Shipping Lead

Hood Container Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonus program

Training & growth

Supportive culture

Sustainable industry

Job summary

Hood Container Corporation in Houston is seeking a Shipping Lead to guide a team responsible for preparing and moving shipments. You will coordinate loading, staging, and documentation to ensure accurate, on‑time deliveries while maintaining safety standards in a fast-paced corrugated packaging environment.

The role requires hands‑on leadership, effective coaching, and the ability to work across shifts with a focus on quality, safety, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience leading a team in shipping, manufacturing, or warehousing to meet shipping and safety objectives.
• Proficiency with computers to complete shipping paperwork and data entry.
• Ability to operate shipping equipment as required.
• Ability to work in temperatures ranging from 40 to 120 degrees for extended periods.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate shipment preparation, staging, unloading, palletizing, banding, wrapping, and loading to ensure on-time, damage-free delivery.
• Route and assign local deliveries, transfers, and pickups.
• Lead and coach team members, ensuring punctuality and readiness, and safe task completion.
• Communicate shipping delays, damage, or shortages to Customer Service and management.
• Complete shipping documentation, administrative paperwork, and data entry accurately.
• Lead and complete unitized inventory counts and related reports; confirm results with Shipping Manager.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe shipping area.
• Support additional duties and projects as assigned.

Skills

Team leadership

Shipping & logistics

Data entry

Equipment operation

Temp tolerance

Physical endurance

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

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.

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.
• Growing: Company in a Sustainable Industry: Consider a Future in Corrugated Packaging

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!