Shipping Clerk-3rd Shift

About the role

Plan loads to customers based on order quantities; combine them to make multiple-stop deliveries to maximize trailer utilization and minimize costs.

Responsibilities

• Set up delivery appointments for loads planned
• Set up customer pick-ups
• Cut bills for all loads
• Communicate with logistics all outbound loads and delivery times
• Must be qualified to properly operate the forklift
• Additional duties as assigned

Requirements

Language Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Able to read and interpret documents such as sales reports, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, training and procedure manuals
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or graphic form
• Ability to solve a variety of problems and deal with situations where limited information or standardization exists

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide in all units of measure
• Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, costs, proportions, and volumes

Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of computer data entry
• Understanding of quality standards – both ISO and QS
• Knowledge of office equipment and its efficient operation
• Awareness of regulatory requirements including wage and hour, environmental and waste minimization, company policies, and personnel requirements such as OSHA, DEQ, and EEO

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear
• Sometimes required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving equipment in the work area
• Sometimes exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, along with hot and cold temperatures depending upon the season
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Preferred: Microsoft Excel experience
• Preferred: Prior work experience in the corrugated industry
• Preferred: Prior work experience as a forklift operator