Distribution Shipping Associate - UltraSite

What you'll do in this role:

The Distribution Shipper builds healthy communities through play and recreation by ensuring products are accurately handling the transportation needs of the business (domestic and/or international). This role will be in daily communication with team members and/or other transportation partners regarding problem resolution, scheduling, and information retrieval. Shipping hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30, the candidate will need to work these hours and be available to work overtime as required.

Safety:

• Comply with all safety requirements and maintain a strong safety culture. Must have a safety-first mentality through proactively speaking up about concerns, following PPE requirements and setting an example for others to follow.
• Use caution when driving the forklift and follow all rules from training.
• Maintains the work area and equipment in accordance with 5S requirements for cleanliness.

Quality:

• Inspect materials and ensure bills of ladings are correct.
• Verify the quantity and quality of material picked and packed.
• Verify proper quantity of pallets are loaded on the proper carrier trucks.
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork.
• Set an example for team members of commitment, application of skill, work ethics and habits and personal character.

Delivery:

• Load trucks with outgoing products and unload trucks with incoming materials
• Affix completed address labels, and any other special labels required for the handling of material and specified by the carrier
• Place incoming materials into storage
• Create customer chip samples.
• Be willing to flex to other warehouse position as required by workload including...
  
  
  
  1. Fedex and UPS shipments daily
  2. Pick orders from stock.
  3. Prepare products for shipping to customers.
  4. Ensure customer order and product matches: box, crate, shrink-wrap as necessary
  5. Operate various machines to include wrapper, bander, hand tools, forklift, various hand and power tools, etc.
  6. Contact common carriers and schedule pick-ups, ensuring the meeting of customer delivery requirements
  7. Creates BOL's and contact carriers to comply with customers' requirements.
  8. Ability to call in Trucks and make BOL's. Ability to run orders in the portals.
  9. Ability to Run prepaids
  
  
  
  

Cost:

• Completes daily entries in hour by hour and other data collection as required
• Identify and implement improvements in coordination with continuous improvement.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

What will put you ahead:

• High School diploma or equivalent is desired.
• 1 to 3 years of general shipping & warehouse is desired.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a wide variety of Company personnel and others.
• Requires the ability to operate various hand and power tools.
• Requires the ability to pass forklift operator course and drive a forklift.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Looking for a strong safety minded, enthusiastic person with can do attitude. Strong attention to detail with excellent problem-solving ability. Must have excellent work ethic with strong communication skills to engage with both the customer and internal teams.

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Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle or touch objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; reach above the shoulders; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
• Required to wear the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to include eye protection, and steel toe shoes.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) while in the manufacturing environment such as steel toe shoes, eye protection. The employee may occasionally work in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate to loud, and hearing protection is required in specific areas of the facility.

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