Our client in the Burlington area is seeking a Shipper/Receiver.
This role is responsible for receiving incoming materials, verifying paperwork, and preparing outgoing shipments, supporting inventory accuracy, staging parts for production and service orders, and helping maintain a clean, organized, and efficient shipping and receiving area.
Shift: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm M-F with overtime and additional weekend work
Pay: $22-23/hr
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT
MUST HAVE A VALID COUNTERBALANCE FORKLIFT WITH 2 Years experience
Shipping Duties
- Prepare outgoing shipments for customers, dealers, installers, suppliers, service teams, and intercompany transfers.
- Pick, pack, wrap, strap, crate, bundle, and stage products safely to prevent damage during handling and transport.
- Verify outgoing shipment contents against work orders, sales orders, packing lists, bill of materials, parts lists, or customer requirements.
- Prepare shipping paperwork such as packing slips, courier labels, bills of lading, customs documents, freight forms, return documents, or internal transfer documents as required.
- Coordinate pickup readiness with carriers, couriers, freight companies, internal drivers, production leads, service teams, and management.
- Ensure large, long, awkward, heavy, or high-value items are packaged and loaded safely to prevent bending, scratching, crushing, shifting, or weather damage.
- Photograph or document finished shipments when required for proof of condition, quality, or customer communication.
Maintain clear staging areas for completed orders, partial orders, backorders, rush shipments, service kits, and installation kits.
Receiving Duties
- Receive incoming vendor shipments, courier packages, skids, crates, long-length aluminum or steel materials, hardware, tarp-related components, purchased parts, and service parts.
- Inspect deliveries for visible damage, shortages, overages, incorrect items, missing paperwork, or packaging concerns before accepting or signing off when possible.
- Match packing slips, purchase orders, part numbers, quantities, descriptions, and units of measure against received goods.
- Identify receiving discrepancies immediately and communicate them to purchasing, inventory, production, or management before material is released to the floor.
- Label received materials clearly with part number, description, quantity, date received, supplier, job number, work order number, rack/bin location, or other required identifiers.
- Move received goods to the proper rack, shelf, staging location, production area, quarantine area, or inspection area
- Support receiving records in the company system, Excel tracker, ERP, inventory log, or manual receiving records as directed.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Previous shipping, receiving, warehouse, inventory, logistics, manufacturing, trailer, automotive, metal fabrication, construction supply, or industrial parts experience preferred.
- Ability to read and follow purchase orders, packing slips, work orders, part numbers, bills of material, sales orders, labels, freight paperwork, and basic drawings or sketches.
- Strong attention to detail with quantities, part numbers, customer names, job numbers, shipping addresses, and paperwork accuracy.
- Basic computer skills, including email, Excel, inventory trackers, ERP systems, label printing, and shipping portals.
- Forklift experience preferred. Forklift certification is an asset or must be obtained if required by the company.
- Ability to safely use pallet jacks, carts, hand trucks, strapping tools, tape guns, measuring tools, barcode scanners, ladders, and basic warehouse equipment.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with purchasing, production, service, installation, sales, engineering, inventory, and management.
- Ability to prioritize rush orders, missing parts, damaged shipments, customer shipments, and production-critical material.
- Reliable attendance, positive attitude, strong work ethic, and willingness to help where needed.
- Separate urgent production, service, install, or customer-needed parts from general stock so they are not lost or consumed by the wrong order.
Experience handling aluminum extrusions, metal materials, long-length product, fabricated assemblies, trailer parts, crated products, or custom-manufactured goods.
- Experience with freight carriers, courier systems, bills of lading, customs paperwork, cross-border shipping, or dealer shipments.
- Experience creating shipping labels, packing lists, inventory labels, and barcode labels.
- Experience with cycle counting, min/max inventory control, shortage tracking, and warehouse layout organization.
- Experience supporting service kits, installation kits, field repair parts, or production staging
Pay: $22.00-$25.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Are you on a work permit or a Citizen/PR?
Experience:
- Shipping & receiving: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
