Shipping/Receiving Clerk (ATSO)

General Summary: The Shipping/Receiving Clerk plays a crucial role in managing the shipping and receiving of goods within a company or warehouse setting. Their primary responsibilities involve handling incoming and outgoing shipments, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining organized inventory. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Shipping Responsibilities: Prepare outgoing shipments, ensuring items are correctly packed, labeled, and documented for delivery.

Coordinate with carriers, freight forwarders, or postal services to schedule pickups or deliveries. Verify and confirm shipping orders, ensuring accuracy in quantities and items. Receiving Responsibilities: Receive incoming shipments, inspecting and verifying the contents against purchase orders or packing slips.

Unload delivery trucks, record received items, and process paperwork for inventory. Organize and distribute received items to appropriate departments or storage locations. Inventory Management: Maintain accurate inventory records using computer systems or manual logs.

Monitor inventory levels and report shortages, damages, or discrepancies. Assist in periodic inventory counts and reconciliation to ensure accuracy. Quality Control: Inspect incoming and outgoing products for quality, damages, or defects.

Report any issues with shipments to the appropriate departments. Documentation and Record-Keeping: Generate shipping and receiving documentation such as packing lists or shipping labels. Maintain organized records of all incoming and outgoing shipments.

Safety and Compliance: Adhere to safety protocols and guidelines while handling shipments or operating equipment. Follow company policies and procedures regarding shipping, receiving, and storage. Equipment Operation: Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, or other equipment to move, load, or unload shipments when required.

Communication: Collaborate with various departments, suppliers, and carriers to coordinate shipping and receiving activities. Communicate effectively with team members and supervisors regarding inventory status and any issues that arise. Problem-Solving: Identify and resolve any discrepancies in shipments or inventory counts.

Troubleshoot logistical issues to ensure smooth shipping and receiving operations. Organizational Skills: Maintain a clean and organized work area, ensuring efficient workflow and easy access to inventory. Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education/Experience: High school degree helpful but not required with appropriate experience; basic knowledge of Windows office and associated database/data entry, electronic scales, general safety procedures related to warehouse operations and ability to operate a forklift.

Experience with ERP systems is desirable. Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts.The noise level in the environment is moderate to loud. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand.

The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 40 pounds without assistance; 75 pounds with assistance.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Notice of Affirmative Action Plan for Individuals with Disabilities and for Veterans of the Vietnam Era It is policy of this Company to seek and employ qualified personnel at all locations and facilities, and to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees in recruiting, hiring, placement, training, compensation, insurance, benefits, promotion, transfer, and termination.

To achieve this, we are dedicated to taking affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities and veterans of the Vietnam Era. The objective in adopting the Affirmative Action Program is to place qualified individuals with disabilities and Vietnam Era veterans in all job classifications. This Affirmative Action Program is available for inspection by any applicant or employee by contacting the Company's EEO Coordinator, in the Human Resources office, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.

If you need an accommodation to apply, please contact Pam Jacobs at (407) 381-6062 for assistance. This position may require knowledge of SOX / 404 internal audit controls and related documentation. We promote a drug free environment and conduct pre-employment testing.

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