Shipping Associate

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Shipping Associate I, II, III

These positions are responsible for moving, stacking, and loading all SWD products into trailers, box trucks, or trucks for shipment. This position requires using forklifts, pallet jacks, carts, and racking. These positions are very physical and require an extensive amount of lifting and maneuvering. Quality is at the forefront of this position; ensuring that products being shipped are correct and damage‑free is paramount to the position’s success.

• Level I – Loader
  • Pull/Push product carts from the warehouse floor to the dock for loading
  • Uses hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products
  • Load “verified” doors, sections, products, and miscellaneous products by hand in a semi‑trailer as shipment load list
  • Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies
  • Secure all loads by shimming the product with foam or placing load bars or poles
  • Must know Alphabet and Numbers
  • Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area
  • Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques
  • Other duties may be assigned
• Level II – Spotter
  • Spot trailers for the day that needs to be loaded
  • Instruct team members on where and what needs to be staged for loading the trailer for the route
  • Once the product has been verified, instruct the members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product
  • Uses hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products
  • Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies
  • Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly
  • Knowledge of capacity planning of trailer or box truck
  • Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area
  • Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques
  • Other duties may be assigned
• Level III – Team Lead
  • Verify product by using load lists and/or scanner
  • Follow the route loading order determined by the supervisor
  • Once the product has been verified, instruct team members on what and how to load the trailer for the route specified in the load report based on size, quantity, and product
  • Uses hands or equipment to move garage doors, hardware, or related products
  • Lifts, stacks, and packs overhead garage doors, track, hardware, openers, and/or assemblies
  • Ensure loads are secure and loaded properly
  • Practice correct shipping procedures
  • Report issues, quality, or safety to the supervisor
  • Basic computer knowledge, ERP software, closing shipments, and creating documents for shipments
  • Communicates with the office team, customer service team, procurement team, and managers
  • Maintain a neat and orderly dock and warehouse area
  • Use safe lifting, loading, and operating techniques
  • Other duties may be assigned

• Preferred:
  High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

• Forklift certificate – for levels II & III (Preferred for level I)

• Quality – attentive to detail, committed to excellence, monitors quality levels, finds root causes, and acts on quality problems
• Sense of Urgency – prioritizes, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency, meets deadlines
• Vision & Values – supports values, communicates vision, generates enthusiasm, incorporates vision when planning

Employee must stand, walk, sit, squat, kneel and reach with hands and arms. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, including lifting overhead. Regularly required to talk or hear and use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. Reasonable accommodations may be made for disabilities.

Work environment includes moving mechanical parts, occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles, moderate noise level. Reasonable accommodations may be made for disabilities.

This job description does not state or imply that these are the only duties to be performed. Employees will be required to follow any other job‑related instructions and perform any other job‑related duties requested by authorized persons. All duties and responsibilities are essential and may be modified to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.