Shipper 3rd shift

Alpha Baking Co.; Cudahy (WI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha Baking Company, Inc. is seeking a Shipper to prepare items for shipment in a fast-paced facility in Wisconsin. You will move bread/bun stacks, operate an electric pallet jack, and create shipping labels to ensure timely orders.

You will support loading, unloading, and staging, while maintaining accuracy in shortages and damages, and collaborating with the shipping team to meet 24/7 production needs. Physical duties include frequent lifting up to 50 lbs, standing on concrete floors, and

Qualifications

• Able to stand and walk on concrete floors and trailer beds.
• Frequent pushing/pulling of transport racks and bread trays.
• Frequent bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, lifting, carrying.
• Frequent to constant handling and grasping of bakery trays and boxes.
• Frequently lift and/or move items up to 50 lbs.
• Reliable transportation and attendance for a 24/7 production facility.

Responsibilities

• Move bread/bun stacks to shipping dock using two wheel cart to stage product.
• Physically break down stacks and shuttle trays to staging area.
• Unload semi-trailers, route shipments, record shortages, and rectify damages.
• Load cased products onto pallets and operate electric pallet jack.
• Apply stretch wrap to palletize products for shipment.
• Create shipping labels and handle shipping information.
• Work with shipping team to complete orders in a timely manner.
• Maintain accuracy in shortages and damaged goods and communicate with leadership.

Skills

Constant standing

Lift up to 50 lbs

Team collaboration

Attendance reliability

Safety awareness

Tools

Electric pallet jack

Stretch wrap bander

Job description

The Shipper works in a fast pace environment preparing items for shipment by performing the following duties:

• Physically moves bread/bun stacks to shipping dock using two wheel cart to stage product.
• Repetitive use of upper extremities to break down stacks of product to be sent to depot locations.
• Physically shuttle bread trays and materials to staging area.
• Unloads semi-trailers and routes incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
• Loads cased bread/bun products onto pallets.
• Operates electric pallet jack to move or hoist materials from packaging to shipping dock.
• Operates stretch wrap bander to palletize bread/bun products for shipment.
• Performs all computer functions necessary to track various aspects of goods.
• Efficiently works within a busy dispatch department.
• Creates shipping labels and handles shipping information.
• Works well with shipping team to complete orders in a timely manner.

• Worker must be able to constantly stand and walk on concrete floors and trailer beds.
• Frequent pushing/pulling of transport racks and bread trays.
• Frequent bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, lifting, carrying is required.
• Frequent to constant handling and grasping of bakery product trays, transport racks and boxes.
• Frequently lift and/or move items up to 50 lbs.
• Must have reliable transportation and attendance to meet employer's attendance standards for 24/7 production facility.

Required qualifications, skills and experience :

• Worker must be able to constantly stand and walk on concrete floors and trailer beds.
• Frequent pushing/pulling of transport racks and bread trays.
• Frequent bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, lifting, carrying is required.
• Frequent to constant handling and grasping of bakery product trays, transport racks and boxes.
• Frequently lift and/or move items up to 50 lbs.
• Must have reliable transportation and attendance to meet employer's attendance standards for 24/7 production facility.

About us :

Alpha Baking Company, Inc., a national distributor of breads, rolls and buns, as well as sweet goods, was founded in 1979. Headquartered in Chicago, Alpha Baking has three production plants in Illinois and others in Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Alpha Baking’s retail brands include S. Rosen’s, MaryAnn, Natural Ovens Bakery, Kreamo, and Golden Hearth, with additional product sold under private label agreements and the Alpha Baking foodservice brand. Our broad array of products can be found in national restaurant chains, quick service restaurants, schools, institutions, major league sports franchises, national grocery chains and independent grocery stores.

EEO statement :

We are an equal opportunity employer with policies prohibiting unlawful discrimination on the basis of any protected classification under applicable local, state and/or federal laws which include race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or veteran status, Alpha Baking Company, Inc. is an Affiéred Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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