Shipping - 1st Shift $17.00

Shipping – 1st Shift Monday–Friday | 7:00 AM–3:30 PM Starting Pay: $17.00 per hour Occasional Saturdays and overtime is be required during the 4th QT busy season Overtime opportunities may include an early 6:00 AM start time. Love Books? Come Join a Leader in the Industry! ReaderLink is a leading full-service distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to non-trade channel booksellers throughout North America. We work with some of the biggest names in retail across multiple retail channels.

Benefits

• 401(k) with company matching
• 3 weeks of paid time off (PTO) after 90 days, accrued monthly
• 4 weeks of PTO during your second year
• Employee discount
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan

The Shipper position handles, organizes and verifies outgoing shipments and prepares items for shipment to customer standards and specifications. Essential Functions: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position:

• Lifting continuously, 50-60 pounds
• Receive constructive performance feedback
• Maintain inventory of shipping materials and supplies.
• Obtain and sort orders by placing them on respective pallets.
• Load the appropriate trailer with the completed orders and make sure that orders are on the truck before a designated shipping time.
• Shrink-wrap products to pallet to secure articles for shipment.
• Operate electric pallet jack to move, convey or hoist shipments from shipping area to storage or truck.
• Label all shipping pallets with appropriate shipping labels
• Follow safety rules for personal protections and the protection of others; including maintaining a clean and safe work environment.
• Perform quality audits on shipping cartons
• Run and maintain print and apply area
• Package and tape all shipping cartons
• Brick stack load all cartons on to the trailers
• Bill and provide packing slips
• Ensure accurate weight specifications for each outgoing carton

Non-Essential Functions:

• Other duties may be assigned, directed or requested.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
• Must have basic computer skills.
• Knowledge of computerized inventory control system preferred.

Physical Requirements: The requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee:

• Must be able to stand up to 8 to 10 hours in a day.
• Must be able to walk up to 8 - 10 hours a day
• Will occasionally climb.
• Will occasionally push/pull carton train of boxed product weighing up to 200 pounds on assisted conveyor line.
• Will frequently bend, stoop, reach up and out, crouch, kneel, and push/pull from 5-50 pounds.
• Will frequently carry up to 35 pounds and occasionally carry up to 50 pounds.
• Will frequently lift up to 50 pounds.
• Will frequenty have repetitive foot movement.
• Will frequently have repetitive hand/arm movements for simple reaching, simple and firm grasping and/or fine hand manipulation.
• Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly required to stand; use hand to finger, handle or feel objects; and reach with hands and arms.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, in English.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to add and subtract basic math

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The work performed is in a warehouse environment
• The employee is frequently exposed to vibrations and dust and will be working around moving machinery
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels
• Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment