Shipping Lead

Hood-Container-1; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 21,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly wage

Quarterly bonus program

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Hood Container Corporation in Houston seeks a Shipping Lead to manage a team responsible for ensuring shipments move efficiently and reach customers on time. You will coordinate loading, staging, and documentation while maintaining safety and accuracy in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires hands-on leadership, experience in shipping or warehouse settings, and the ability to work in a facility with varying temperatures.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team in shipping, manufacturing, or warehouse environments.
• Proven ability to coach and develop team performance.
• Proficiency with shipping paperwork and data entry.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate shipment preparation, staging, unloading, wrapping, and loading to ensure on-time, damage-free delivery.
• Route local deliveries, transfers, and pickups.
• Lead and coach team members, ensure safety and on-time performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Shipping/warehouse experience

Data entry

Computer skills

Physical stamina

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

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Shipping/Material Hdling Hrly Labor Full-time Regular 6207 North Houston Rosslyn Road Houston, Houston, TX, US

Your Impact

Lead the team that keeps customer shipments moving. As Shipping Lead, you’ll combine hands‑on leadership and organization to help finished products reach the right destination on time and damage‑free. When you join our Hood Container Houston team you will be supporting one of the largest corrugated box facilities service East Texas.

Shifts:

• First Shift (6 Am - 2 PM, Monday - Friday)
• Second Shift (2 PM - 10 PM, Monday - Friday), $2/hr Shift Differential
• Third Shift (10 PM - 6 AM, Monday - Friday), $1/hr Shift Differential

What You’ll Do

• Coordinate shipment preparation, staging, unloading, palletizing, banding, wrapping, and loading to ensure freight reaches the correct destination on time and damage‑free.
• Route and assign local deliveries, transfers, and pickups.
• Lead and coach team members, ensuring they are on time, ready for assigned work, and equipped to perform tasks safely.
• Communicate shipping delays, product damage, or shortages to Customer Service and management.
• Complete shipping documentation, administrative paperwork, and data entry accurately.
• Lead and complete unitized inventory counts, cycle counts, and related reports; confirm results with the Shipping Manager.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe shipping area.
• Support additional duties and projects as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience leading and coaching a team in a shipping, manufacturing, or warehouse environment to meet shipping and safety objectives.
• Computer proficiency to complete shipping paperwork and data entry.
• Proficiency in operating the equipment required for shipping functions.
• Ability to work inside the facility in temperatures ranging from 40 to 120 degrees for several continuous hours.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull 50 lbs.

Here’s why you’ll love working at Hood Container:

• Competitive pay & benefits: We offer a competitive hourly wage, a quarterly bonus program, and a comprehensive benefits package to keep you healthy and happy.
• Continuous learning: We invest in training and development to help you grow your skills and advance your career.
• Caring & Empowering Company Culture: Supportive & collaborative team dedicated to seeing you unbox your potential to help make a difference & make customers happy.

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens and customers we serve. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Hood Container Corporation is a family‑owned, Mill to Market company, specializing in containerboard and kraft paper, corrugated boxes, high graphic displays, and contract packaging. Our commitment to customer happiness, employee well‑being, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence drive our business. Over the last decade, Hood Container Corporation has grown to become one of the top ten Paper and Packaging Companies in the United States. To learn more about Hood Container Corporation visit www.hoodcontainer.com or check us out on social media!