Job Details

Warehouse Expeditor

The Warehouse Expeditor ensures customer orders move quickly and accurately through all stages of the operation. This position coordinates activities across the production floor and cross-functional departments to process, prioritize, and complete orders without delays.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Receives expedited orders from production management to initiate order process. Follows up with each department to ensure timely processing.
• Ensures that all facets of the orders are being processed in a timely basis; jobs to production, purchase orders issued, pick tickets issued.
• Assists in obtaining raw material to expedite order. May also assist in calling vendors or suppliers to expedite material needed to complete order.
• Communicates realistic delivery capabilities to salesperson or customer service on a periodic basis.
• Communicates with production staff on the lineup of rush orders in process.
• Works on obtaining on time delivery for several orders at the same time.
• Works with QC inspectors to ensure inspection and documentation.
• Communicates with shipping staff to ensure proper packing and/or packaging of product.
• Works with hot shot drivers to schedule delivery in accordance with product completion schedules.
• Ensures paperwork and system completion are accurate and thorough.
• Keeps track of all orders for comparison of delivery goals and objectives.
• Assists providing production team members with urgent order requests.
• Ensures rushed or urgent order requests are inspected.
• Coordinates order handoff to the shipping team and ensures timely, accurate shipment to customers.

Skills

• Ability to solve practical problems and operate with a variety of concrete variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Basic computer operation (spreadsheets and databases) knowledge of Symix a plus.
• Ability to drive a Forklift.

Education

• Required: High school diploma, GED or equivalent.

Work Experience

• Required: Minimum of one year of employment in an industrial setting performing shipping, production, or inventory duties.

Physical Requirements

• Works continuously with weights from five (5) to sixty (60) pounds.
• Requires good hand-eye coordination.
• Ability to maneuver through the production floor.
• Ability to lift, climb, stoop and bend.
• Ability to operate forklift and hold certification.
• Must be able to work in cold, heat and dusty environment; includes occasional work outside in the elements.
• Must have mental capacity to solve complex problems with a highly developed sense of urgency.