About This Role
The Shipping and Receiving Clerk plays a crucial role in managing incoming and outgoing shipments, ensuring accuracy and compliance with safety standards. This position is ideal for candidates who are detail-oriented and can work effectively in a team environment.
Responsibilities
- Obtain job assignments from supervisor or leads.
- Work safely under functional safety guidelines such as PPE and equipment interaction.
- Perform daily housekeeping/6S activities as required.
- Practice and follow all safety policies and procedures.
- Compare identifying information and counts, weighs or measures items of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records both Domestic and International.
- Affix shipping labels on packed cartons or stencil identifying shipping information on cartons.
- Assemble wooden or cardboard containers or select pre-assembled containers.
- Place items into containers.
- Nail covers on wooden crates and bind containers with metal tape.
- Stamp, stencil or glue identifying information and shipping instructions onto crates or containers.
- Unpack and examine incoming shipments, reject damaged items, record shortages and correspond with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
- Operate forklift or use hand truck to move, convey, or hoist shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage or work area.
- Perform daily vehicle inspections.
- Read shipping order to determine quantity.
- Adhere to quality processes including in-process inspection to ensure compliance with quality specifications.
- Perform clerical tasks including input into the computer.
- Unpack incoming shipments.
- Count articles in shipment.
- Examine shipments for defects and shortages.
- Attach identification data onto articles.
- Compare information on requisitions, invoices and packing lists to material received or issued to verify accuracy of order.
- Safely load and unload material onto truck.
- Observe loading of conveyance to determine conformance to loading patterns and prevent shifting or damage to materials of products during transit.
- Verify materials loaded or unloaded against the bill of lading.
- Saw materials to size.
- Assemble materials.
- Bolt heavy pieces to bottom of container or skid.
- Wrap and pad product with excelsior, paper or other packing material.
- Nail cover on crate.
- Wrap and tighten metal bands around crate.
- Repair broken crates.
- Count items to be packed to ensure compliance with shipping orders.
