Shipping & Receiving Lead — Lead Fast-Paced Warehouse Team

Lake Air Products; Vadnais Heights (MN); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lake Air Products is seeking a Shipping and Receiving Lead to manage a team of shipping clerks and material handlers at the Vadnais Heights, MN location. This first-shift role runs from 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, in a fast-paced metal manufacturing environment.

The ideal candidate will oversee shipments, verify records, coordinate with vendors, and ensure accurate, timely operations to support production schedules.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of shipping knowledge and laws.
• Knowledge of available vendors and the ability to save the company money.
• Must have good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly in person and by phone.
• Willingness to seek out resolution when issues arise.
• Ability to interact with customers and companies while seeking a win-win situation for both the customer and company.

Responsibilities

• Oversees incoming and outgoing shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and condition of shipments.
• Verifies records and packing slips on incoming and outgoing shipments, and overseeing preparing items for shipment.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in lifting, transporting, storing, and loading materials and products by use of pallet jacks, two wheel carts or industrial forklift trucks.
• Creates POs for outside services; receives product; partners with vendors and purchasing for hot jobs.
• Performs manufacturing receipts, job analysis, and works to repair material or labor errors. Any extreme situations are discussed with the appropriate management otherwise adjusted using Expedites jobs as necessary.
• Determines routing and legal load limits of trucks, according to established schedules and weight limits.
• Analyzes shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, orders, packing slips, and other records to determine shipping priorities, work assignments, and shipping methods required to meet shipping and receiving schedules.
• Directs movement of shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage and work areas.
• Interprets job orders to workers, and assigns duties.
• Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
• Confers with supervisors of other departments to coordinate flow of materials or products to meet production schedules.

Skills

Shipping knowledge & laws

Vendor knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Issue resolution

Customer interaction

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Lake Air Products is seeking a Shipping and Receiving Lead to manage a team of shipping clerks and material handlers at the Vadnais Heights, MN location. This first-shift role runs from 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, in a fast-paced metal manufacturing environment.

The ideal candidate will oversee shipments, verify records, coordinate with vendors, and ensure accurate, timely operations to support production schedules.