Shipping Coordinator

Shipping Coordinator

FECON, LLC is a vegetation management equipment manufacturer located in Lebanon, Ohio near Kings Island Amusement Park. FECON is known for having very high-quality products and a team culture and we are growing! We design, build, test, sell and service our equipment consisting of products such as our well-known "Bull Hog" mulchers, the Stump Ex, our high-quality FTX tractors of varying horsepower, as well as many other attachments. We offer competitive wages, full health care benefits and a continuous learning culture for those who want to grow with the company.

Job Summary: The Shipping Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the daily shipping activities to ensure that customer orders are shipped timely and accurately, the use of trucks and trailers, and the shipment of finished goods.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Facilitates logistics for all finished goods including inbound, outbound, import and export.
• Selects carriers and schedules trucks.
• Controls logistics costs
• Notifies stakeholders of items shipped, delays and tracking numbers.
• Completes all paperwork, including customs documentation.
• Audits all freight bills for accuracy and handles billing disputes.
• Assists parts department with international documentation as needed.
• Ensures work areas are clean and orderly.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to readily modify, respond to and integrate change with minimal personal resistance.
• Ability to be resilient in the face of difficulty and adversity.
• Ability to interpret and carry out a variety of instructions in diagram or schedule form; deals with problems involving several concrete variables.
• Ability to listen to, understand and anticipate customer needs while developing solutions and ensures commitments are made to the customer.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent. Some college is preferred.
• Some logistics management experience.
• Forklift license.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking or lifting and ability to carry items up to 50 lbs.
• Infrequent stooping, kneeling, twisting, pushing, pulling of items weighing 200 lbs with the use of cranes.
• Occasional repetitive movements using finger and hands for gripping pressure.
• Required to wear safety boots.
• Occasional wearing of safety glasses and gloves.
• Frequently work indoors and around moving vehicles.
• Infrequent exposure to temps less than 55 degrees, dust, disagreeable odors, intermittent noise greater than 85 dB wearing foam ear plugs, work with machinery with moving parts and be outdoors.