Tyler Union - Shipping Clerk (Greenbrier Location)

Tyler Union, a division of McWane, Inc., is the nation's leading manufacturer of Ductile Iron Waterworks Fittings and Appurtenances has an immediate opening for aShipping Clerk.Tyler Union's main manufacturing facility is located on Greenbrier Dear Road in Anniston, AL.

As a Shipping Clerk, your responsibilities will include verifying and maintaining records for incoming and outgoing shipments, as well as preparing items for shipment. This will involve tasks such as assembling, addressing, stamping, and dispatching products, along with receiving, unpacking, verifying, and recording incoming shipments. Additionally, you will coordinate transportation arrangements for the products.

This is a salaried non-exempt position, with an excellent benefits package with health, life, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, vacation, holiday pay and 401(k).

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All candidates offered employment must submit to a drug screen, physical, and background check.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• 1st Responsibility - Ensuring personal safety and the safety of team members.
• Wears appropriate PPE which may include fall protection, respiratory protection, hearing protection, foot, hand, head and eye protection.
• Proactively promotes The McWane Way principles.
• Follow all processes and procedures associated with the Tyler Union Safety Program. Advise management of any deviations from this program.
• Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, damages, or discrepancies for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes.
• Prepare documents, such as bills of lading, shipping orders, customer paperwork, to route materials.
• Print less-than-truckload (LTL) documents.
• Bill less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload shipments.
• Confer or correspond with carrier representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, or nonconformance to specifications. File claims as needed.
• Pack, seal, label, or affix postage to prepare materials for shipping, using hand tools, power tools, or postage meter.
• Contact carrier representatives to make arrangements or to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials; assist to find lost or misplaced freight.
• Determine best shipping methods for materials to be shipped.
• Assist Sales with any special customer requests.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• High school diploma is required.
• One to three years of related on-the-job experience required.
• Experience working in a computer-based ERP and data entry preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, and WORK ACTIVITIES

• Knowledge required to perform this job successfully include but is not limited to clerical; production and processing; and customer and personal service.
• Skills required to perform this job successfully include but is not limited to speaking; active listening; critical thinking; reading comprehension; coordination; and judgment and decision making.
• Abilities required to perform this job successfully include but is not limited to near vision; problem sensitivity; oral expression; information ordering; oral comprehension; deductive reasoning; perceptual speed; speech clarity; inductive reasoning; and manual dexterity.
• Work activities associated with this position include getting information; interacting with computers; communicating with supervisors and peers; processing information; identifying objects, actions, and events; handling and moving objects; monitoring processes, materials, and surroundings; organizing, planning, and prioritizing work; documenting and recording information.
• Physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving the whole body include balancing, walking, standing, stooping, lifting up to 50 pounds, and handling tools and materials.
• Must have the ability to be self-directed and manage competing priorities in a deadline driven environment.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.