Shipping Lead

Job Overview:

The Shipping Lead is responsible for supporting daily shipping operations by leading associates, coordinating workflow, and ensuring customer orders are shipped safely, accurately, and on time. This role helps drive productivity, quality, and safety while serving as a floor leader for the shipping team. This is an on-site hourly position and will require a daily presence at our RectorSeal Earth City, MO facility, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with overtime as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support daily shipping operations, including picking, staging, packing, loading, and shipment verification.
• Assign work and help prioritize daily tasks to meet shipping schedules and customer expectations.
• Monitor workflow to ensure productivity, accuracy, and quality standards are achieved.
• Train and coach associates on standard work, safety procedures, equipment operation, and shipping processes.
• Assist with resolving shipping errors, inventory discrepancies, damaged products, and operational issues.
• Ensure shipments are properly labeled, scanned, documented, and loaded correctly.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
• Communicate operational updates, staffing concerns, and issues to leadership.
• Support KPI tracking, including lines shipped, productivity, dock flow, and shipment accuracy.
• Help enforce company policies, attendance expectations, and safety standards.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years of recent warehouse or distribution center experience.
• 3+ years of recent experience operating material handling equipment, such as forklifts, pallet jacks, walkie riders, and order selectors.
• Understanding of Bills of Lading (BOLs), shipping documentation, and freight paperwork.

Preferred Requirements:

• Prior leadership or lead experience.
• Basic computer and WMS experience.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced warehouse environment.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to a non-climate-controlled warehouse environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands and fingers to type or dial, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arms.

The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. This position requires computer use. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits: At RectorSeal, our employees enjoy the following benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, paid time off program with paid holidays, and various wellness programs.

About RectorSeal

Based in Houston, Texas, RectorSeal, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of CSW Industrials, Inc. [NYSE: CSW] and is a leading provider of quality solutions for the professional trades serving heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC/R), plumbing, electrical, and construction markets. For more information about RectorSeal’s innovative products and brands that increase efficiency and improve reliability, please visit

About CSW Industrials CSW Industrials is a diversified industrial growth company with industry-leading operations in three segments: Contractor Solutions, Specialized Reliability Solutions, and Engineered Building Solutions. CSW provides niche, value-added products with two essential commonalities: performance and reliability. The primary end markets we serve with our well-known brands include HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, general industrial, architecturally-specified building products, energy, mining, and rail transportation.

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