Receiving Clerk

Job Description

Job Description

The Receiving Clerk receives, inspects, verifies, and documents incoming materials and components to ensure compliance with purchase orders, engineering specifications, and company quality requirements. The primary focus is on identifying defects and discrepancies before materials enter inventory or production, while supporting accurate SyteLine transactions and timely material flow.

$20 - $23 hourly

Incoming Material Inspection & Quality Control

• Inspect raw materials, electrical components, fabricated parts, and assemblies for damage, defects, dimensions, quantities, and specification compliance.

• Compare shipments with purchase orders, packing slips, engineering drawings, part numbers, and applicable certifications.

• Use tape measures, calipers, micrometers, and other approved tools to perform dimensional checks.

• Document inspection results; identify, label, segregate, and place nonconforming or questionable material on hold.

• Escalate quality concerns to Purchasing, Engineering, or designated Quality/Operations personnel; prevent release until authorized.

Receiving & ERP Documentation

• Unload and verify deliveries against purchase orders, packing slips, and freight documentation.

• Record accurate receiving transactions in SyteLine; report shortages, overages, damage, and incorrect shipments.

• Maintain complete receiving and inspection records and coordinate resolution of discrepancies.

Inventory & Production Support

• Label accepted materials, maintain traceability, and transfer items to designated inventory locations.

• Assist with inventory location accuracy, cycle counts, staging, and kitting as workload permits.

• Prioritize inspections for production needs and communicate material issues that may affect schedules.

Safety & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain a safe, organized receiving area; use handling equipment only when trained and authorized.

• Maintain inspection tools and recommend improvements to receiving and inspection processes.

• High school diploma or GED required; 2+ years in receiving, inspection, warehouse, or manufacturing preferred.

• Experience with incoming inspection, basic engineering drawings, measurement tools, and material specifications preferred.

• Accurate computer/data-entry skills; ERP experience preferred (SyteLine a plus).

• Strong attention to detail, organization, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Scott Manufacturing Solutions, Inc., a leader in designing and producing medium-voltage pole- and pad-mounted equipment for the American utility and adjacent industries, provides customers with complete, fully customized power distribution solutions built to the highest quality standards.

At Scott Manufacturing Solutions, Inc., we see our ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) structure as a competitive advantage. Each of our employees is a "business owner" with a vested interest in our success. We're also proud of our status as an MBE (Minority Business Enterprise)/DBE Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) supplier that complies with these requirements.

We are building a world-class company at Scott Manufacturing Solutions, Inc., and the way we do that is by living our core values , supporting our company's vision , and working together towards one common goal to always be at our best through continuous and never-ending improvements.