&H Valve Logistics Specialist

M&H Valve of Anniston, AL is actively looking for a Logistics Specialist.

This is a salaried position with an excellent benefits package with health, life, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, vacation, and holiday pay.

Overall responsibility for appropriate movement of goods in and out of the facility while maintaining a neat and well-organized work area. This includes verification and recording of incoming shipments, arranging and preparing items for outgoing shipments. Attention to details, accuracy, and organizational skills are of utmost importance.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Proactively exhibits and promotes The McWane Way Principles.
• Ensuring personal safety and the safety of your team members.
• Assists supervisors and managers in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
• Wear appropriate PPE which may include fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head and eye protection.
• Uses proper lifting and ergo techniques.

Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned.)

• Determines shipping methods, routes, or rates for materials to be shipped.
• Examines outgoing shipments to ensure shipments meet specifications.
• Contacts carrier representatives to make arrangements or to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials.
• Routinely monitors status of incoming and outgoing freight in various online tracking software.
• Accurately updates internal ERP software with arrival and departure information.
• Records shipment data, such as counts, weight, space availability, damages, discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes and makes adjustments as appropriate.
• Prepares documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders to route materials.
• Compares identifying information and counts, weighs, or measures items of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices, orders, or other records.
• Schedules and builds loads to ship to meet production schedule and customer delivery requirements.
• Examines shipment contents and compares with records, such as manifests, invoices, or others, to verify accuracy.
• Investigates discrepancies by effectively communicating with vendors and others outside the department.
• Validates previous freight data once truckload has been completed.
• Posts freight and shipping charges to all sales orders.
• Confers or corresponds with internal and external customers to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, or nonconformance to specifications or complaints.
• Packs, seals, labels, or affixes postage to prepare materials for shipping, using hand tools, power tools or postage meters, as appropriate.
• Requisition s and stores shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
• Answers shipping and scheduling questions of all internal and external customers.
• Periodically prepares reports for management.
• Maintains inventory of shipping materials and supplies.

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 and/or Experience

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite required;
  Microsoft AX experience preferred.
• Two years’ experience in transportation, logistics, warehouse, or supply chain preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication required.
• Must have ability to be self-directed and manage competing priorities in a deadline driven environment.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak and present effectively before groups of customers, clients, drivers, or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add and subtract and to multiply and divide. Uses mathematics to solve problems.

Reasoning Ability

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