Logistics Apprentice

Apprenticeship contract / Crans-Montana, Switzerland

Les Roches Global Hospitality Education, ranked in the top 3 for Hospitality & Leisure Management by the QS World University Ranking, is a brand of the Sommet Education Group. Founded in 1954, Les Roches is a private institution based on the Swiss model of experiential learning, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in hospitality, tourism and event management. Les Roches prepares entrepreneurial and innovative graduates across a global network of campuses in Crans-Montana (Switzerland), Marbella (Spain) and Abu Dhabi (UAE).

You share our values: Development, Distinctiveness, Joint commitment, Openness and Sense of service

Reception and management

• Receive goods, identify and check products.
• Verify delivery documents, unload goods.
• Store products according to their nature, define packaging for hazardous substances and perishable goods.
• Use various IT and communication tools to transmit, record and save data.
• Manage stock status.
• Document control.
• Unloading goods.
• Quantitative and qualitative control.
• Integrate received goods into the company stock.
• Check delivery notes, packaging condition, and ensure that quantities, models and product characteristics correspond to what you ordered from your supplier.

Ensure receipt of goods, storage and destocking

• Handle loading and unloading of goods
• Ensure receipt, verify conformity and quantity of goods and report anomalies
• Store goods
• Organise storage areas

Manage goods flow

• Manage stock status to supply store shelves
• Prepare orders: picking, preparation, shipping
• Perform grouping or ungrouping of goods
• Operate handling equipment
• Ensure packaging and repackaging of certain products
  

Distribution

• Process orders received by mail, fax, email or phone and prepare them within the set deadline.
• Package goods safely, economically and ecologically.
• Prepare shipping documents by computer (delivery notes, customs forms).
• Plan and organise distribution according to the type of goods, recipient, means of transport (truck, train, ship, plane, etc.), deadline, etc.
• Ship goods or load transport vehicles.
• Make deliveries according to client requirements.

Tasks specific to Storage orientation

• Store goods in warehouses, respect shelf loading standards.
• Optimise the organisation system of items in storage areas.
• Evaluate stocks at all times to maintain an optimal flow of goods in and out.
• Calculate stock turnover frequency, establish statistics.
• Identify unsold items and process them.
• Dispose of waste according to environmental standards.

Experience

Any previous professional experience will be appreciated.

Skills

• Organised and methodical
• Teamwork
• Rigour and adherence to procedures
• Willingness to learn and openness to experience
• Interest in multicultural and multilingual environments.
• Languages: fluent French and ideally English.