Shipping Operator

Campbell Fittings, part of the Ideal Tridon Group, is a leader in engineering and manufacturing hose fittings, couplings, ferrules, and sleeves. The company collaborates with industry experts to advance products, ensuring safety and efficiency for applications ranging from air to petro‑chemical.

Responsibilities

• Provide service to the manufacturing operation regarding shipping of products to ensure quality of service and internal customer delivery expectations consistent with company policy and performance standards.
• Coordinate tasks of team members to execute shipping/warehousing functions by manually preparing, handling, organizing, loading, and unloading skids or packaged orders to be received and stocked.
• Verify paperwork including quantities, dimensions, and weights.
• Secure loads, distribute, and assure material handling is performed according to documentation or instructions such as work orders, shop prints, verbal directions, etc.
• Generate required labels for each shipped part or material, including sales order number, supplier, customer name, date packed, and totals for individual skids or boxes.
• Observe all safety and operational procedures, maintaining required paperwork, safety logs, preventive maintenance logs, and checklists to meet quality and delivery expectations.
• Maintain communication with the Operations Manager and/or Operations Supervisor for approvals; be decisive and choose alternative actions when necessary.
• Maintain a sense of urgency toward efficiency, delivery challenges, safety compliance, and quality; recommend changes to improve efficiency while ensuring employee safety and foster a positive team environment.
• Maintain and update documentation such as production, scrap, downtime reports, production board, and quality and safety logs.
• Implement and maintain 5S practices in the work area, including equipment, according to company procedures.
• May require overtime and a flexible schedule, including early reporting, late work, and occasional weekends.
• Follow all established safety rules and procedures, wearing required PPE (mandatory: covered toe shoes; optional: safety glasses, steel‑toe shoes, gloves, hearing protection).
• Report defective materials and unsafe conditions to the Production Supervisor or Operations Manager.
• Perform other related or additional duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, including active listening.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues efficiently and ask for help when needed.
• Proficient computer skills with the ability to learn new software.
• Ability to interpret shipping documents and understand instructions and work directions.
• Comfortable and efficient in a busy open‑floor environment.
• Ability to work both in a team setting and independently.
• Strong multitasking and decision‑making skills for prioritizing workload.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of shipping experience in a warehouse/manufacturing environment (highly preferred).
• Forklift certification is a plus.
• Experience with inventory control, cycle counting, root‑cause analysis, and recommending solutions to eliminate inventory errors (desired).
• Experience using scan guns for shipping, inventory put‑away, picking, and cycle counting (desired).

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of standing throughout the shift.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 70 lb as needed.
• Ability to bend and twist throughout the shift.
• May require assistance from coworkers when handling heavy pallets and skids weighing up to 1,500 lb.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company‑paid short‑term and long‑term disability insurance.
• Company‑paid basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Generous paid time off (PTO).
• Company‑paid holidays.

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 7:30 am – 4:00 pm (with occasional overtime, early reporting, late work, and weekends as needed).