DARCY KELLY
Calgary,AB
Summary
With over 30 years of hands-on experience in warehouse operations, bring expertise in receiving incoming merchandise, storing products, cataloging items, and verifying receipt of items. With a keen eye for identifying important information such as lot numbers, expiry dates, style, size, brand, and type of material to ensure ease of picking orders. Having well-honed organizational, labor, and teamwork skills, becoming an outgoing individual who thrives in busy warehouse environments. Throughout a long career, being consistently supportive of warehouse operations by maintaining accurate records and inspecting shipments. Excelling at evaluating products, processing paperwork, and coordinating movements around warehouse locations. Additionally, becoming familiar with equipment operation and proactive maintenance.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Warehouse Lead
Rimports
09.2021 - 06.2024
- Moving from a warehouse associate to supervisor of 2 part time people in the warehouse
- Working with the warehouse manager to coordinate the day to day operations to make sure the orders are picked, the trailers are loaded, the inventory is checked and reconciled
- Receiving, unloading trailers, containers from China, sorting products as per warehouse procedures, detail check in as per packing slips, moving stock to pick or to overstock locations, reporting shortage, overages and damage stock to management team
- Order fulfillment, picking orders, picking weights 15 to 35 kg throughout the day
- Keeping accuracy to a high standard above 95%
- Packing orders for courier shipping
- Using courier platforms such as Canada Post, UPS, FedEx
- Shipping, taking photos of pallets for backup as per warehouse procedure, wrapping pallets, labeling pallets with packing slip, pallet labels, and proper destination
- Filling out B.O.L
- For trucking companies
- Loading shipments on to carriers, filing paper work
- Doing inventory and researching where the errors are occurring and trying to find solutions to minimize errors
- Reconciling counts and sending reports to the management team
- Warehouse safety, keeping the work space safe and clean
- Doing office procedures, filing paper work, reconciling inventories, doing weekly reports from vendors for shipping errors, setting up and preparing for displays at key times in the year like, Christmas, Black Friday
- Controlling any reworks that need to be done.
- Managed a team of warehouse personnel, delegating tasks effectively to optimize workflow.
Warehouse Forklift Operator
Bolt Supply House
01.2020 - 09.2021
- Receiving, unloading, sorting, detail check in as per packing slips, moving stock to pick or to overstock locations, reporting shortages and damages to management team
- Order fulfillment, picking orders, picking weights 25 to 45 kg throughout the day, picking accuracy 96 to 97% at 100 plus lines an hour
- Shipping, doing spot checks on orders being shipped, packaging and sealing boxes for shipping, routing and weighing packages for shipping and labeling cases for each courier
- Filling in waybills for LTL and transport companies
- Setting up pickup times for LTL loads
- Inventory, setting up counts for RF guns, counting locations and reconciling inventory after counts
- Researching where product has been shorted/over and reporting to the management team
- Taking care of dated items as per company SOP
- Helping in warehouse safety, keeping safe workspace, and keeping up with housekeeping in the warehouse.
Lead Hand
Arbonne International
09.2011 - 06.2019
- Overseeing warehouse operations as lead hand
- Moving staff to areas throughout the day
- Overseeing the order and shipping areas, the kitting area, the receiving area
- Filling in as need and where extra staffing was needed
- Reporting to management on order flow, and kits needed for the weekly product launches
- Adding and removing stock as new items were brought on and old items removed
- Quality assurance
- Sending product for testing and moving products into and out of quarantine as per company SOP
- Setting up new products and moving locations as need
- Taking care of month end, year end closes as well as year end audits
- Receiving, unloading, sorting, detail check in as per packing slips, moving stock to pick or to overstock locations, reporting shortages and damages to the management team
- Shipping, spot checking accuracy on orders being shipped, packaging and sealing boxes for shipping, routing, and weighing packages for shipping and labeling cases for each courier
- Filling in waybills for city delivery and transport companies
- Setting up pickup times for transportation companies
- Setting up incoming shipments
- Inventory, setting up counts for RF guns, counting locations and reconciling inventory after counts
- Researching where product has been shorted/over and reporting to the management team
- Taking care of dated items as per company SOP
- Company standard was having 3 full inventories each year
- Helping in warehouse safety, keeping safe work spaces, and doing housekeeping in the warehouse.
Education
High School -
Crescent Heights High School
Calgary Alberta01.1980
Skills
- Punctual, reliable, and committed
- Inventory Control
- Oracle, RF, Net suite, SAP
- Office Suite, Word, Excel, Outlook
- Self-starter and works well within a team
- Detail-oriented with extraordinary problem-solving skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
Shipping and receiving
Order Picking
Supervisory Experience
Warehouse functions
Forklift safety and operation
Equipmentexperience
- Current Raymond Reach Truck Certification
- Narrow Isle Reach
- Double deep reach
- Order Picker
- Electric and manual floor jacks
- Dock Stocker
- Electric/Propane sit down forklifts
- Previously First aid certified
References
- Dave Lovegrove, Operational Manager, Arbonne Canada, 1(416)774-8101
- Vince Renny, Warehouse Manager, Arbonne Canada (Calgary), 1(403)606-6384
- Heather Morgan, Operational Manager, Rimports Canada, 1(403)585-6543
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- License Forklifts - 08/Oct/2021 - 08/Oct/2024
Woodworking,
My hobby is woodworking. I make small signs and items to resell as side hustle. I have only been doing the woodworking for a little over a year now and just learning the finer details of my hobby.
Timeline
Warehouse Lead
Rimports
09.2021 - 06.2024
Warehouse Forklift Operator
Bolt Supply House
01.2020 - 09.2021
Lead Hand
Arbonne International
09.2011 - 06.2019
High School -
Crescent Heights High School
- License Forklifts - 08/Oct/2021 - 08/Oct/2024
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