Shipping/Receiving Coordinator

Express Employment Professionals has partnered with a growing company in Ottawa, IL, in search of a shipping/ receiving coordinator to join the growing team.

Pay: $19.00 - $20.00/HR

Schedule: Monday - Friday. 6:00am to 2:30pm or 7:00am to 3:30pm.

Benefits: Health Dental Vision. Paid Sick Leave. Referral Program.

Job Duties:

Warehouse

• Assures all shipping/receiving activities proceed in a timely and accurate manner, including raw and packaging materials and customer returns
• Responsible for computer entry and administrative management of incoming and outgoing materials, with ability to communicate internally as required
• Evaluates processes and recommends changes to enhance operations
• Assure all shipping/receiving equipment is maintained and scheduled for routine maintenance
• Operates forklift equipment safely
• Communicates appropriate freight costs to Customer Service/Accounting and management.
• Responsibilities for participation in maintaining and auditing GMP, HACCP, and SQF requirements.
• Assures Shipping/Receiving personnel adhere to all HACCP, SQF and other regulatory or third-party requirements for receipt of raw and packaging materials
• Shall support Food Safety Culture activities within the organization in support of Food Safety Management System in accordance with the Food Safety Code for Manufacture of Food Packaging
• Assures Shipping/Receiving is aware of and adheres to all import/export compliance issues
• Serves as liaison with manufacturing, engineering and customer service personnel
• Negotiates LTL and TL transportation rates for inbound and outbound sales
• Input incoming shipment information (receiving) into AX

Purchasing

• Reviews product min-max inventory requirements with production and customer Service each month
• Purchase and maintain appropriate inventory of raw materials and packaging materials.
• Resin Control: Contacts resin supplier for orders and deliveries, while ensuring resin delivery feeds are appropriate; direct resin deliveries to appropriate silos; and maintain the required preventative maintenance of silos (cleaning schedule) and feeds from same
• Maintain computerized inventory of raw material and packaging
• Maintain vendor relationships to ensure best quality, price and service; including vendor audits and maintenance of approved vendor list
• Provide inventory reports of daily, weekly, and monthly raw material, packaging material and finished goods as required
• Oversees supply/demand planning for facility
• Shall acknowledge the Zip-Pak policy of requesting self-reporting of any illness, foodborne pathogens, or diseases which may be transmitted to food products and food contact surfaces that may jeopardize food safety.

Shipping

• Assures shipments include proper and correct shipping documents and are included with shipments
• Coordinate upcoming ship dates with product availability
• Receive customer order and pull product
• Prepare for shipping, including required labeling
• Call transportation if needed
• Load truck
• Input information into AX.
• Provides Leadership and day-to-day job expectations to Site Material Handlers

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