Shipping Tech Coordinator

Department: Materials Handling • Reports to: Warehouse Supervisor • FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

About the role

Performs all duties to ship finished product to customers on time. Responsible for shipping various items to vendors/customers for the Technical group. Maintains accurate shipping records by verifying information, counts, weights, and other measures against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records. Performs packaging duties in accordance with established packaging standards. Steps in as acting authority for Warehouse Supervisor except for payroll or other human resource responsibilities. Maintains accurate inventory counts on all finished products and components in inventory location 0001 warehouse in the main facility. Performs material handling duties including picking material for manufacturing jobs, recording material shortages, and delivering picked material to the manufacturing floor.

Responsibilities

• Shipping
  • Interfaces with Customer Service to ensure on-time delivery and method of shipment for production and product development material.
  • Completes and controls the flow of paperwork for all shipping transactions.
  • Prepares material and products for shipment per procedures or direct instructions from the responsible shipping party.
  • Affixes shipping labels or stencils identifying shipping information on boxes or cartons.
  • Assembles multiple cartons on skids per procedures and covers with "good wrap" or binding as required.
  • Prepares all shipping papers with determined weights for skids or packages.
  • Schedules carriers and determines the most economic method of shipment.
  • Advises warehouse personnel on the proper way to package skids.
  • Uses various packaging equipment such as wrapping, banding, weighing, and container “filler material” machines/dispensers.
  • Operates NCFI foam packaging equipment.
  • Operates office equipment to produce shipping documents, including the FEDEX Powership system.
• Cycle Counting
  • Creates a Vantage physical inventory document daily to begin the cycle counting procedure.
  • Prints the Vantage inventory document and performs cycle counting on predetermined components and/or finished products.
  • Investigates and resolves large count variances between current on-hand balance and physical counts, reporting discrepancies to the immediate supervisor.
  • Uses various transaction codes and their functions.
• Material Handling
  • Receives work order requests from the manufacturing supervisor and pulls component material required for the job.
  • Delivers material to the appropriate manufacturing cell and coordinates priority with the manufacturing supervisor.
  • Performs Vantage transactions to issue material toward the job and resolves discrepancies concerning materials issued.
  • Operates equipment such as pallet stacker, tow motor, and pallet truck.
  • Maintains the ready use of the pallet stacker by keeping equipment charged.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED and two to five years’ experience in a shipping department.
• Knowledge of shipping/receiving equipment such as foam packaging dispenser, stenciling machines, weight scales, banding machines, and other small tools.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and write simple instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Experience with creating packing lists, various movement transactions, and posting goods issue of materials shipped.
• Mathematical ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license, forklift, and pallet stacker license.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, bend, and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 70 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.