Job Details

Job Summary

​​ The Warehouse Expeditor ensures customer orders move quickly and accurately through all stages of the operation. This position coordinates activates 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. ​

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