehouse Associates are expected to take ownership of their work, collaborate with teammates, identify opportunities to improve how we work, and help deliver an exceptional customer experience. In addition to performing all responsibilities of the Warehouse Associate, the Warehouse Associate II serves as an experienced team resource and demonstrates a higher level of technical knowledge, initiative, and leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accurately pick, scan, pack, and ship reagents, consumables, parts, and other products for domestic and internationalcustomers.
• Perform receiving, labeling, stocking, and inventory movement activities according to established procedures
• Perform inventory and cycle counts and assist with researching and resolving discrepancies
• Process product returns in accordance with established procedures.
• Safely operate warehouse equipment, including pallet jacks, reach trucks, and forklifts when trained and authorized
• Maintain accurate transactions and inventory records within applicable warehouse and ERP systems.
• Follow all company SOPs, work instructions, quality requirements, and safety procedures.
• Maintain a clean, safe, organized workplace consistent with 5S and warehouse standards
• Communicate problems, inventory discrepancies, shipping concerns, safety issues, or potential customer-impacting delayspromptly.
• Work collaboratively across the warehouse and with other Stago teams to meet customer and business needs.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities and proactively identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, accuracy,efficiency, or the employee and customer
• Take ownership for assigned work and follow issues through to resolution or appropriate escalation.
• Serve as a resource and role model for Warehouse Associates, reinforcing safety, quality, productivity, and Stago standards.
• Train and support new employees in warehouse processes, systems, shipping, receiving, and other assigned activities.
• Coordinate work and shipping priorities when requested by Warehouse leadership.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement projects involving shipping, packaging, inventory, receiving, or warehouseprocesses.
• Lead or support cycle counts, discrepancy research, recounts, and inventory-control activities.
• Identify recurring problems, investigate potential causes, and recommend improvements.
• Assist Warehouse leadership with workload coordination and daily operational priorities as needed.
• Demonstrate the initiative to resolve routine issues independently in accordance with company procedure and guidelines and appropriately escalate complex concerns.
• Support other warehouse activities as business needs require, including overtime when necessary.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1 or more years related experience required; 6-12 months experience in lead role preferred; 1 or more years Stago related experience preferred.

Travel: Up to 10% required.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We offer an extensive benefit and compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401k, PTO, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Pay anticipated for this position in New Jersey is from $21.00 to $26.00 per hour, depending on a number of factors. This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in a bonus plan which is associated with this position. In the ordinary course of business, compensation and benefits programs may change based upon the Company's needs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.