Shipping Coordinator

SUMMARY: The role requires demonstrated forklift competency, strong situational awareness, and consistent compliance with plant traffic and material-handling rules. This individual can independently manage daily shipping and receiving activities, improve schedules and workflows, communicate performance through clear data, and work effectively across all levels of the organization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safely operate assigned forklifts/powered industrial trucks in accordance with training, plant rules, and OSHA/company requirements.
• Perform required pre-use inspection and report equipment defects or unsafe conditions before operation.
• Support production by moving and staging in-process unibodies, assembled pallets, raw materials, rejected materials, and other supplies.
• Maintain production flow by responding to material movement requests and positioning materials in designated locations.
• Load, unload, stack, stage, and transport materials without damaging product, racks, equipment, or facility infrastructure.
• Follow pedestrian-right-of-way rules, speed limits, aisle controls, horn/intersection requirements, and designated traffic patterns.
• Maintain accurate material identification/traceability and complete movement or inventory documentation/scanning as required.
• Maintain housekeeping in staging and travel areas and immediately report spills, obstructions, damaged racks, or other hazards.
• Perform other related material-handling duties as assigned.

CORE EXPECTATIONS:

• Safety-first behavior and compliance with all plant policies, PPE requirements, and authorized work practices.
• Consistent attendance, punctuality, dependability, teamwork, and respectful workplace conduct.
• Ability to learn and follow standard work, respond to supervisor direction, and report unsafe, abnormal, or nonconforming conditions promptly.
• Maintain work area organization and housekeeping/5S standards.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Frequent sitting while operating a forklift with repeated head/neck turning, hand/foot control use, and mounting/dismounting equipment.
• Regular walking and occasional manual material handling within established job limits.
• Ability to maintain visual awareness, depth perception, and safe control around pedestrians, racks, machines, and other vehicles.
• Required use of plant PPE and seat belt/restraint systems where equipped.

Work is performed primarily indoors in a manufacturing environment with exposure to noise, temperature variation, moving equipment, and industrial processes. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical requirements should be validated by HR/EHS for the final approved job description and should reflect the actual essential functions of the assignment.