Shipping Coordinator
About The Position
The Shipping Coordinator plays a vital role in ensuring daily operational excellence, safety compliance, and seamless workflow management within the shipping department. This position is responsible for processing shipping and receiving transactions, coordinating interplant transfers, and accurately scheduling ship dates based on production and inventory data. A key focus is collaborating across internal teams—including Production, Traffic, Sales, and Operations—to optimize shipping capacity, resolve order issues, and maintain clear communication regarding delivery status. The ideal candidate brings strong attention to detail, excellent multitasking skills, and a continuous improvement mindset to drive departmental efficiency.
Requirements
- High school or GED required.
- Prior experience in shipping, logistics, or manufacturing operations.
- Demonstrated success collaborating with other departments, ex production, traffic, and sales departments
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage deadlines and shifting priorities
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency with ERP or shipping systems.
- Proven tracking of managing logistics documentation and transaction accuracy.
- Familiarity with OSHA requirements and environmental regulations.
- Effective communication and coordination skills
Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with all company safety policies.
- Maintain adherence to OSHA requirements.
- Follow all environmental regulations.
- Ensure shipping documentation is accurate and complete.
- Support compliance with shipping procedures and internal controls.
- Determine order ship dates based on production schedules.
- Coordinate ship dates based on inventory availability.
- Communicate shipping status, delays, and changes with internal departments.
- Process plant backorders efficiently.
- Coordinate back-order resolution with Sales and Operations teams.
- Process daily shipping, receiving, and interplant transfer transactions.
- Oversee daily shipping, receiving, and interplant transfer transactions.
- Actively participate in identifying operational improvements.
- Implement improvements to drive departmental efficiency.
- Manage shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
- Maintain high transactional accuracy across all shipping records.
- Ensure close attention to detail in tracking goods.
- Utilize ERP or shipping systems to manage logistics data.
- Review shipping capacity with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Production and Traffic teams to ensure shipping efficiency.
- Support planning efforts to balance workload.
- Partner across departments to meet delivery timelines.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
