Shipping and Receiving Specialist

Description

Summary: Packs and prepares customer orders for shipping, receives material and equipment, and loads and unloads trucks according to established procedures and shipping regulations, meeting customer delivery requirements. 

Responsibilities & Duties:  

• Operates lift trucks or hand trucks to convey, move or hoist materials to proper departments or areas. 
• Complete daily preventative maintenance for lift trucks. 
• Pick orders from stock or from staging area. 
• Prepare products for shipping to customers. 
• Ensure customer order and products match; box, crate, wrap as necessary. 
• Load trucks with outgoing products and unload trucks with incoming materials. 
• Inspect materials and ensure bills of lading are correct. 
• Communicates issues to the reporting Supervisor. 
• Verify the quantity and quality of material received. 
• Place incoming materials into storage. 
• Pull materials from storage and deliver to production as needed. 
• Operate a bander to band boxes to be shipped. 
• Affix completed address label, and any other special labels required for the handling of material and specified by the carrier. 
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork. 
• Maintain departmental housekeeping standards. 
• Process recycled products. 

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time. 

Requirements

Education and/or Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent, one to three years’ relevant experience, or equivalent combination of both. 

• Valid state motor vehicle operator’s license 
• Satisfactorily pass forklift driving and overhead crane training 

Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  
• Ability to critically think and solve problems. 
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. 

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The phrases “occasionally,” “regularly,” and “frequently” correspond to the following definitions: “Occasionally” means up to 1/3 of working time, “regularly” means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and “frequently” means 2/3 and more working time). 

• Frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Occasionally lift or move up to 70 pounds. 
• Frequently working on feet, using tools, and performing repetitive actions that entail frequent bending and stooping. 
• Regularly sitting for extended periods of time. 
• Regularly staring at a screen for extended periods of time. 

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee works in a factory environment and is occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals. He/she is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is loud.