Shipping and Receiving Assistant

Forward March Inc. is collaborating with a leading global industrial manufacturing company delivering innovative solutions to customers that span many industries including transportation, construction, industrial, agriculture, retail and energy. The company aims to expedite Veterans and military spouses towards significant career opportunities in this industry. Job description below:

Our company is hiring in our Shipping and Receiving department. The individual in this role must be organized and have strong time management skills, as they handle a variety of tasks. This includes but is not limited to handling the scheduling of trucks, generating proper paperwork for material receipts and shipments, and ensuring positive truck flow through the facility, inbound and outbound.

Responsibilities:

• Communicates with carriers and schedule appointments for inbound/outbound loads
• Accurately receive, unload, and store material into inventory
• Accurately performs system transactions.
• Stages loads and loads trucks with products to meet delivery dates.
• Communicate and coordinate with outside departments on shipping/receiving.
• Ensures proper receipt of coils into computer system/computer data entry/build loads/print bills of lading complete export papers.
• Receives, stores and issues tools, etc. for plant.
• Maintains log books for issuing of certain production components.
• Trains and mentors other shipping/receiving employees.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Desired Experience:

• Knowledge of inventory control
• Working knowledge of PC and Windows operating system (trainable for Oracle)
• Familiarity with all shipping related paperwork and associated system transactions that are required for daily activities
• May need advanced knowledge and familiarity with plant-wide production, purchasing and maintenance activities to facilitate the appropriate stocking and issuing of MRO items
• Two to five years of prior shipping/receiving experience.
• Standard safety training provided

Benefits

Named to Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in America list four times, and with a people first philosophy rooted in The Golden Rule (treating others the way we would want to be treated), our company provides a safe and rewarding work environment. We have a team-oriented culture and believe employees are essential to the company's success.

In addition to a competitive benefits package, we offer the ability for individuals to grow within our organization through training, development and advancement opportunities.

Company Perks:

• Comprehensive benefits with low premiums starting day one
• 401k with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Company profit sharing
• Onsite barbershop / hair salon and fitness center
• Great team and team dynamics

Hesitant to apply because you may not meet every specific requirement? If this role is something you are interested in, but your previous experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply! At our company we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We recognize that individuals with diverse experiences and backgrounds are essential to our success. You may be the perfect candidate for this role or others within our organization.

Our company is a designer and manufacturer of market-leading brands that help enable people to live safer, healthier, and more expressive lives. We operate with three segments: Building Products, Consumer Products and Sustainable Energy Solutions. Our emphasis on innovation and transformation extends to building products including water systems, heating and cooling solutions, architectural and acoustical grid ceilings and metal framing and accessories, and consumer products in tools, outdoor living and celebrations categories sold under brand names Coleman®, Bernzomatic®, Balloon Time®, Level5 Tools®, Mag Torch®, Well-X-Trol®, General®, Garden-Weasel®, Pactool International® and Hawkeye™. We also serve the growing global hydrogen ecosystem through on-board fueling systems and gas containment solutions.

We are value-added partner to customers, featuring a wide variety of highly engineered products across Tools, Outdoor Living, and Celebrations. At our Chilton, WI facility we produce handheld torches and propane tanks which are essential for camping adventure and DYI’s. 

Our company, and its subsidiaries, is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, disability or veteran’s status.

Please contact Laurin at lladner@fmi.vet for more information.