Shipping Assistant

Why Great Northern

Privately held, Great Northern Instore, a division of Great Northern Corporation, is a Multi-Million Dollar, Designer, Engineering, and Manufacturer of Custom Permanent Point Purchase Displays and Retail Fixtures.

Great Northern is committed to making a difference in the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities in which we live and work. Many of our team members were referred to by their friends and families who are already a part of the Great Northern team.

The Benefits of Great Northern:

• Competitive 401K match and a historically generous profit-sharing retirement savings contribution
• Paid vacation during your first year of employment
• Medical PPO, HSA, dental, and vision insurance
• Wellness Program
• Life Insurance
• Health fitness and tuition reimbursements
• Opportunities to advance your career and compensation level.
• Annual increases
• Competitive wages.

Pay/Schedule:

•    Commensurate with Experience
•    Work schedule from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM 

Position Summary:

This role demands a proactive individual with excellent organizational and communication skills, capable of managing various shipping tasks and collaborating seamlessly with team members.

Main responsibilities:

• Reviewing daily shipping reports with dock personnel
• Confirming qualities being shipped
• Verifying order information in Visual and processing all shipping documents for UPS and LTL/TL carriers, determining proper freight class, and scheduling carriers for pick-ups
• Providing directions to drivers upon arrival
• Communicate with the Client Services team on shipping directions
• Create and Process batch shipping for UPS and FedEx
• Create Mail Merge for large LTL distributions
• Request Proof of Delivery for shipments
• Supporting dock personnel when necessary for labeling, loading, collating, etc.

Requirements:

• Ability to speak, write, and read English

• Collaborate well with other team members
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, working environment (including the ability to expedite shipments on an as-needed basis).
• Good math skills and detail-oriented
• Computer literate- (experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, process orders, email correspondence, tracing, and rate quotes.)
• Work schedule from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM

• Learning to drive a forklift and powered hand jack

Opportunities for Growth

You will have the opportunity to gain experience, and new skills and acquire new knowledge that can be applied to grow into new positions with higher pay. Furthermore, you can grow your career with Great Northern through advancement opportunities available at our facilities locally and nationally.

Expectation

To be successful your teammates will depend on you to have pride in your work, be on time, work safely, work effectively with others, be optimistic, take ownership of your responsibilities, and look for continuous improvement opportunities.

Great Northern is an equal opportunity at-will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin.

Great Northern is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.