Shipping Clerk- 3rd Shift

Ideal Tridon • Smyrna, TN

3h • Onsite

About The Position

The Ideal Tridon Group is seeking Shipping Clerks on 3rd shift for their Smyrna TN plant. The role is 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. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, professional communications both internally and externally, and the ability to work in a team environment with a diverse group of associates, customers, and suppliers. 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 and maintaining a positive team environment.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required
• Associates Degree or BS highly desirable or 2 to 3 years of related inventory and shipping experience or equivalent.
• 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.
• Must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation as you will frequently and repetitively be required to bend, twist, kneel, crouch, and reach to perform work, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk and hear.
• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk and/or sit and reach with hands and arms.
• May occasionally climb stairs, drive vehicles, and operate equipment.
• Lift or carry materials weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Must wear required hearing and/or eye protection.

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.
• 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.
• Performs additional duties not specifically describe herein.

Benefits

• We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED