Shipping Coordinator - 1st Shift
About The Position
Aluminum Precision Products (APP) is seeking a Shipping Coordinator responsible for verifying and maintaining records of incoming and outgoing shipments to ensure accuracy. This role involves creating shipping lists, logs, scheduling and tracking pickups, ensuring correct packing to prevent damage, and adhering to customer specifications for outgoing shipments. The position also includes receiving and confirming inbound shipments, preparing documentation for international export, assisting with vendor NAFTA solicitation, and preparing free-trade agreements for customers. Data entry duties encompass order processing, generating packing lists, invoices, and shipping documents. The role requires regular correspondence via telephone and email, distributing receiving documents, locating inventory, operating a fork truck, printing pick tickets, efficient picking of inventory, cycle counting, reconciling inventory discrepancies, quarantining defective parts, and maintaining customer bar coding requirements. The Shipping Coordinator will also answer customer inquiries.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- 6 months – 1 year experience with order entry, shipping, warehousing procedures, and shipping parts for aerospace, aviation, or automotive industries.
- Forklift certificate.
- Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet.
- Working knowledge of UPS, FedEx, and other common carriers and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of BOLs and shipping carriers (i.e. freight brokers, FedEx, UPS, etc.).
- In compliance with ITAR regulations, must be a US Citizen or US Person (U.S. Person = a natural person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).
Nice To Haves
- International shipping experience highly desired.
- Forging manufacturing experience highly desired.
Responsibilities
- Verifying and keeping records on incoming and outgoing shipments.
- Creating shipping lists and scheduling truck pickups via UPS, FedEx, and Common Carrier.
- Completing shipping logs daily and verifying delivered items against the packing slip.
- Receiving and confirming inbound shipments to APP, Inc.
- Preparing documentation for international export shipments.
- Assisting with annual vendor NAFTA solicitation process.
- Preparing free-trade agreements for customers.
- Data entry duties include order processing, generating packing lists, invoices, and shipping documents.
- Regular correspondence by telephone and email to internal personnel, customers and vendors.
- Distributing receiving documents to accounting and purchasing.
- Locating inventory items in stockroom and delivering non-inventory items.
- Operating fork truck.
- Printing pick tickets and picking inventory efficiently to maintain on-time shipments.
- Cycle counting and reconciling inventory discrepancies.
- Quarantining defective parts and working with Quality/Production to repair or scrap parts.
- Maintaining customer bar coding requirements.
- Answering customer inquiries.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision – Generous company contribution, low cost to employee
- Life insurance – 100% company paid - covers employee, spouse and dependent children
- Generous Vacation Time
- 9 Paid Holidays
- Holiday Shut Down (Christmas thru New Year’s)
- Sick Time
- Annual Bonus (based on company meeting Key Results)
- 401k (Company matches up to 4%)
- ESOP Employee Profit Sharing Retirement Plan (100% Company Paid)
- Tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
