Shipping Operations & Receiving Lead (Export/NAFTA)

Do these challenges sound like you?

• Keeping documentation flawless—packing slips, BOLs, and export papers—under tight timelines.
• Orchestrating carriers, giving drivers directions, and calling pickups the moment freight is ready.
• Switching gears between staging outbound loads and receiving from the mills without missing a beat.
• Helping Sales and customers fix, reprint, and email documents swiftly.
• Coaching new teammates while maintaining Safety # 1 and clean, orderly aisles.

What you’ll tackle

Documentation & Compliance

• Prepare packing slips, Bills of Lading, and export documents as needed.
• Perform final inspection of all company shipping paperwork.
• Match signed BOLs to Sales orders and finalize BOLs when required.
• Prepare certifications per Sales order requests.
• Maintain information regarding NAFTA for export activity.

Carrier & Cost Coordination

• Contact carriers when freight is ready; provide driving directions to carriers who call.
• Utilize freight tables to verify correct shipping costs.
• Process all UPS/FedEx shipments via computer.
• Schedule inbound freight from the mills.

Floor Operations

• Organize the shipping floor and stage daily shipments.
• Match paperwork with each shipment.
• Assist with loading and unloading trucks.
• Load and unload turnstiles for the 50” slitter and CTL.
• Assist with packaging of “As Is” orders.

Receiving & Quality

• Assist with receiving incoming freight.
• Support receiving and recording of non-conforming material.

Cross-Functional Support

• Assist the Sales department with shipping issues.
• Help customers resolve document issues—reprint, correct, and email.
• Assist the Invoicing Clerk when needed.
• Help train new personnel.

Housekeeping & Extras

• General housekeeping in accordance with Traffic/Shipping expectations—sweep and keep areas tidy.
• Keep scrap skids organized and deliver to the processor when a truckload is collected.
• Other Shipping/Receiving duties as assigned.

What you need to succeed

• High school diploma or GED.
• 3+ years of related experience/training or equivalent combination.
• Preferred proficiency with: tape measure, micrometer, calipers, crane, fork lift truck, bander, band cutters, and side loader.

Location: Northbrook, Illinois.