Shipping and Receiving Lead

Parallel Employment Group is looking for a Shipping and Receiving Lead to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the daily shipping and receiving operations, ensuring efficient workflow, accuracy, and organization within the warehouse. Your leadership will play a crucial role in training team members and maintaining high standards of safety and quality.

3rd shift: 10:00 pm -6:00 am

Job Location: Franksville, WI

Job Type: temp-to-hire

Salary: $25 per hour

Key Responsibilities:

• Never let production stop due to unfed lines
• Never let production stop due to backed up scrap system
• Never let production stop due to backed up mainline
• Production should never stop as a direct result of the action/ or inaction of the shipping and receiving department.  This is the priority #1 of all employees in the shipping and receiving department.
• Efficiently stock production infeed lines
• Keep take off lines clear to ensure no back-ups on the mainline
• Load all morning LTL and MTL trailers
• Plan and load needed transfers
• Take out dock appointment print outs to the receiving desk
• Complete all needed ASN’s
• Find missing or questionable units
• Clear staging
• Make needed moves in the yard in and out.  Moving out trailers in shipping and receiving to ensure a smooth transition from 1st to 2nd shift.
• Complete daily inventories/ cycle counts
• Unload trailers
• Investigating tagging and loading issues.

Quality

Your position is our last line of defense for all trailers leaving during your shift.  If there are mistakes and you don’t catch them, the customer will.  You also have more freedom to catch mistakes from production and fellow truckers.

• Verify all trailers that are going out in the AM for load accuracy and the load being secured.
• Find and separate questionable loads that need to be reworked, re-unitized and/or re-banded.
• Consolidate like items into 1 bin.
• Do an aged inventory report and separate units that are over 180 days old into their own location.
• Fix leaning stacks (safety and quality).
• Receive in transit farm outs and complete the operation by clearing outside warehouse staging.
• Record mistakes found and research on who was the responsible individual so we can address mistakes daily. Work closely with other shift leads to communicate issues that come up and training in areas needed to prevent those issues from repeating.

• High school diploma or equivalent; bachelor’s degree preferred.

• At least 2 years of experience in shipping and receiving, with a focus on leadership or team lead roles.
• Strong understanding of warehouse management systems and procedures.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team effectively.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software tools.
• Ability to lift heavy objects, up to 50 lbs, and perform physical tasks as needed.

We are an equal opportunity employer

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