Shipping Clerk- All Shifts - TN Strut Plant

Ideal Tridon•Smyrna, TN

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Ideal Tridon Group is seeking Shipping Clerks on all shifts for their Smyrna, TN plant. This role is responsible for providing service to the manufacturing operation regarding the shipping of products to ensure quality of service and internal customer delivery expectations. The Shipping Clerk will coordinate team members to execute shipping/warehousing functions, including preparing, handling, organizing, loading, and unloading orders. They will verify paperwork, quantities, dimensions, and weights, secure loads, and ensure material handling aligns with documentation and instructions. The position requires observing all safety and operational procedures, maintaining paperwork and logs, and communicating with management for approvals. A sense of urgency, efficiency, safety compliance, and quality are paramount. The role involves making recommendations for improvements, maintaining a positive team environment, and possessing strong interpersonal and professional communication skills for internal and external interactions. This position requires teamwork and the ability to request assistance when handling heavier items, as pallets and skids may weigh up to 1500 lbs. Overtime and a flexible schedule, including reporting early, working late, and occasional weekends, may be required.

Requirements

Coordinates and sends shipments. Activities include checking the accuracy of the shipment, checking for quality issues, packing goods, populating paperwork, ensuring all required paperwork is provided as well as scheduling the pickup of shipments as necessary
Generates the required labels for each shipped parts or materials, making sure to include all the required information such as, sales order number, supplier, customer name, date packed and total of individual skids or boxes.
Reviews and assists the receiving clerk with the receiving paperwork to check the accuracy of the shipment coordinates the staging and loading of inbound and outbound shipments, takes pictures when necessary.
Works with other departments when detecting quality issues on shipments and coordinates the actions accordingly and as per procedure, completes proper documentation.
Utilizes UPS and FedEx shipping software’s to send small package and LTL shipments to customers locations as requested.
May operate a variety of machines and equipment including but not limited to forklift, standing stock picker, cart, hand trucks as well as the ability to cover other positions when needed.
Performs activities for training new employees, corrective action procedures with department employees.
Must be able to multitask and possess decision making skills for prioritizing of the workload.
Candidate must also be able to work from an elevated platform wearing designated safety equipment. Heights will vary but will not exceed 25’.
Coordinates and oversees activities to comply with 5’ S, safety, and other related company policies.
Reports and documents injury or other safety related incidence according to company policy.
Keeps communication lines open between Management and workers.

Nice To Haves

Associates Degree or BS highly desirable
Training in operating forklift, carts and handtruck is a plus.
Recent experience in inventory control, cycle counting, and researching root cause and making recommendations on how to solve and eliminate inventory errors desired.

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing service to the manufacturing operation regarding shipping of products to ensure quality of service, and internal customer delivery expectations consistent with company policy and performance standards.
Coordinates the tasks of team members to execute the functions of shipping/ warehousing by performing a combination of duties associated with, manually preparing, handling, organizing, loading, unloading of skids or packaged orders to be received and stocked.
Verifies paperwork including quantities, dimensions, weights.
Secures loads, distributes and assure that material handling is being done accordingly to the necessary documentation or instruction including but not limited to work order, shop prints, verbal instructions or other form of instruction.
Observing all safety and operational procedures, including maintaining all required paperwork, safety logs, preventive maintenance logs and checklist to meet quality, and delivery expectations.
The Shipping Operator must be decisive and possess the ability to choose an alternative course of action when necessary. Always maintaining communication with Operations Manager and/or Operations Supervisor for further approval.
A sense of urgency toward efficiency and delivery challenges, safety compliance and quality are paramount. The Shipping Operator should make recommendations to Operations Management for changes to working conditions and methods to improve efficiency while ensuring employee safety; must maintain a positive team environment within the work group.
This position requires strong interpersonal skills, professional communications both internally and externally working in a team environment with a diverse group of associates, customers, and suppliers.
The Shipping Operator must require help from coworkers when handling heavier items since pallets and skids may weigh up to 1500 lbs.
Job may require overtime and a flexible schedule, reporting early and working late including weekends from time to time.