Materials Management Assistant

• Receive, inspect, and verify incoming shipments against purchase orders and packing slips, resolving quantity or damage discrepancies.
• Store and organize materials safely in warehouses, stockrooms, or central stores, using inventory or warehouse management systems.
• May pick, stage, and deliver orders to academic departments, labs, residence halls, and administrative offices according to service requests or standing stock levels.
• Maintain accurate inventory records, perform cycle counts or physical inventories, and assist with surplus, returns, and disposal processes in line with university policies. May optimize stock levels, using firstin/firstout practices, avoiding stockouts, and reducing shelf-life waste in purchasing.
  
  

• Frequently lifts, carries, pushes, or pulls materials and boxes, often in the 25-50 pound range.
• Stands, walks, bends, reaches, and climbs step stools or ladders for extended periods while stocking shelves, staging orders, and making deliveries.

• Works primarily in warehouses, loading docks, stockrooms, and storerooms, with regular movement between storage areas and campus building warehouses.
• May be exposed to varying temperatures, noise, and frequent equipment use (pallet jacks, carts, forklifts, where certified).
  
  

Qualified candidates will hold a high school diploma/GED plus 1.5 years of relevant professional experience, or, a Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant area of study. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position. Degree requirements may be substituted with an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

• Knowledge of Remedy ITSM, IBUY, and Enterprise Accounting System preferred
• Prior experience with inventory management, preferably in an IT environment
• Strong computer skills desired, including proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency with data entry
• Experience with best practice documentation of policies and procedures is preferred
• Proven experience in shipping and receiving and conducting assets audits is desired
• Experience working in the area of e-cycling hardware assets is preferred
• Working experience with purchasing and tracking all assets, including mobile devices, employee workstations, and network equipment and servers, is desired
• Strong vendor management skills is preferred
• Ability to be flexible and service-oriented in a knowledge-sharing working environment
• Experience working in a higher education or campus environment is considered
• Experience with maintaining Software Maintenance dashboards is desired.
• Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems for work operations is preferred.
  
  

• Commitment to GW's values;
• Intellectual, professional and a person of integrity;
• Honest, with the highest ethical standards;
• Passionate, collaborative, strategic, and smart with a hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves orientation;
• Ability to work independently. Self-starter; hard worker. Takes initiative; very high energy;
• Personally accountable. Assumes ownership, control and accountability for all areas of responsibility and commitments made to others;
• Sincere, open, and direct communicator. Puts organizational interests above self-interests and is comfortable expressing candid opinions;
• Highest levels of responsiveness;
• Combination of strong intellect that is combined with a practical and realistic common sense understanding of how to get things done;
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, a strong desire to succeed and exert the extraordinary effort often required;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment;
• Ability to work with faculty and staff in a respectful way;
• Establish trust and credibility with institutional leadership and across the University;
• Seeks "win-win" solutions to help foster continued integration and collaboration;
• Flexible and receptive to change; and
• A positive "can-do" attitude

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The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.