Shipping Specialist

If you like to keep busy, move around, and have a variety of tasks, this is the job for you!

What to like about this position

• Unique challenges and problems to solve
• Willing to train an applicant without shipping experience
• Work with an awesome team of people who are invested in each other's success

The Shipping Specialist has a critical role in our business in ensuring customer orders are shipped accurately and on time. You are the last person at Trico to handle a customer’s order, so you will leave an impression on every shipment that leaves our facility.

Primary Job Duties

• Accurately and safely pick parts for customer orders from stock
• Safely operate material handling equipment, such as pallet jack, electric pallet jack, and forklift, to transport parts from stock to staging or other designated areas
• Ensure products are clean, labeled, and packaged correctly
• Report defective materials or questionable conditions
• Maintain departmental housekeeping standards
• Package parts for secure and cost-effective shipment (parcels and skids)
• Safety operate packaging machinery, such as pallet wrapper, bubble wrap machine, scale and labelers
• Using computerized shipping software, accurately ship orders according to customer shipping instructions
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork

Qualifications

• Have a high school diploma or equivalent education
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills for professional interactions with freight carriers, customers, customs officials, and other Trico employees
• Be willing to learn how to use material handling equipment such as pallet jacks and a forklift
• Within one month, obtain and maintain OSHA-complaint forklift certification
• Be able to lift packages weighing up to 50 pounds and carry them for up to 10 feet
• Be able to stand, sit, bend, reach, and move about the facility
• Display flexibility to accommodate changing tasks and priorities

About Trico

Trico's culture sets us apart from other employers - we have low employee turnover to prove it. While we are organized into self-managing teams, we work as one group to deliver innovative and reliable solutions that help our customers protect and extend the life of their industrial equipment.

We offer

In addition to offering trust, stability, transparency, and respect to our employees, it's a fun and casual work environment where every employee has the opportunity to contribute and grow their talents. Additional benefits include:

• Personal Growth - Tuition Reimbursement, Professional Association memberships, paid training, personalized career development projects and opportunities
• Flexible Time Off - PTO available upon hire, PTO carryover from year to year, 10 paid Holidays, other leave policies available
• Perks - Casual dress, Trico branded clothing, formal and informal social events, community improvement projects, too many others to list
• Standard benefit programs - 3% company contribution to 401k, Medical, Dental/vision, Life, Disability, and Long Term Care insurance, contribution to Health Savings Account, Employee Assistance Plan

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Briefly describe why you are interested in this position.
• Trico offers an outstanding company culture, work environment, and benefits (earn PTO right away!). If you have any questions you would like answered about us, please list them below.
• The starting pay for this position is $19.00. Does that meet your pay expectations?
• Trico requires employees to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening. Are you willing and able to undergo a drug test as a condition of employment?

Experience:

• using computers in the workplace: 1 year (Preferred)
• Forklift: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person