Shipper/Checker - 3rd Shift

Qualified Shipper/Checker

What We're Searching for is a Qualified Shipper/Checker to assist coordinating the day-to-day activities in the shipping and receiving offices, including providing customer service to the truck drivers. Strong organizational, teamwork, and self-starter skills will lead you to success in this role.

Hood Container Corporation is a family-owned, mill to market company specializing in containerboard and kraft paper, corrugated boxes, high graphic displays and contract packaging. Our commitment to customer happiness, employee well-being, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence drive our business. Over the last eight years Hood Container Corporation has grown to become one of the top ten Paper and Packaging Companies in the United States. Our integrated company resources allow for a unique dynamic that evolves with every addition to our geographic footprint. We excel at offering the benefits of a large corporation, while operating as a boutique business building close relationships with our customers.

How You Will Contribute:

• Coordinates daily shipping schedule with customer service, purchasing, and production personnel. Notifies appropriate personnel if outgoing shipments will be delayed.
• Prepare work orders for and coordinate repairs of trucks, trailers, forklifts, dock plates, and dock doors.
• Uses appropriate document to perform a blind count during the shipping/receiving process recording all appropriate information such as quantities, item numbers, lot, batch or date codes etc.
• Ensure all incoming materials are unloaded, received and stored in a safe, accurate and efficient manner
• Identifies errors in quantity, location, or part number, and works to correct both in the warehouse and within the system
• Ensures all outbound materials and finished goods are unloaded, secured and shipped in a safe, accurate and efficient manner
• Ensures orders meet requirements for shipping accuracy and guidelines for customer satisfaction.
• Customizes skids for customer specific needs.
• Inspects the condition of the carrier's equipment and freight contained within for damage, which has occurred during shipment
• Tracks shipments from various carriers, via telephone and internet, to obtain information as needed.
• Processes shipping paperwork, including but not limited to, bills of lading, customs paperwork, and parcel airway bills using various carrier websites.
• Moves materials to/from the proper location updating the inventory systems as this is done
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

What it Takes:

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• 2 years shipping/forklift experience
• Read and write complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Strong communications skills, both verbal and written; must possess ability to communicate appropriately and professionally with internal customers and external vendors.
• Able to work overtime as needed; significant overtime may be required during busy periods.
• Ability to operate a forklift
• Capable of maintaining good attendance.
• Ability to lift 50lbs, walking, standing, stooping, pushing and/or pulling, kneeling, reaching, and climbing