Distribution Shipping Clerk

About the role

The Shipping Clerk provides administrative and clerical support for the Materials Department, including inventory control, shipping/receiving of products and materials, scheduling transportation for outbound shipments, parts packing, and distribution of materials to production departments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure shipments are properly loaded and meet all DOT and EPA requirements, including handling of hazardous waste
• Communicate with corporate transportation agents to maintain OTD and complete customer satisfaction
• Contact customers, carriers, and other outside businesses in a timely manner
• Recognize, recommend compliance procedures, and enforce safety and EPA issues
• Ensure all paperwork and related reports are completed accurately and in a timely manner
• Actively participate in Continuous Improvement activities, model Lean Manufacturing principles, and attend meetings as needed
• Audit all areas of responsibility to ensure procedures and processes are being followed
• Generate and distribute various reports
• Load and unload trailers
• Put inventory away using an RFI scanner
• Load trucks properly for return to the Plant or KCDC (must have knowledge of proper load/weight distribution)
• Boost product (use a torch to burn connectors on batteries required for boosting)
• Perform cycle counts of inventory in rack locations
• Manage and count inventory on the floor (pallets) for proper min/max ordering for restock

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• One to three years of shipping/receiving or related experience
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products
• Experience working with an ERP system
• Hazmat certification
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common technical manuals, safety rules, operating instructions, procedures, and purchase orders
• Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints
• Ability to calculate percentages and ratios; solve simple algebraic formulas
• Ability to define problems and draw valid conclusions on work to be performed
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Good organization, administrative, and time management skills
• Ability to work on multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• High energy, self-motivated, ability to be successful without direct instruction
• Regular attendance and timeliness required
• Occasionally required to vary schedule times and shifts

Physical demands

• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk and hear
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Ability to occasionally lift a minimum of 25 lbs. and 26 to 150 lbs. with assistance of equipment
• Regular use of safety glasses and steel-toed shoes
• Limited use of respirator
• Vision requirements: close vision

Work environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles
• Occasionally exposed to precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock
• Noise level ranges from minimal to loud
• Regularly works in a lead-contaminated area; must wear uniform and safety shoes in that area to prevent tracking or possible lead contamination of other clean areas or outside regulated areas