1st SHIFT Shipping​/Receiving

SHIPPING / RECEIVING OPERATOR

Keep it moving. Keep it accurate. Keep the Shipments moving.

Brewer, Maine

1st Shift

$19.25-$24.25/hr

Like staying busy, keeping things organized, and making sure everything gets where it needs to go? We should talk.

At Somic America, our Shipping and Receiving team keeps materials coming in, finished products going out, and production moving in the right direction. We’re looking for a dependable, organized person who can handle forklifts, shipments, scanners, paperwork, without losing track of the details.

• Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage
• 10 paid holidays, including one floating holiday
• Paid time off to relax and recharge
• Professional-development support and opportunities to learn
• Wellness programs, employee-assistance resources, among other great programs.
• Company BBQs, holiday celebrations, family outings, and other employee events
• Reliable biweekly pay

As a Shipping/Receiving Operator, you’ll help make sure incoming materials are received correctly and customer shipments leave safely, accurately, and on time. In short: the right product, in the right place, at the right time.

• Load outbound shipments and unload incoming materials from trucks, pallets, racks, and shelves
• Verify packing slips, pallet tags, quantities, and shipment paperwork for accuracy
• Stage, strap, wrap, label, and prepare customer, service-part, and export shipments
• Use PLEX to receive materials, scan shipments, assign serial numbers, and maintain traceability
• Sort returnable packaging and mixed component skids while recording tote and pallet quantities
• Print Kanban labels and customs invoices and prepare Fed Ex, UPS, and third-party billing paperwork
• Safely operate a forklift, tugger, and electric hoist and complete required equipment checks and logs
• Maintain FIFO, packaging inventory, standardized work, 5S, planned maintenance, and kaizen improvements

You’re the person who notices when a number is off, a label is missing, or a pallet is not where it belongs. You can stay organized while there are alot of movement around you.

• High school diploma or GED
• Ability to read and understand manifests, bills of lading, correspondence, memos, and work instructions
• Basic math skills using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, rates, ratios, and percentages
• Basic Microsoft Excel and Word skills and the ability to use scanners and PLEX
• Ability to safely operate, or learn to operate, a forklift
• Strong attention to detail, organization, communication, and practical problem-solving skills
• Dependability and the ability to work independently while supporting the entire team

You’ll safely handle and store materials, follow shipping and receiving procedures, complete equipment checks, maintain a clean work area, and report unsafe or unusual conditions. Accuracy matters.

Safe work. Accurate shipments. Happy customers. That’s the goal.

Shipping and Receiving is where deadlines, production, and customer service all meet. We’re looking for someone who consistently works their assigned schedule, arrives ready to contribute, communicates clearly, and helps maintain 100% on-time delivery. We understand that illness and family emergencies happen; employees who cannot report to work must follow the company’s established call-in procedures.

This is an active, hands-on position. Employees regularly stand and walk for eight or more hours, reach, handle materials, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl,…