Shipping & Receiving Associate

Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc.; Parsons (KS); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. is seeking a Shipping/Receiving professional to organize docks, manage inventory, and ensure Monument shipments meet quality standards. The role requires forklift experience, strong organization, and reliable teamwork in a warehouse environment.

You will follow the delivery schedule, maintain paperwork accuracy, and uphold safety standards while handling monuments and related products. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Must have strong organizational and time management skills.
• Able to adapt to changing delivery schedules and workloads.
• Excellent communication with home office, customers and management.
• Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on quality service.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and prepare monuments for shipment.
• Maintain cleanliness and upkeep of equipment and facilities.
• Follow warehouse delivery schedules and ensure labeling/paperwork accuracy.
• Ensure safety PPE compliance and attend required trainings.
• Assist with loading/unloading and operation of delivery vehicles.
• Perform general shipping/receiving duties and inventory checks.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Adaptability

Communication

Customer orientation

Reasoning

Team player

Safety awareness

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Forklift

Job description

Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

This position will ensure the shipping and/or receiving docks are organized, while managing, maintaining, and ensuring correct inventory.

This position is also responsible for ensuring all shipped and/or received Monuments, and related products or items that are loaded/unloaded meet quality expectations.

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings, which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway, you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way.

We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

We’re excited for you to join us at Wilbert. For more than 140 years, Wilbert has partnered alongside funeral professionals to deliver meaningful memorial experiences that honor lives, support families, and build lasting trust.

As the only provider offering a complete portfolio of burial, cremation, memorialization, and Pierce by Wilbert embalming solutions, we bring unmatched breadth, expertise, and innovation to every aspect of memorial care.

Our comprehensive approach empowers funeral professionals to meet the evolving needs of families with confidence, while ensuring every tribute is protected, preserved, and personalized.

For generations, families have trusted Wilbert to help create meaningful tributes that protect, preserve, and honor the lives they remember.

Position Overivew:

This position will ensure the shipping and/or receiving docks are organized, while managing, maintaining, and ensuring correct inventory.

This position is also responsible for ensuring all shipped and/or received Monuments, and related products or items that are loaded/unloaded meet quality expectations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all Monuments are properly inspected and prepared before shipment
• Responsible for general personal appearance, upkeep of all equipment, and facilities. This includes general housekeeping of the facility, sweeping, emptying trash, etc.
• Follow the delivery schedule set by the warehouse manager as required for the day’s shipments are correctly labeled and the paperwork is complete and accurate.
• Consider safety first and comply with PPE requirements.
• Complete all necessary and required training in a timely manner as assigned.
• Other misc. duties as assigned by the Shipping/Receiving Supervisor.
• Shipping/Receiving of monuments and vaults.
• Forklift Operation
• Unloading / Loading of trucks
• Load, unload, prepare, inspect and operate a delivery vehicle

Education:

High School, GED, or equivalent is preferred

Skills:

Excellent organizational and time management skills Adaptability - Effectively responds to last-minute changes to delivery schedules or timed deliveries. Communication/Language – Must be able to communicate effectively with the home office, customers, and management. Customer Orientation - Understands and meets the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets firsthand customer information and uses it to meet customers' needs by providing the highest quality products and services; acts with customers in their mind; develops effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect. Reasoning - Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Team Player - Supports team efforts; cooperates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; builds group cohesiveness by emphasizing team objectives and reinforcing cooperation; creates strong morale in his/her team and across functions; shares wins and successes; brings a feeling of participation and belonging to the team.

Requirements:

Forklift experience (2 years preferred)

Physical Requirements:

The working conditions and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. Employee must be able to handle, lift, and load Monuments up to approximately 100lbs+. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [e-mail], and please be sure to include the title and location of the position for which you’re applying.

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [e-mail], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.

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