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Skytron LLC Freight Scheduler in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Join a team that improves patient outcomes, through innovative and flexible solutions to the acute care market! When you work for Skytron, you get so much more than a job, including:
- Comprehensive benefits package, beginning day one
- First shift only, Monday through Friday
- Annual Pool Bonus
- Paid vacation, personal days, and holidays
- 401(k) and Profit sharing
- Climate-controlled warehouse
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Onsite gym
- Family-owned and operated business
As a Freight Scheduler, you will:
- Schedule and communicate freight pick up, according to schedule and shipment dates, ensuring on-time delivery to customers
- Work with the Shipping and Receiving Supervisor to provide daily guidance to the team, scheduling and communicating daily work
- Update the schedule board, print off documents, and monitor all loads
- Ensure proper packaging, staging, and loading of all products shipped
- Review shipment routes and freight assignments to ensure accuracy and maximum savings
- Investigate and communicate all issues and errors, completing necessary steps for correction
- Effectively communicate issues and errors with internal teams, working together for resolution
- Assist with the picking, packaging, and staging of products for shipment
- Assist in loading shipments accurately, using appropriate equipment
- Maintains a clean, safe, and organized work environment
- Actively participate in continuous improvement projects and events
- Cross-train in all functions of the Shipping and Receiving department
- Demonstrate a willingness to help outside the department when instructed
- Additional related duties, as assigned
For success in this role, you will:
- Capably handle required administrative functions
- Verify work to ensure accurate results, requiring minimal rework
- Follow work instructions, procedures, safety guidelines, and company policies
- Meet productivity standards
- Listen to others, expressing ideas
- Be internally motivated and work well with minimal supervision
- Devise workable solutions or consult with secondary resources to devise solutions
- Have a HS Diploma or equivalent, with the ambition to further education
- Have prior experience scheduling freight shipments and using an RF scanner (desired)
- Have 1-3 years of material handling experience, with a general understanding of distribution
- Have the ability to obtain a hi-lo and picker license