Shipping Clerk

Shipping Clerk

Job Category: Operations

Full-Time

On-site

Red Bud, IL 62278, USA

Pay or shift range: $18 USD to $20 USD The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Travel Required: No

Job Details

Safety:

• Comply with all safety requirements and maintain a strong safety culture. Must have a safety-first mentality through proactively speaking up about concerns, following PPE requirements and setting an example for others to follow.
• Use caution when driving the forklift and follows all rules from training.
• Maintains the work area and equipment in accordance with 5S requirements for cleanliness.

Quality:

• Inspect materials and ensure bills of lading are correct.
• Verify the quantity and quality of material received.
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork.
• Set an example for team members of commitment, application of skill, work ethics and habits and personal character.
• Completes daily entries in ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics).

Delivery:

• Pick orders from stock or from staging area.
• Prepare product for shipping to customers
• Ensure customer order and product matches: box, crate, shrink-wrap as necessary
• Contact common carriers and schedule pick-ups, ensuring the meeting of customer delivery requirements
• Creates BOL's and contacts carriers to comply with customers' requirements.
• Ability to call in trucks and make BOL's.
• Load trucks with outgoing products and unload trucks with incoming materials
• Place incoming materials into storage
• Pull materials from storage and deliver to production as needed.
• Operate various machines to include wrapper, bander, hand tools, forklift, various hand and power tools, etc.
• Affix completed address label and any other special labels required for the handling of material and specified by the carrier.
• Acts as a liaison with purchasing to coordinate inbound freight.
• Monitors day-to-day order flow in warehouse and coordinates with supervisor and area leaders to allocate labor/equipment resources appropriately to meet company service goals.
• Enter Build Plan Transactions in and out of warehouse.

Cost:

• Identify and implement improvements in coordination with the engineering team.
• 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.

What Will Put You Ahead:

• High School diploma or equivalent is desired.
• At least 3 years of general shipping & warehouse is desired.
• 1+ year of experience with shipping and calling carriers.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Knowledge of ERP systems, preferred Microsoft Dynamics (Dynamics AX or D365).
• Solid PC skills, spreadsheet development abilities and working knowledge of designated software.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a wide variety of Company personnel and others.
• Requires the ability to operate various hand and power tools.
• Requires the ability to pass forklift operator course and drive a forklift.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Looking for a strong safety minded, enthusiastic person with can do attitude. Strong attention to detail with excellent problem-solving ability. Must have excellent work ethic with strong communication skills to engage with both the customer and internal teams.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle or touch objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; reach above the shoulders; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
• Required to wear the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to include, eye protection, and steel toe shoes.

Work Environment

• The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) while in the manufacturing environment such as steel toe shoes, eye protection. The employee may occasionally work in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate to loud, and hearing protection is required in specific areas of the facility.

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