Freight Department Lead

Shift: 1st Monday to Thursday; 6:00 am to 4:30pm (OT on Friday)
Pay: $19 per hour or more, depending on experience

Hiring Immediately!

Our Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Life Insurance
• Short term disability
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Account

We heard you knock!

At Masonite, we understand that people are key. In fact, it’s one of our Cultural Pillars. We are a composite of diverse people who come together by showing support and respect to one another. We hold the door open for each other and for new ideas. We continuously strive to improve both our products and our customers’ experiences. This drive leads us to revolutionize the door industry and help people walk through walls. Join us and make an impact each day you work at Masonite!

About our Endura Products Division

We are excited to welcome Endura to the Masonite family in 2023. The company is a leading innovator and manufacturer of high-performance door frames and door system components, operating out of four facilities in NC, TX and OR.

Overview

The primary purpose of this position is to effectively coordinate the shipment of finished goods to our customer base in a timely and accurate manner. This position should ensure that all procedures and quality checks are performed on completed orders before shipment.

Responsibilities

• Must have a complete knowledge of all sill components.
• Learn understand and work with IT to resolve issues with freight scanning and camera system.
• Ensure that freight operators are working safely by constant follow-up, enforcing safety rules and providing training where appropriate. Must maintain strict enforcement of rotation.
• Check material and packaging for proper quality ensuring that no freight leaves the dock that is not in good condition.
• Develop standard work as needed for updated procedures.
• Ensure that all freight procedures for the staging of freight, the scanning of completed orders, and the loading of completed orders are followed.
• Identify causes of downtime and bottleneck causing loss of production by keeping material staged, maintenance on equipment, and personnel placement.
• Exercise excellent housekeeping and organizational habits.
• Maintain excellent attendance.
• Complete enforcement of all policies and procedures for the issuing of packing list to accompany all completed orders.
• Complete enforcement of all trailer counts and policies and procedures as they relate to the loading of all TL and LTL shipments. Minimizing the OS&D issues.
• Work effectively with all supervisors, lead coordinators, and material handlers to resolve production problems.
• Provide excellent communication to other plants and departments when coordinating orders and materials.
• Communicate to Production control when orders that are past performance dates do not ship
• Provide excellent training of new employees in all areas of the Freight Department to include staging, prepping, scanning, and material handling and shipping.
• Back up duties include the packing coordinator and the packing cell lead duties.
• Handle all communication for invoicing questions and ensure that the proper paperwork is generated and sent for invoicing each day.
• Maintain at least 3 months of paperwork to ensure that orders may easily be tracked.
• Complete computer knowledge of the ship list, performance date issues, and other daily functions that apply to the communication of all orders within the shipping freight area.
• Provide good direction to employees assigned to this area, freight material handlers and clerk.
• Display independent decision making and demonstrate leadership abilities and professional courtesy.
• Excellent decision-making while being highly productive under little supervision.

Requirements:

• Have the ability to read a tape measure, caliper and any other measurement tool.
• Lift 50lbs.
• Knowledge of hand tools
• Reliable attendance
• Basic writing and math skills
• Basic computer skills

Education & Experience:

• A High School Diploma or GED certificate
• One year of prior manufacturing experience preferred but NOT required
• Set up and operate production machinery

Safe Production:
Masonite strives to maintain a target 0% safety incident rate. Safe production weaves worker safety with efficient production into our daily operations. We keep safety at utmost importance and want our employees to go home in the same condition as they arrived at work.

We Help People Walk Through Walls

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• Night shift

Weekly day range:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person