Shipping/Receiving Operator

• Ensures inventory accuracy for raw materials under position’s control.
• Understands shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, miscellaneous shippers and other records to determine shipping priorities, work assignments, and shipping methods required to meet shipping and receiving schedules.
• Requires knowledge of domestic and international shipping and use of online shipping methods.
• Ensures compliance with all DOT regulations. 
• Correctly classify and label hazardous material shipments
• Ensures compliance with all import and export government rules and regulations. Submit export paperwork to freight forwarders.
• Determines space requirements and position of shipment in trucks and lays out position of shipment.
• Determines routing and legal load limits of trucks, according to established schedules and weight limits of states. Schedules customer funded trucks. Schedules expedited shipments as required.
• Inspects loading operations to ensure compliance with shipping specifications, and seals loaded truck doors.
• Inspects material handling equipment for defects and notifies maintenance personnel or contacts outside service facility for repair.
• Maintains vehicle maintenance report.
• Directs movement of shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage and work areas
• Maintains inventory of all shipping supplies, including boxes, packing material, tape labels and any special supplies
• Develops and recommends annual budget requirements for the Warehouse and Receiving Department. Anticipate and request funding for future personnel requirements. Anticipate and request funding for future material handling equipment.
• Establishes project plans and coordinates activities for continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of shipping notices, bill of lading, invoices. Knowledge of government import – export rules and regulations. 
• Reads and interprets documents such as EHS policies, operating and maintenance instructions, and activity instructions. Writes routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Ability to prepare and recommend departmental budget requirements. Ability to use excel spreadsheets to prepare reports to management. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Solves practical problems. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.  Must be able to use independent judgment.​​​​​​