What are the responsibilities and job description for the Shipping Clerk position at Yates Industries Inc?
Job Title: Shipping Clerk
Department: New
Reports To: Plant Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Position Overview:
The Shipping Clerk plays a critical role in ensuring the efficient and accurate processing of all outgoing shipments. This role ensures shipments are properly packaged, verified, documented, and dispatched in accordance with company standards, customer requirements, and transportation regulations. The Shipping Clerk must maintain meticulous records of all shipping activities, including tracking shipments and managing inventory levels related to outgoing goods. Attention to detail, adherence to safety standards, and strong organizational skills are essential to success in this position.
Essential Duties: (Additional duties may be assigned as required.)
- Prepare and process shipping documents including bills of lading, packing slips, and shipping labels.
- Verify outgoing shipments against sales orders, work orders, and customer requirements.
- Schedule pickups and deliveries with freight carriers and logistics providers.
- Inspect goods prior to shipment to confirm correct quantities, specifications, and documentation.
- Maintain accurate shipping records in ERP or inventory management systems.
- Communicate with carriers and logistics providers to schedule pickups, track shipments, and resolve discrepancies
- Build and process shipping containers
- Assist with loading trucks using forklifts, pallet jacks or other material handling equipment.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe shipping area.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above, and below, are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Ability:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Math Ability:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, including whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Education/Experience:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Equipment:
- Power tools
- Forklift
- Pallet jack
- Overhead Crane
- Ability to read tape measures
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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 required to wear safety glasses and hard sole/close toed shoes with a low heel when walking through the manufacturing shop and/or repair shop whether as part of performing their job or just passing through. In addition, long hair must be tied back when around hazards of flame, machinery, or equipment.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Yates Industries, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and provides employment and advancement opportunities to its employees without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and conditions related to pregnancy), sexual orientation, transgender status, weight, height, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship, disability, genetic makeup, military or veteran status, misdemeanor arrest record (not resulting in conviction) or any other protected characteristic as established by law. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, employee benefits, promotional opportunities, disciplinary decisions, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.