Shipper Expeditor na Northwest Hardwoods, Inc
Northwest Hardwoods, Inc · Byron Center, Estados Unidos Da América · Onsite
- Professional
- Escritório em Byron Center
Northwest Hardwoods, Inc
Byron Center, MI
Shipping Expeditor
Shift: Days
Pay Range: $23.50 to $25.50
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Always maintain the highest standards with respect to safety, leading by example and ensuring team members follow all policies, procedures, practices and regulations.
- Actively lead and participate in the plant safety program including implementing, and enforcing safety policies, procedures, practices and projects.
- Ensuring accurate records of inventory, coordinating stock levels, and managing inventory counts.
- Overseeing the timely and accurate shipment of goods, coordinating with transportation providers, and ensuring compliance with shipping regulations.
- Inspecting outgoing shipments for accuracy, condition, and quality, and addressing any discrepancies.
- Maintaining detailed records of shipments, and finished goods inventory levels, and generating reports for management.
- Analyzes issues and develops solutions. Recommends and implements measures to improve methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
- Meets with management to discuss current issues, production goals, and quality control standards, and to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products ordered.
- Coordinate maintenance activities with the maintenance team.
- Communicates company goals and policies to all team members and coaches them towards achievement of the goals.
- Confers with other team members to discuss progress towards production and quality goals.
- Participates in investigation and corrective action processes.
- Assists with training new workers and ensure all members of the team follow company policies and safety regulations.
- Manage and assist with auditing the quarterly grade out QC process.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Ability to stay late as required to continue loading trucks.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent; additional education or certifications in logistics, warehouse management, or a related field is a plus.
- Proven experience in shipping operations, preferably within the lumber or building materials industry.
- Proficiency in inventory management software and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Must be able to drive a Hi-Low
Competencies:
- Must follow all established safety policies. Must have good safety record and a positive, can-do attitude.
- Be adaptable, work where needed as required.
- Willing to ask questions and work closely with Site Manager.
- Must be able to work any shift -- overtime, weekends, holidays as required and in all conditions.
- Capable of completing required documentation.
- Able to work as a team, get along with team members; give and take advice and criticism from other team members.
- Strong leader with examples of improving performance and cost savings.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
- Ability to take initiative on continuous improvement processes and find creative resolutions by identifying opportunities and boldly offering solutions.
- Ability to effectively work, communicate, and coordinate activities within all levels of the organization. Excellent planning, organizing, prioritizing, time management and delegation skills.
Physical Requirements
- While performing the duties of this job, the team member is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear.
- The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- While performing the duties of this job, the team member is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
- This job may require the following equipment when in the field eye protection, hearing protection, leather/rubber gloves, safety shoes, sleeve protection, safety vest, and a hard hat.