Shipping Technician

Crestoperations; Alexandria (LA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Crestoperations in Alexandria is seeking a Shipping Technician to join their team. This role involves managing the shipping and receiving of inventory, ensuring quality and safety while working in a collaborative environment.

The ideal candidate will possess a high school diploma, experience in a warehouse setting, and the ability to operate a forklift. The company values a commitment to quality and safety, offering a dynamic workplace where teamwork is essential.

Qualifications

• Able to read and understand measuring devices.
• Familiar with performing simple shop math.
• Experience in warehouse or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Receive and inspect materials from inbound trucks.
• Package and prepare shipments for delivery.
• Operate machinery safely including forklifts.

Skills

Customer Focus

Business Insight

Collaboration

Effective Communication

Safety Awareness

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

Lift Truck

Hand Tools

Job description

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations! DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high‑voltage, open‑air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half‑century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way. Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory‑Built Substations, our age‑old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is looking to hire a Shipping Technician to work from our Port of Alexandria Facility in our Warehouse Department. The Shipping Technician is responsible for performing duties related to the shipping, receiving, marshaling, and warehousing of stock inventory and project specific jobs‑in‑process inventory. The Shipping Technician is a member of the Project Support Services Department and reports directly to the Logistics Manager. The Shipping Technician is expected to conduct all work with the highest quality and professionalism and with the understanding that this position represents the last in the Company’s process to touch the product/service before the customer receives it.

Responsibilities

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity
• Performs tasks related to Project Services operations, included but not limited to: unloading of inbound trucks, receiving & inspecting materials, packaging / banding / bundling / wrapping of shipments, reeling / spooling cable, constructing wooden shipping crates, performing light manufacturing (drilling / cutting of aluminum and/or copper conductors), consolidating shipments by project and loading outbound trucks.
• Attends safety meetings as requested / instructed.
• Operates all machinery and equipment, including the Company’s forklift, in a safe manner always.
• Communicates frequently with the Logistics and the Project Coordinators or Project Managers concerning material receiving / shipping issues, material damage and coordination of all inbound/outbound logistics.
• Assist all Project Coordinators and Project Managers with the delivery of emergency products, recognize and share lessons learned (both good and bad) to all project coordinators and the company management and recognize and promote opportunities for quality and productivity improvements.
• Keeps the Project Service Center property in order, including but not limited to: routine maintenance and grooming of grounds and facilities and regular and preventative maintenance on all Company equipment and machinery.
• Promotes company goals.
• Works to displays an excellent safety record

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Read and understand measuring devices such as tape measure, rules, and combination squares.
• Perform simple shop math (add/subtract fractions, decimals, and whole numbers).
• Experience applying simple hand tools such as wrenches, hammer, screw driver etc.
• Basic computer skills.
• Experience working in a Warehouse or Manufacturing environment.
• Substation experience.
• Experience pinning steel.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints.
• Experience operating a Lift Truck and Man‑lift.
• Basic knowledge of how to assemble bus conductors both rigid and flexible.

Referral Level: Trades and Skilled

More information regarding The Crest Industries Family of Companies’ Internal and External Referral Programs can be found here: https://www.crestoperations.com/recruit-new

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is proud to be ISO-9001:2015 and ISN Certified.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation, contact your Human Resource Business Partner.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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