Shipping Lead; 1st shift

Rector Seal Earth City
13490 Lakefront Dr
Earth City, MO 63045, USA

The Shipping Lead is responsible for supporting daily shipping operations by leading associates, coordinating workflow, and ensuring customer orders are shipped safely, accurately, and on time. This role helps drive productivity, quality, and safety while serving as a floor leader for the shipping team. The position is an on‑site hourly role that requires daily presence at our Rector Seal Earth City, MO facility, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with overtime as needed.

• Lead and support daily shipping operations, including picking, staging, packing, loading, and shipment verification.
• Assign work and help prioritize daily tasks to meet shipping schedules and customer expectations.
• Monitor workflow to ensure productivity, accuracy, and quality standards are achieved.
• Train and coach associates on standard work, safety procedures, equipment operation, and shipping processes.
• Assist with resolving shipping errors, inventory discrepancies, damaged products, and operational issues.
• Ensure shipments are properly labeled, scanned, documented, and loaded correctly.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
• Communicate operational updates, staffing concerns, and issues to leadership.
• Support KPI tracking, including lines shipped, productivity, dock flow, and shipment accuracy.
• Help enforce company policies, attendance expectations, and safety standards.

• 3+ years of recent warehouse or distribution center experience.
• 3+ years of recent experience operating material handling equipment, such as forklifts, pallet jacks, walkie riders, and order selectors.
• Understanding of Bills of Lading (BOLs), shipping documentation, and freight paperwork.

• Strong communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced warehouse environment.

• Prior leadership or lead experience.
• Basic computer and WMS experience.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to a non‑climate‑controlled warehouse environment. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands and fingers to type or dial, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

This position requires computer use. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

At Rector Seal, our employees enjoy comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, paid time off program with paid holidays, and various wellness programs.

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