Shipping & Receiving Specialist

Description

• Operates lift trucks or hand trucks to convey, move or hoist materials to proper departments or areas.
• Complete daily preventative maintenance for lift trucks.
• Contact common carriers and schedule pick-ups, ensuring it meets customer delivery requirements. 
• Pick orders from stock or from staging area. 
• Prepare product for shipping to customers. 
• Ensure customer order and products match; box, crate, wrap as necessary. 
• Load trucks with outgoing products and unload trucks with incoming materials.
• Inspect materials and ensure bills of lading are correct. 
• Communicates issues to the reporting Supervisor.
• Verify the quantity and quality of material received. 
• Place incoming materials into storage. 
• Pull materials from storage and deliver to production as needed. 
• Operate a bander to band boxes to be shipped. 
• Affix completed address label and any other special labels required for the handling of material and specified by the carrier. 
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork. 
• Maintain departmental housekeeping standards. 
• Process recycled products. 

Requirements

Education and/or Experience 

Requires education generally equivalent to a high school diploma and one to three months related experience to become familiar with equipment and processes. 

Language Skills 

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills 

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. 

Reasoning Ability 

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. 

Other Qualifications

Requires the ability to operate various tools and equipment to include a computer, and various small hand tools. Requires the ability to pass forklift operator course and drive equipment.

Physical Demands 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls; reach above shoulders; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and use foot/feet to operate machine. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 70 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.