Shipping Specialist

Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Shipping Specialist will be responsible for completing various shipping related duties and administrative tasks to ensure accurate and timely performance of all shipping functions. The ideal candidate will have prior shipping experience, be detail-oriented, take pride in their work, and support a positive and fun working environment.

WHY JOIN US?

Our desire to be the best starts with a focus on our employees. We want to help our employees create and find balance in their lives. We do this through a great work culture, competitive pay, multiple benefit options, 401(k) with match, tuition reimbursement, time off options that work for you, growth and development, supporting our communities, and more.

WHAT WE DO

Beacon Embedded Works is a full-service provider of embedded solutions. Its innovative System on Modules (SOMs) are backed by an extensive suite of customization, security, and support services and its dedicated team of experts provide in-house manufacturing and support to accelerate development and reduce risk.

All Beacon Embedded Works SOMs are designed, manufactured, and supported in its US-based facility in Eden Prairie, MN. As dependable, pre-certified, and feature dense solutions, Beacon Embedded Works SOMs serve the most strenuous applications, including medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets. Beacon Embedded Works operates mostly in the US but also has a small customer base in continental Europe and the Americas.

Beacon Embedded Works is part of the Magnetics & Controls division of discover IE Group plc, a British company listed on the main London stock exchange where it is a member of the FTSE 250 index.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Responsibilities for this role

• Ensure all customer orders ship on time and complete
• Ensure all daily tasks are accomplished
• Prepare boxes and supplies to set up shipping for the day
• Check sales orders for part and serial numbers to make sure it matches packing slips and ships out properly
• Maintain accurate shipping records. Scan necessary paperwork to network.
• Ensure proper packaging for all outbound shipments (Understand all special shipping Instructions as required by Customers, etc.)
• Process shipments for all modes of transportation including LTL, parcel, air, and courier
• Ensure all international shipments have proper paperwork (e.g. commercial invoices, packing slips, NAFTA certificates, and shipper export declarations)
• Work closely with Customer Focus Teams and Manufacturing Floor personnel re: order processing, and invoicing to ensure all sales orders are expedited and received in the shipping department in a timely manner
• Monitor shipping supplies and order accordingly
• Maintain superior teamwork, effort, and attitude
• Keep work area clean, neat and organized
• Adhere to all shipping compliance requirements
• Cross train to back-filling other positions/functions (i.e., receiving, packaging, material put-away, cycle counting) as required

Essential Responsibilities of all Beacon Embedded Works employees

• Support, demonstrate and drive our core values
• Interact positively and professionally with all employees and customers
• Maintain reliable attendance
• Perform work safely and adhere to all safety requirements
• Perform other duties as assigned

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach…