Logistics Assistant

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The Logistics Assistant is responsible for preparing all paperwork necessary for the billing and shipping of all outbound shipments and to assist the Shipping Manager whenever possible.

Logistics Assistant responsibilities including the following:

• Must follow Ahlstrom's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
• Work within the Shipment Maintenance System and arrange to print 1) load lists, 2) pick lists, and 3) building tickets. As well as additions and deletions to all of the above.
• Breakdown computer-generated pick lists, pack lists, and tickets and reassemble them according to load/shipment number.
• Work within the Load System to create bills of lading, packing lists, export papers, etc. for each shipment.
• Make appropriate entries into the trailer location log.
• Receive and give information concerning inbound and out-bound freight, trailers, departure times, load status, etc.
• Work within the warehouse computer system in order to update locations, check on stock availability, etc.
• Prepare bills of lading, LTL bills of lading, airfreight bills, load lists, etc.
• Maintain and update Product Return Logs (RFI’s), check returned products, and attach appropriate paperwork to returned products.
• Answer calls in the absence of the Shipping Superintendent or Shipping Supervisor.
• Contacting Set-Up Clerks when there is a problem or a question about what is required by Sales and/or our customer.
• Communicate needs to the Executive Secretary or to Data Processing.
• Write in the appropriate information on the daily truck schedule.
• Rotating through all primary locations verity the carton count of each location and make changes as needed
• Send special information required by customers. (Such as faxes of load lists to brokerages).
  
  

Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our vision is to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders.

Our three divisions, Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions. Our net sales in 2023 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 7,000 people.

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Ahlstrom’s manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, must be adhered to, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.