Reports To: Production Manager
Employment Status: Full time,
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Position Summary:
The Shipping Clerk is responsible to assist with carrying out day-to-day operations for the Shipping department. To ensure established objectives for shipping, delivery, and timeliness are met or exceeded. To assist with paperwork and load planning both internal and external.
Essential Functions:
- Effective coordination and communications with customer service, plant management, 3rd party drivers and internal warehouse personnel.
- Receive, review and assign truck appointments, prepare outbound loads
- Accurately prepare and maintain all paperwork for shipping, using the load planner
- Accurately and efficiently prepare all truck load and LTL shipment paperwork
- Complete load requests
- Process shipped loads accurately and timely
- All other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of shipping / receiving clerk experience
- Attention to detail for accurate documentation and timely reporting of all information
- Ability to work independently and in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to adapt
- Maintain professional relationship with customers, both internal and external
- Assist truckers and freight services loading and unloading and with paperwork
- Strong computer skills
- Basic reading, writing and mathematical skills
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs
- Ability to understand and meet ISO, AIB, and GPM standards
- Must have excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be a self-starter
- Forklift experience is a plus
Education: High school diploma or GED equivalent
Work Environment: This position is routinely required to work in an environment that produces a loud amount of noise.
Physical Demands:
This position is required to stand and walk up to 1/3 or the time. This position is required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or touch and will verbally communicate and hear more than 2/3 of the time. This position does require the individual to lift up to 50 lbs occasionally. Close and color vision, as well as the ability to adjust focus are required to perform this position.
The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.