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Job Description
Job Description
Salary : Summary / Objective
Advancing Eco Agriculture is a rapidly growing company in the specialty plant nutrition and regenerative agriculture industry. We are seeking a Shipping Coordinator to add to our team to help serve our customers, production and warehouse efforts at our Aurora, Colorado location. As the Shipping Coordinator, you will be responsible coordinating the entire shipping process within our Aurora facility, including coordinating the movement of inbound and outbound orders, preparing shipping documents, tracking shipments, resolving shipping issues, and communicating with customers and vendors to ensure timely deliveries.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintains a safety first mentality in accordance with company safety standards
- Receives goods and verifies the quality and count of all items unloaded from railroad cars, trucks and trailers; checks against suppliers count and immediately reports discrepancies to carriers, supervisor, and purchasing officer per company policy.
- Verifies and records all items loaded for shipments
- Carefully and accurately maintains shipping records for requested categories including goods
- Returned, dunnage, and returnable pallets
- Maintains database of shipment data to ensure that customer orders are updated and that appropriate billing documents are provided to accounting or other associated departments as required
- Notifies supervisor of major discrepancies, over-shipments, or substitutions
- Prepares bills of lading and dray tickets for shipments
- Completes information on damage claims for in-transit damage
- Transports materials on a shipping dock with a hand truck or other vehicle as needed
- Loads trucks using a forklift
- Pulls and Packs orders according to order picking sheet
- Banding and wrapping finished orders in boxes and on pallets
- Collaborates with manufacturing and purchasing departments
- Prepares all documentation needed for shipping including bills of lading, packing lists, dock
- Receipts, certificates of origin, and invoice
Required Skills / Abilities
Supervisory responsibilities
Work environment
Physical demands
Travel required
Preferred education and experience
Benefits