JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary/Objective
The Shipping Specialist deals directly with carriers, the warehouse, and clients, prioritizes and assigns inbound work schedules, schedules appointments, researches and resolves discrepancies with inbound loads, and provides a high-level dependable service to the management team.

Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience

• HS diploma or equivalent

Skills and Background

• Warehouse Management System experience preferred
• 1 - 2 years of Forklift experience
• 1 – 2 years of Customer Service experience
• Computer, data entry and internet experience (Microsoft Office Applications, AS400)

Language Requirements

• Ability to hear, read and comprehend, write, and communicate

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is:

• Occasionally required to sit, type, and perform repetitive wrist motion
• Occasionally required to lift up to 100 pounds
• Continuously required to stand, walk, bend, squat/kneel, twist/turn, climb or reach on even and uneven surfaces
• Continuously required to lift up to 50 pounds

Specific vision capabilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus (with or without corrective lenses).

The physical demands herein are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ODW Competencies

• People Focused: Relates well to people, likes to learn, shows ambition and self-motivates, ensures balance
• Customer Driven: Acts with the customer in mind, cares for customers and peers, identifies ways to exceed customers’ expectations
• Business Acumen: High knowledge and skills in their current area, proactively seeks, identifies and suggests new ways of doing things
• Results Driven: Action oriented with high quality and speed, can be counted on, pursues work with energy
• Innovative: Open to new ideas, responds quickly to new approaches, resourceful and versatile

DISCLAIMER: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, success profile characteristics or qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Management retains the discretion to add to or change the duties of the position at any time.

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