Shipping And Receiving Clerk

Shipping/Receiving Clerk

The Shipping/Receiving Clerk will support daily warehouse and distribution operations by managing incoming and outgoing materials, maintaining inventory accuracy, and ensuring products are shipped and stored correctly. This role plays a critical part in ensuring customers receive the right products on time while maintaining organized warehouse inventory.

Responsibilities

• Process parcel, LTL, and freight shipments through appropriate carrier systems and portals.
• Generate shipping labels, packing slips, bills of lading (BOLs), and related shipping documents.
• Verify part numbers, quantities, weights, dimensions, addresses, and shipping instructions before releasing orders.
• Receive incoming materials and validate shipments against supporting documentation.
• Perform putaway of received materials into designated warehouse locations and enter inventory transactions using ERP/WMS systems and RF scanners.
• Replenish picking locations and move inventory throughout the warehouse as needed.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and report discrepancies, shortages, overages, or damaged materials.
• Safely operate pallet jacks, hand trucks, and other material handling equipment.
• Prepare freight through labeling, wrapping, strapping, and palletizing.
• Coordinate with carriers and warehouse personnel to ensure on-time shipments.
• Maintain organized shipping, receiving, staging, and storage areas.
• Assist with cycle counts, inventory audits, and additional warehouse duties.
• Follow company safety procedures and material handling best practices.

Essential Skills

• Experience processing parcel, LTL, and freight shipments.
• Ability to receive, verify, and accurately release outbound shipments.
• Familiarity with carrier portals and shipping workflows.
• Experience performing putaway into designated warehouse locations.
• Maintaining inventory accuracy through proper material movement and replenishment.
• Understanding of warehouse/bin location systems and inventory tracking.
• Experience recording inventory transactions using ERP, WMS, or inventory management systems.
• Ability to accurately scan and track inventory movement using RF scanners.
• Ability to generate labels, packing slips, and bills of lading.
• Experience verifying quantities, dimensions, weights, addresses, and shipping instructions before shipment.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Previous warehouse shipping and putaway experience.
• Experience reading packing slips, purchase orders, shipping documents, and bills of lading.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to verify quantities, part numbers, and shipping information.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a warehouse team.
• Strong communication, organization, and time-management skills.
• Ability to safely lift and move materials consistent with position requirements.
• Experience with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and LTL freight carriers.
• Experience using UPS WorldShip.
• Forklift experience.
• Experience with order picking, inventory control, cycle counting, packing, and palletizing.

Why Work Here?

Enjoy competitive pay with a temp-to-hire opportunity that offers long-term potential. Benefit from a consistent first-shift schedule with no nights or weekends, and optional overtime opportunities for additional earnings. Join a family-friendly and team-oriented workplace culture where you can utilize a broad warehouse skill set, including shipping, receiving, inventory management, and warehouse operations.

Work Environment

Onsite warehouse/distribution environment with a fast-paced operation supporting shipping, receiving, inventory, and material movement activities. Expect frequent interaction with warehouse personnel and transportation carriers. Utilize RF scanners, ERP/WMS systems, pallet jacks, and shipping software. Regular standing, walking, lifting, and material handling throughout the workday. The schedule is Monday-Friday first shift.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Trenton, NJ.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $21.00 - $22.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 6, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Trenton, NJ.