Shipping Department - Operations Assistant - 1st Shift

The AMES Companies, Inc.•Dickinson Township, PA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Our Shipping Department - Operations Assistant plans and coordinates Outbound shipments to customers. Waving orders, building shipments, routing TL/LTL shipments to carriers, scheduling pick up appointments, and meeting customer required shipment dates.

Requirements

1-year related experience and/or training; knowledge of order processing systems, WMS systems, and Microsoft office.
High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
Able to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Responsibilities

Responsible for building and routing shipments with special attention given to customer specific requirements.
Responsible for coordinating carrier pick up appointments according to customer/carrier required shipment dates.
Monitor Outbound shipments to ensure timely carrier pick up and communicate to customer service/sales teams accordingly.
Collaborate with internal and external customers regarding Customer order status and or new shipment requests.
Maintain and store all required documents.
Update best practice documents, relative to assigned customer accounts.
Assist in other logistical processes per business necessity.
Follows all policies and procedures, best practices.
Other duties as assigned.