Contract Logistics 1st Shift Warehouse Specialist (Shipping) - Union City, GA

It's More Than A Job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you're leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers' products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouseit helps shape the flow of global trade.

As a Contract Logistics Specialist at Kuehne+Nagel, you will oversee comprehensive warehousing operations for our clients. By executing these tasks with accuracy, you will support your team's success and ensure smooth daily operations within warehouses and distribution centers. For instance, you will handle the storage and delivery of sensitive items such as fresh flowers and ingredients to local stores for daily meals and family events. At Kuehne+Nagel, our efforts have a broader impact than we often realize. Reporting to the Operations Supervisor, the Shipping Warehouse Specialist is accountable for managing logistics activities effectively, aligning with the company's service, quality, and cost standards. You will work Monday through Friday, from 5:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with a weekly payment rate of $19.48 per hour. Availability for overtime work may be required as needed.

How You Create Impact

• Confirm and accept materials into inventory
• Labels and records packages for storage or transportation
• May also involve palletizing and applying shrink-wrap for secure packaging
• Retrieves products or supplies based on the pick sheet instructions
• Verify orders by comparing them with the pull sheets
• Prepare items for shipment by securely boxing them, generating accurate shipping labels, and maintaining comprehensive records of all outgoing deliveries
• Process returned goods, accurately document any damages and discrepancies, and restock the merchandise accordingly
• Ensure your work area remains clean, organized, and orderly at all times
• Provide support in resolving shipping challenges and addressing customer concerns effectively
• Support the consistent maintenance of necessary security standards
• Provide support for conducting cycle count inventories
• Ensure adherence to ISO 9001, AS 9100/9120 Quality Management Systems and QSHE Management System
• Capacity to maintain standing posture for extended durations
• Overtime and weekend work as required
• Capability to meet the business requirements of the relevant team regarding attendance, overtime, punctuality, and shift scheduling

What We Would Like You To Bring

• Prior experience of at least one year in a warehouse environment is preferred.
• Previous experience in Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) is preferred.
• Exceptional verbal communication abilities
• Capability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously
• Proficiency in operating personal computers and handling materials equipment
• Ability to effectively handle multiple, simultaneous tasks
• Demonstrated fundamental mathematical proficiency equivalent to a high school level
• Technical proficiency with computers

What's In It For You

There has never been a better time to work in logistics. Bring your skills to an industry that offers stability and international career growth. We offer great compensation and medical/dental benefits packages, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs, and a fun, and interesting global work environment. #LI-onsite

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment. Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel.

Who We Are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.