Crating & Packaging Specialist / Driver

Socket.dev; Tennessee; On-site; USD 23,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Magnum Venus Products, Inc. is seeking a Crating & Packaging Specialist / Driver to build crates and secure shipping containers, while also moving materials between nearby locations.

The role blends 60% packaging with 40% driving and logistics support to meet shipping deadlines and maintain safe, accurate shipments. You will design and implement shipping best practices, coordinate with production teams, and perform basic shipping documentation and receiving tasks.

Qualifications

• Proficient woodworking experience (carpentry, building of crates and shipping containers).
• Ability to safely work with saws, hand tools, and blueprints.
• Ability to pass MVR check.
• Advanced understanding of proper bracing, immobilizing, supporting, and fixturing of heavy components that need to withstand transportation via truck, air and ship.
• Ability to document and record shipments (written and photographed).
• Knowledge of standard mechanical parts.
• Knowledge of shipping and receiving documentation.
• Good math skills.
• Basic Technology skills (barcode scanning, document control).
• Ability to work with routine standard procedures, but adjusting when requested.
• Self-starter with good focus and responsive to multiple coworker requests. Exceptionally well organized with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to operate lifts, cranes and hoists.

Responsibilities

• Build and secure wooden crates, shipping containers, and other packaging as needed.
• Assist in the design and implementation of best practices and processes for shipping operations.
• Work with team leaders to schedule and anticipate the shipping needs for production.
• Assist with Shipping & Receiving and basic inspection duties as needed.
• Prepare shipments according to shipping requirements. Assemble and check orders, pack and crate, label.
• Complete and maintain required paperwork and inventory transactions, if needed.
• Check and receive incoming deliveries against purchase orders and distribute to recipient or inventory location.
• Assist loading and unloading trucks as needed.
• Using Shipping Checklists or other documentation, ensure Customer orders are shipped complete and components are securely placed in packaging material.
• Communicate with supervisors, leads and other operations personnel about depleting inventory, materials, and discrepancies.
• Operate a forklift, hand truck, and crane.
• Work effectively as a team member contributing to a positive workplace.
• Transport materials between locations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Woodworking

Saws & blueprints

MVR check

Bracing/fixturing

Shipment documentation

Mechanical parts

Shipping docs

Math skills

Tech literacy

Process adherence

Self-starter

Lifts/Crane operation

Job description

Description

Magnum Venus Products (MVP) is a global manufacturer of fluid movement and production solutions for industrial applications in composites and adhesives markets. MVP collaborates with its customers to offer tailored production solutions to meter, mix, dispense, and apply materials. For over 80 years, MVP has been a leading equipment provider for the marine, infrastructure, pool and bath, oil & gas, transportation, aerospace, and wind industries.

As a family-owned business, MVP serves its customers and communities with integrity and respect to create a better experience. Our same core values with which the company was founded on 80 years ago continue to guide us today as we create a better experience for our employees, customers, and communities.

MVP proudly offers a competitive medical (partially Company-paid), dental, vision, life and disability plan; 401k retirement plan with a 3% match; Paid Time Off (starting at 13 days per year); 9 Company-paid holidays; 2 Floating holidays.

Job Summary:

The Crating & Packaging Specialist / Driver will perform physical and clerical tasks in conjunction with building large crates and shipping containers for finished product, and properly securing for transportation. Additionally, they will assist with incoming inspection and material movement, including loading and unloading trucks, shipping and receiving, and other responsibilities as needed. This role also includes driving materials and product between company locations (all within 15-20 minutes of each other) as business needs require. The split between crating/packaging duties and driving/material movement duties is approximately 60/40, though this may shift based on operational demand. This specialized role is essential for meeting shipping/receiving deadlines, ensuring safe shipments, supporting timely inter-location logistics, and providing great internal customer service.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build and secure wooden crates, shipping containers, and other packaging as needed
• Assist in the design and implementation of best practices and processes for shipping operations
• Work with team leaders to schedule and anticipate the shipping needs for production
• Assist with Shipping & Receiving and basic inspection duties as needed:
  • Prepare shipments according to shipping requirements. Assemble and check orders, pack and crate, label.
  • Complete and maintain required paperwork and inventory transactions, if needed
  • Check and receive incoming deliveries against purchase orders and distribute to recipient or inventory location.
  • Assist loading and unloading trucks as needed
• Using Shipping Checklists or other documentation, ensure Customer orders are shipped complete and components are securely placed in packaging material
• Communicate with supervisors, leads and other operations personnel about depleting inventory, materials, and discrepancies.
• Operate a forklift, hand truck, and crane.
• Work effectively as a team member contributing to a positive workplace. Demonstrate company values.
• Transport materials between locations
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficient woodworking experience (carpentry, building of crates and shipping containers)
• Ability to safely work with saws, hand tools, and blueprints
• Ability to pass MVR check
• Advanced understanding of proper bracing, immobilizing, supporting, and fixturing of heavy components that need to withstand transportation via truck, air and ship
• Ability to document and record shipments (written and photographed)
• Knowledge of standard mechanical parts
• Knowledge of shipping and receiving documentation
• Good math skills
• Basic Technology skills (barcode scanning, document control)
• Ability to work with routine standard procedures, but adjusting when requested.
• Self- starter with good focus and responsive to multiple coworker requests. Exceptionally well organized with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to operate lifts, cranes and hoists

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Magnum Venus Products, Inc. is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship. Magnum Venus Products, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer