Shipping & Receiving Lead-Day Shift

We build leaders in precision.

ARCH recognizes and rewards our employees’ contributions with a competitive total rewards package.

This position offers:

• Competitive base rate - $35-40 per hour depending on experience.  
• Medical/Prescription Drug/Dental/Vision Benefits on Day 1 of employment
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• 4.5% company match if you contribute at least 5%
• Quarterly Bonus potential
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 8 company paid holidays per year
• Employer paid Life Insurance, AD & D plus optional coverage for yourself, spouse and child(ren)
• Employee Assistance Program
• MN Paid Leave/and/or Short-Term Disability provided by ARCH
• $2,000 Sign on Bonus

Join our team if you thrive in a challenging, meaningful work environment and take pride in precision, accountability, and craftsmanship!

Position Summary:

Responsible for directing and coordinating shipping and receiving activities. You will work closely with operations, quality, finance, and a wide range of internal and external suppliers to drive strategic planning, approvals, and execution across all raw and product materials. In addition to delivering the business goals, you will work across the organization to build processes that will act as a foundation for the Shipping and Receiving of items for the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with management to establish shipping and receiving control standards, develop budget and cost controls.
• Ensure proper shipment of all manufactured goods
• Ensure proper receipt of all purchased items
• Manage all raw materials including Kanban materials
• Ensure all inventory accuracies (counts); including raw material, purchased items, and finished goods
• Plan and direct shipping and receiving activities and establish department priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
• Coordinate shipping and receiving activities with operations, procurement, and quality control departments to obtain optimum levels.
• Develop and implement operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve department performance.
• Revise shipping schedules and priorities as needed and communicate to internal stakeholders.
• Resolve employee grievances as required. Elevate unresolved grievances to management.
• Work with team to improve Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), including accurate counting, labeling, lot traceability documentation, verification of work steps.
• Compile, store, and retrieve department data. Ensure all data integrity.
• Review data entry errors to identify process improvements that focus on reduced errors.
• Lead cycle counting activities for improved inventory accuracy.
• Lead the cross-training efforts of the shipping and receiving team members.
• Maintain inventory of shipping materials and supplies.
• Develop and drive continuous improvement and Lean initiatives to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in both the material and information flow processes. Apply best practices mentality to both large scale projects and day-to-day actions. This includes overproduction, defects, transportation, waiting, inventory, motion, and over-processing.
• Use ERP System to schedule and expedite the release and completion of work orders for sawing operations.
• Back-up the Sr. Buyer on preparing purchase orders or bid requests.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• A minimum of 1 year of experience in a shipping and receiving department; manufacturing environment experience a plus

• Due to contractual requirements, this position is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which requires U.S. person status. ITAR defines U.S. person as an U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate degree from a two-year college or technical school
• Experience using ERP (Epicor a plus) systems and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to express concepts effectively.
• Ability to be open-minded and work well with others and in a team environment.
• Excellent initiative, independently identify situations that need direction and follow through on corrections.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Additional Notes:

ARCH Global Holdings LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employee and wholeheartedly supports diversity in the workplace as a basic premise for business success.  All employees of ARCH Global Holdings LLC are employed on an at-will basis.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

About Us:

ARCH is a consolidated contract manufacturing company-a combination of engineering expertise and precision-machining technologies to serve the medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets. We offer a synergy of resources to reduce manufacturing costs, optimize performance of components and products, and mitigate supply chain risks. Our facilities are strategically located across the U.S. to optimize outsourced precision-machining needs.

Founded in 2011 by Strength Capital Partners, ARCH is structured to provide the capacity, flexibility, and scalability to succeed. We provide design for manufacturability, prototyping, on-site application testing, program management, technical support and customized services. Working with ARCH, businesses gain the advantage of an expanding range of cutting-edge resources for all precision-machining needs.

ARCH serves medical, aerospace and defense, and a range of tight-tolerance market applications. We provide full-integration support throughout the entire process, including precision machining, finishing, and technical mechanical assembly services. We offer design-for-manufacturability expertise and prototype through production at our American-based facilities.