Job Description: The Logistics Clerk ensures the timely shipping of products to customers; including picking, packing, and verifying customer orders. This position performs other shipping-related duties such as consolidating packages and preparing manifests.
Essential Functions:
โข Picks, packs, verifies, and processes customer orders to be shipped via local couriers or commercial carriers using various software suites
โข Creates and transmits carrier manifests using Worldlink
โข Processes paperwork and packages for delivery to other locations
โข Notifies Customer Care and Key Accounts personnel of incomplete/inaccurate customer addresses
โข Utilizes computers, printers and custom software in a Windows-based environment to complete tasks and ship final product.
โข Manages department inventory using ERP software
โข Troubleshoots problems, submits work orders accordingly, and communicates issues with management as necessary
โข dheres to safety regulations, SOPs, and contamination controls
โข Communicates with all levels of peers and management
โข Demonstrates behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values
โข Performs other duties as assigned by management
Education, Licensure, Certification, Registration
โข High school diploma or equivalent required
Professional Experience:
โข Proficiency in a variety of PC software programs with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office preferred
โข Previous shipping experience preferred
โข Working knowledge of commercial shipping practices preferred
Other Job Qualifications
โข bility to handle internal and customer materials properly and safely
โข bility to task-switch and work efficiently
โข bility to be flexible with work schedule as dictated by business needs
โข bility to maintain accuracy with attention to detail
โข bility to use aids and work instructions effectively to perform job functions
โข bility to interact professionally with customers, employees, vendors and all levels of management
โข bility to perform under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or situation in which working speed and sustained attention are make-or-break aspects of the job.
โข bility to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
โข bility to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers.
โข bility to accept responsibility for the direction, control or planning of an activity.
โข daptability to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances or standards.
โข bility to perform repetitive work or to perform continuously the same work, according to set procedures sequence or pace.
Physical Requirements:
Exert 20-50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or 10-15 lbs. of force frequently
Constant (67-100% of work day)
โข Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
โข Using Fingers/Grasping/Feeling: writing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers or palm and perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touch.
โข Repetitive Motion: substantial movements (motion) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Frequent (34-66% of work day)
โข Sitting: to assume a position in which the weight is largely supported by the buttocks, usually with the body vertical and the thighs horizontal.
โข Standing: maintaining an upright position.
โข Lifting: raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
โข Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal range; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when auscultating and percussing.
โข Bending: bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist and/or bending leg; bending legs at knee to come to rest or kneel.
โข Pushing/Pulling: using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward/using upper extremities to exert force in order to drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
Occasional (33% or less of work day)
โข Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
โข Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work- those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
โข Climbing: stairs, stools, ramps, ladders.
Visual Acuity:
โข Work requires close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
โข bility to read pertinent printed material and distinguish colors.
โข bility to accurately read measurements on equipment.
โข bility to prepare and read written documentation; use of computer.