Shipping/Receiving Clerk

Tencarva Machinery Company; Louisiana; On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencarva Machinery Company is seeking a Warehouse Associate for its Louisiana facility. This role requires skills in inventory management and forklift operation, ensuring accurate shipping and cleanliness of the warehouse. Candidates must have a high school diploma or GED and a valid driver’s license.

Benefits

Paid Time Off including 10 holidays

Bonuses

Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) & Profit Sharing

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 1-2 years related work experience desirable.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Ability to perform basic math and read documents.

Responsibilities

• Receive and manage warehouse inventory accurately.
• Package and ship items in a timely manner.
• Maintain organization and cleanliness in the warehouse.

Skills

Forklift operation

Inventory management

Safety awareness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Forklift

Computer

Job description

Description

*This role is with Saladin Pump & Equipment, a division of Tencarva Machinery Company.

About Saladin

Founded in 1985 and acquired by Tencarva in 2018, Saladin Pump & Equipment is an industrial pump distributor based in Beaumont, TX, with a satellite office in Lake Charles, LA. The company serves the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana markets, catering to industrial plants. Saladin Pump is a long-time Goulds distributor and, in addition to the ITT companies, it represents Xylem, John Crane, Warren Rupp, Roper, Liquiflo, and Prominent, as well as many other manufacturers. The core territory for Saladin Pump & Equipment includes the following five counties in Texas: Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton and Orange; and the following five parishes in Louisiana: Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis. The Saladin Pump & Equipment facility includes a shop for repair of pumps and other rotating equipment.

About Tencarva: Founded in 1978, with roots dating back to 1926, Tencarva is an equipment distributor, engineering and design partner, ISO 9001 manufacturer, and full-service repair center. Serving thousands of customers across the industrial and municipal segments, Tencarva's various divisions cover 17 states and provide end-to-end, tailored solutions for complex systems within the fluid/solids handling and water/wastewater sectors. Our service offerings include system analysis and design, application engineering, custom fabrication of equipment packages, automation and controls, equipment repair, and thermal hard coatings.

Summary: Leverage ERP system and RF scanner to receive items shipped into the facility, maintain an accurate inventory, and ship items to customers. Forklift experience is required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Receive all items into the warehouse inventory via computer.
• Open all containers, check all incoming items for accuracy and damage, and initiate damage claims per carrier’s procedures.
• Accurately complete all appropriate receiving paperwork.
• Place items in the warehouse’s correct location: Inventory, Work-in-progress shelves, Pick and Hold shelves, Customer Pick Up area.
• Pull parts and pumps from inventory for shop jobs and orders.
• Put inventory on shelves or in bins in a timely and organized manner.
• Maintain warehouse in an organized manner, keep clean, sweep floors as needed, keep pallets piled neatly, and other housekeeping as required.
• Alternate taking home the warehouse pager with others in the department. Maintain back pads where surplus and scrap are stored.
• Occasionally drive company truck to make local customer deliveries.
• Take trucks in and out of the warehouse alarm system daily.
• Tag all parts and packages with part number, quantity, description, and customer tagging requirements.
• Receive finished jobs from the shop and prep for shipment.
• Package and/or skid items in a sturdy and damage-free manner.
• Send all accompanying paperwork, remove inappropriate labels and paperwork, and make sure items leave in the proper mode of shipment.
• Ship all items timely per paperwork or verbal instructions.
• Helping customers when picking up or dropping off parts or pumps, maintaining shipping and receiving supplies, reuse, and storage of boxes and other shipping materials.
• Safely perform duties, follow all safety policies and notify any member of management of any potential safety hazards.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Benefits Include:

• Paid Time off, including 10 holidays
• Bonuses
• Health Insurance, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
• 401(k) & Profit Sharing
• Employee Assistance Program

Requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or 1-2 years related work experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. The ability to write routine reports and correspondence. The ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.

Mathematical Skills: Must be able to perform basic mathematical equations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, use of whole numbers, and percentage and decimals.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have basic computer skills and internet software knowledge.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations: Must have a valid driver’s license and no points.

Equipment Operated: Forklift, hoist, crane, and other equipment deemed necessary to fulfill the job’s functions.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described herein represent those that an employee must meet to successfully perform this job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of duties of this position is considered very heavy work. Must be able to exert force over 100 pounds occasionally, and more than 50 pounds frequently; climb, balance, stop, kneel, crouch, reach overhead, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, feel, talk, hear, and perform repetitive motions.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include being able to accommodate/adjusting the lens of the eye to bring an object into sharp focus and maintain a good field of vision, observing an area that can be seen up or down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point.
• Must be able to satisfactorily meet the standards outlined in the lift test.
• Must be able to fulfill all essential job functions in a consistent state of alertness and safe manner.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing this job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing this job’s duties, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, and outside weather conditions; to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The duties, responsibilities, and activities described above are not exhaustive and may be subject to change. Additionally, please note that the job title for this posting is designed to be descriptive and may not reflect the official title used internally for job classification purposes.

Tencarva Machinery Company, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.