Shipping-Receiving Associate

Graphic Packaging Careers•Elk Grove Township, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Graphic Packaging International produces paper-based packaging for various consumer goods. They are a large manufacturer with a global presence, committed to environmental responsibility, diversity, and offering competitive compensation and benefits. This role is responsible for shipping, receiving, coordinating traffic, warehousing inventories, communications, and producing product related to plant and warehouse operations.

Requirements

Manufacturing experience preferred
Must have physical coordination to operate forklift.
Use of Machines, Tools, Equipment, Software: Forklifts, Radio and Communication devices, Bar code reader, E-Mail communications, SAP, PEAK, Phone-Two-way communications, Fax
Know, understand and pass all needed skill level matrix
Know and understand SAP application in regard to inventory, production and shipments.
Know and understand all shipping protocol and procedures.
Must have reasoning ability to identify alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
English speaking, reading and writing skills and comprehension
The knowledge and understanding of meeting both internal and external customer needs.
Servicing the customers and vendors in a professional manner while supplying prompt delivery and receiving of products to and from the facility.

Responsibilities

Spend approximately 70% of working shift on a forklift and 30% doing other shipping duties.
Know, understand and follow all plant and department safety requirements.
Maintain a safe and clean environment inside and outside of the facility.
Maintain equipment and do all required safety checks and cleanings as required.
Wrap loads and ensure quality standards and checks are being completed, ensuring packing, wrapping, labeling and information is correct on outbound shipment of product.
Ship and receive all product in and out of the plant location.
Ensure all manifests, invoices, orders, shipping documentation, and forms are accurate.
Examine documents to insure outbound and incoming contents are accurate with paperwork of the shipment.
Prepare documents such as work orders, bills of ladings, packing slips and shipping orders.
Shuttle product from the facility to outside warehousing as needed with accurate billing and documentation for accurate inventories.
Record shipping data such as damages, rejected trailers, discrepancies for reporting, accounting and recordkeeping purposes.
Determine shipping methods and procedures for safe shipment based on the material using shipping knowledge and procedures.
Deliver or rout incoming material or equipment to the appropriate departments.
Confer and correspond with representatives to rectify problems such as shortage of material, late trucks, quality issues and nonconformance to specifications.
Communicate with Supervisors, Peers and Subordinates to ensure all issues are communicated properly.
Store, maintain and monitor shipping materials and supplies used for shipping.
Contact corporate shipping (TMS) or supervision when needed to ensure scheduled inbound and outbound reach their destinations as scheduled to meet the needs of the customer and our facilities.
Compute weights and pallet amounts to ensure trailers are loaded properly and not detained over the road.
Load product on shipments and shuttles to ensure scheduled load times are being met by our facility and the warehouse along with scheduled delivery time of product.
Process customer returns and validate all incoming product.
Use, know and understand all computer programs and technical skills used at the facility in the shipping and inventory function.
Pull PO from file, sign and verify physical delivery of goods.
Pull packing slip from goods and validate receipt.
Audit packing slip against PO to determine if delivery received is complete.
Receive goods into SAP workflows and review PO’s that require revising.
Unpack deliveries; verify product received against PO item and quantity. Receive items in SAP. Pull PO (or reprint) and assemble w/packing slip for GR for 3-way filing.
Process chemical deliveries consistent with established protocol.
Act as the backup for all plant subcontracting.
Backfill material handler position (breaks, lunches, vacations etc.).
Follow all Plant rules, Processes, Hygiene, and Allergens procedures, related to production of Safe Quality Foods.
Report to person of authority to record any potentially unsafe conditions which may result in unsafe foods or noncompliance to SQF related procedures.
Participate in SQF Root Cause and Corrective Actions (from customer complaints, SQF audits, validation, and verification activities) as required.
Follow all procedures related to producing Safe Quality Foods (SQF).
Report any potentially unsafe SQF conditions or customer complaints to a person of authority to record and/or correct the situation.