Product Handler

**Overview**

Carry out tasks related to receiving, material preparation, stocking, picking, cycle counting, finished goods preparation and loading of product

**Responsibilities**

**Receipting**
- Check delivery vehicle and pallets for damage and ensure compliance to GMP
- Unpack the truck and sort by supplier and lot numbers
- Check shipping manifest and weigh materials; move suspect material to holding place
- Complete and verify the goods receipt document
- Hand receipt documents over to Administrator to book into BAAN
- Dust and pack by hand, and place on pallets, or by means of equipment
- Hand over to the Administrator for printing

**Stocking**
- Place pallet on the shelf as per location label or scan location to update BAAN
- Replace the label after “For release” is approved, if applicable
- Place scheduled products into the Schedule Cages under supervision of Pharmacist

**Picking**
- Receive instruction to pick, locate and pick the pallet
- Place job number on the pallet and return completed picking instruction to Controller/Administrator
- Secure the load
- Move it to the staging area for shipping

**Quality Control**
- Report any stock/or location variances
- Report issues to the superior
- Do general housekeeping
- Do general GMP and Health and Safety functions

**Planning & procedures**
- Prioritise daily work to complete tasks/ projects assigned by others
- Work within established policies, practices and guidelines, as well as established quality and safety checks

**Asset / Resource coordination**
- Determine resource needs within own area of responsibility
- Request required assets and resources for the fulfilment of work duties

**Technical expertise**
- Optimise own work processes
- Identify gaps in current policies, procedures and legislation as it relates to own area of work
- Execute implementation of processes in own area of work

**Reporting & record keeping**
- Provide information for completion of reports
- Maintain and update records and systems as required

**Skills Required**:
**Background/experience**
- 2 - 4 years’ Warehouse experience (preference in Pharmacare)
- Minimum of a National Certification (N4 N6)

**Specific job skills**
- Trainable to operate specialized MHE

**Competencies**
- Interrogating Information
- Meeting Deadlines
- Customer Awareness