Job Description

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc

Byron Center, MI

Shipping Expeditor

Shift: Days

Pay Range: $23.50 to $25.50

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Always maintain the highest standards with respect to safety, leading by example and ensuring team members follow all policies, procedures, practices and regulations.

• Actively lead and participate in the plant safety program including implementing, and enforcing safety policies, procedures, practices and projects.
• Ensuring accurate records of inventory, coordinating stock levels, and managing inventory counts.
• Overseeing the timely and accurate shipment of goods, coordinating with transportation providers, and ensuring compliance with shipping regulations.
• Inspecting outgoing shipments for accuracy, condition, and quality, and addressing any discrepancies.
• Maintaining detailed records of shipments, and finished goods inventory levels, and generating reports for management.

• Analyzes issues and develops solutions. Recommends and implements measures to improve methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Meets with management to discuss current issues, production goals, and quality control standards, and to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products ordered.

• Coordinate maintenance activities with the maintenance team.

• Communicates company goals and policies to all team members and coaches them towards achievement of the goals.
• Confers with other team members to discuss progress towards production and quality goals.
• Participates in investigation and corrective action processes.

• Assists with training new workers and ensure all members of the team follow company policies and safety regulations.
• Manage and assist with auditing the quarterly grade out QC process.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Ability to stay late as required to continue loading trucks.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; additional education or certifications in logistics, warehouse management, or a related field is a plus.
• Proven experience in shipping operations, preferably within the lumber or building materials industry.
• Proficiency in inventory management software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must be able to drive a Hi-Low

Competencies:

• Must follow all established safety policies. Must have good safety record and a positive, can-do attitude.
• Be adaptable, work where needed as required.
• Willing to ask questions and work closely with Site Manager.
• Must be able to work any shift -- overtime, weekends, holidays as required and in all conditions.
• Capable of completing required documentation.
• Able to work as a team, get along with team members; give and take advice and criticism from other team members.
• Strong leader with examples of improving performance and cost savings.

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

• Ability to take initiative on continuous improvement processes and find creative resolutions by identifying opportunities and boldly offering solutions.
• Ability to effectively work, communicate, and coordinate activities within all levels of the organization. Excellent planning, organizing, prioritizing, time management and delegation skills.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear.
• The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• This job may require the following equipment when in the field eye protection, hearing protection, leather/rubber gloves, safety shoes, sleeve protection, safety vest, and a hard hat.