Shipping/Receiving Clerk

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Receiving Shipping Servicer

Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program, and education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our North Chicago, IL (Lake County) location in the Core Diagnostics Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

As the Receiving Shipping Servicer , the primary functions of this job include but are not limited to inspecting and receiving diagnostic products into various WMS (Warehouse Management System). Put away diagnostic products into a designated location. Perform picking, order assembly, packaging and labeling of diagnostic products for shipment to affiliates and end customers.

Shift: Mon-Fri 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

What You’ll Work On

• Under direct supervision, this new team member will follow established procedures and guidelines to receive, handle, store, record, and dispatch goods in a store or warehouse.

• Utilization of forklifts and various other material handling equipment to unload/load trailers and move product throughout the warehouse.

• Inspect incoming products for damage and verify them against the shipping manifest for accuracy.

• Utilization of multiple computer systems to accurately process receipts, put away, picks, replenishment.

• Elevate inventory discrepancies to inventory control or management for resolution.

• Effectively work with QA organizations to disposition incoming product.

• Packaging and labeling of customer orders which require heavy lifting and standing.

• Failure to properly receive and process orders could result in fines to the company, product loss, and negative impact on compliance or regulatory status.

• Improperly processed orders could result in product shortages preventing customer or manufacturing orders from being fulfilled.

• Failure to perform systems transactions accurately could result in inventory discrepancies, inadequate tracing and destruction of product.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED

• Incumbent must be able to perform basic math; read; understand and make decisions based upon written operating procedures

• Must have good hand eye coordination and general math and reasoning skills

• Basic computer knowledge for data input and making decisions related to inventory part, lot and quantity

• Experience working in a dynamic environment with frequent changes to priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous forklift experience and the ability to meet Abbott requirements for obtaining forklift certification

• Experience working in a dynamic environment with frequent changes to priorities

• Experience with warehouse management systems

• Forklift Certification

• Ability to work overtime as necessary

• Ability to work in cold storage/freezer at -20˚ C or colder

• Ability to work in cooler at 2˚ C to 8˚ C

• Ability to work at heights up to 40 feet

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization

• Multitasks, prioritizes, and meets deadlines in timely manner

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The base pay for this position is $16.85 – $33.75 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.