Shipping and Receiving Clerk

Shipping and Receiving Clerk

Department: Westport Other

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Westport

Reporting To: Gabriel Esparza

Compensation: $18.75 / hour

Description

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members' personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence-which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.


Summary:

The Shipping and Receiving Clerk at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Warehouse team supporting efforts of operational efficiency, reducing downtime, and minimizing errors in inventory management and order fulfillment processes. This position involves receiving, checking, and validating incoming materials, and is ideal for someone who is organized, can prioritize tasks efficiently, and is adaptable.


Key Responsibilities

1. Receiving and Inventory Management:
   • Receive, check, and validate the accuracy of incoming materials
   • Enter receipts into computer
   • Print receiving tickets
   • Identify received materials and deliver for storage/use
   • Reconcile pallets
   • Weigh outgoing product
   • Load outgoing materials
   • Put stock in designated locations, as needed
   • Maintain a clean organized warehouse, dock, and shipping office
   • Scrap handling including preparation for pick-up
   • Participate in physical inventory and cycle counts
   • Report inventory discrepancies
2. Shipping and Order Fulfillment:
   • Pull, package, and ship parts orders according to established procedures
   • Track packages as requested
   • Apply shipping charges to customer orders for invoicing
   • Issue return authorizations
   • Consistently achieve shipment of products without delays or returns
   • Read and interpret instructions to retrieve, assemble, and prepare products/materials for shipment
   • Operate site computerized system and perform required data entry
   • Comply with health, safety, and environmental requirements/procedures at all times

Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.

What you bring to Pacific Seafood

Education and Experience

• Required
  • High school diploma or GED
  • Two years related experience and/or training
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience
• Preferred
  • Forklift certification

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:

• Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Conditions
The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:

• Office, as well as warehouse environment.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.
• Plant exposure to wet, cold, and/or humid temperatures.
• Standard office equipment and heavy machinery.

Benefits

Total compensation:

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:

• Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short-term disability.
• Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses
• 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match
• Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include sick days, holiday pay, vacation, and personal time
• Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members
• Product purchase program

Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.