Lead Shipping Associate

Shipping Lead

Are you a pro at all things picking, packing, and shipping? Then we have just the opportunity for you! As our Shipping Lead, you'll be responsible for ensuring all shipments leaving our distribution center are accurate and timely. You and the Shipping Supervisor will work together to manage picking, staging, repalletizing, verifying, wrapping, weighing, dimensioning, labeling, selecting carriers, arranging pickups, and tracking shipments. Our many construction jobsites across the county rely on the distribution center to correctly pick and ship the building materials they need to get the job done - making your role essential for meeting project timelines and budgets, and keeping our customers happy. Sound like an opportunity you'd be interested in? Apply to Power Design today!

Position Details / Responsibilities

Taking the lead when the Shipping Supervisor is out of the office, and assisting the Shipping Supervisor with the following :

• Maintaining a safe working environment by ensuring staff wears required safety gear and follows safety protocols at all times.
• Holding self and team fully accountable to getting all outbound orders to the jobsites accurately and on time.
• Prioritizing pick waves to ensure the most urgent orders are picked first.
• Managing the staging process to ensure each staging area contains the right items for a single order and project.
• Overseeing the repalletization process to ensure pallets are packed in the most efficient way to minimize freight costs.
• Leading the verification and quality control process to make sure the picked parts and quantities match each order exactly.
• Directing the staff to shrink wrap, weigh, dimension, and label the pallets accurately.
• Comparing freight quotes and selecting the right carriers for the right shipments based on cost, delivery time, and other jobsite factors.
• Booking carrier pickups and ensuring the right orders get on the right trucks.
• Entering tracking information into the system and answering any tracking related questions quickly.
• Researching lost or damaged freight and processing freight claims as required.
• Communicating proactively with project managers when a shipment may have an issue.

Other responsibilities include :

You will also need to be able to :

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At Power Design, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Power Design believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is paramount to our success as a national company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool nationwide.