PURPOSE :

Warehouse officer  is responsible for the proper handling and storage of goods in the warehouse in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs). S/he supervises and organizes the work of Storekeeper 1 and Loaders.

RELATIONSHIPS 

• Internally, interacts with other logistics staff.
• Externally, interacts with service providers and drivers.

GENERAL DUTIES

• Understands and adheres to the seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• Understands and adheres to the ICRC Code of Conduct.
• Understands the roles of the components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• Respects and observes staff regulations and security rules at all times.
• Represents the ICRC in a professional manner at all times.
• Develops and maintains a pleasant and conducive working environment with colleagues and line managers.
• Performs all duties with the highest level of confidentiality in the interest of the employees and the ICRC.
• May be asked to perform tasks not covered in this job description and to provide support to other departments when necessary.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (as per role description)

• Receives and checks incoming goods against the delivery note and reports any issues.
• Ensures that goods are properly stored, picked, packed and loaded and reports any issues.
• Ensures that all the stored goods are properly labelled (expiry dates, batch numbers, manufacturer, etc.) and recorded.
• Weighs and tallies goods during loading and unloading.
• Updates bin cards and stock cards when supervising an inventory transaction.
• Participates in inventory counts.
• Keeps the facility's equipment and materials neat, clean, and orderly and reports any issues.
• Where required, ensures that temperatures are properly recorded.
• Ensures that risks are mitigated by performing the controls assigned to his/her role as described in the Logistics Risk and Control Matrix.
• Reception of material from suppliers by ensuring the compliance with Purchase Order (Quantity / Quality).
• Ensure the packing of goods safely and securely for transportation.
• Ensure the timely organization of manual loading and unloading of trucks when necessary.
• Ensure the manual filing system is accurate and systematic, so that information can be found easily.

Assets and Equipment Management:

• Ensure that all assets and equipment in the warehouses are tagged.
• Ensure the tracking of the assets / equipment from one location to another or one user to another.
• Ensure the use / maintenance of assets / equipment according to standards.
• Ensure the manual asset and equipment inventory filing system is accurate and systematic, so that information can be found easily.
• Conduct Physical asset and inventory verifications as required and report discrepancies to line manager.
• Support his supervisor for Fumigation and pest control.
• Daily check cleaning, Space, Pest control and Temperature records.

DELEGATION SPECIFIC TASKS:

• Keep the Expired and dangerous goods (chemical, flammable) separately in warehouse.
• Issues claim report (upon request) for missing items and losses/damages only after LCM approval.
• Upon request: Provides requested information and data for compilation of the monthly statistics.
• Maintain adequate filling and archives (Team space and Hard copies).
• Ensure the use / maintenance of assets / equipment according to standards.
• Ensure the manual asset and equipment inventory filing system is accurate and systematic, so that information can be found easily.
• Conduct physical asset and inventory verifications as required and report discrepancies to line manager.
• Ensures FIFO stock rotation or follows the FEFO when applicable and reports if JDE doesn’t works in that way.