Shipping Working Foreman
Alpha Baking Co., Inc. · Chicago, IL · 3 wk ago
ManagementFull-time
About the role
You will work in a fast-paced environment preparing items for shipment.
Responsibilities
- Oversee general shipping activities and lead shipping staff
- Maintain the shipping department
- Load and unload trucks
- Physically move bread/bun stacks to the shipping dock using a two-wheel cart to stage product
- Break down stacks of product for depot locations with repetitive use of upper extremities
- Shuttle bread trays and materials to the staging area
- Unload semi-trailers and route incoming shipments
- Reject damaged items, record shortages, and correspond with shippers to rectify damages and shortages
- Load cased bread/bun products onto pallets
- Operate an electric pallet jack to move or hoist materials from packaging to the shipping dock
- Operate a stretch wrap bander to palletize bread/bun products for shipment
- Perform computer functions to track various aspects of goods
- Work efficiently within a busy dispatch department
- Create shipping labels and handle shipping information
- Collaborate with the shipping team to complete orders in a timely manner