Expediter

Lamsco West•Santa Clarita, CA

About The Position

The Expediter interfaces with outside vendors to schedule and expedite outside processing jobs and helps provide online job status for major customers. The role responds to customer needs by checking job status and helping resolve customer complaints, regularly checks the hot sheet, and follows up on priority jobs. It locates Purchase Order Changes on the floor and expedites orders by locating Manufacturing Plans in Engineering or Customer Service as needed. The Expediter updates and reprioritizes Manufacturing Plans by locating plans, re-stamping them, and finding material for jobs that could not initially be located. The position helps oversee day-to-day warehouse activities and provides backup warehouse support, including issuing and pulling stock, receiving remnants, overruns, and make stocks, and performing cycle counts. It issues requisitions to fill warehouse min-max levels and creates requests for needed material. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Any combination of education and experience that provides the skills and knowledge needed for successful job performance will be considered.
Typical qualifications include two to three years of stockroom experience.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
Ability to work effectively with customers and employees at all levels and across departments, including handling irate customers or employees effectively.
Strong math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, to calculate how many parts can be manufactured from a sheet of material.
Ability to function in high-pressure situations.
Ability to learn quickly and retain knowledge to continually revise and update priorities based on production status.
Manual dexterity to operate a forklift, pallet jack, dolly, and 10-key.
Correctable vision and hearing.
Ability to stand, walk, stoop, bend, twist, and lift up to 50 pounds.
Ability to maneuver through a 33,000-square-foot, ground-level, single-story manufacturing facility.

Nice To Haves

Previous forklift experience is preferred.
Previous computer data-entry experience is preferred.
Some knowledge of raw materials is preferred.
High school diploma or GED is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Interface with outside vendors to schedule and expedite outside processing jobs.
Help provide online job status for major customers.
Check job status in response to customer needs and help resolve customer complaints.
Check the hot sheet on a continuing basis and follow up on priority jobs.
Locate Purchase Order Changes on the floor.
Expedite floor orders and locate Manufacturing Plans in Engineering or Customer Service to follow up on job status.
Update and reprioritize Manufacturing Plans by locating and re-stamping plans and finding material for jobs that could not initially be located.
Help oversee day-to-day warehouse activities.
Provide backup warehouse support, including issuing and pulling stock, receiving remnants, overruns, and make stocks, and performing cycle counts.
Issue material requisitions to fill warehouse min-max levels and create material requests for needed material.
Perform additional duties as assigned.