Job Description

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Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

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Available shift: 1st

Brief Summary

The Shipping Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, consolidating, and communicating shipment needs thru the shipping department to ensure strategic and timely customer shipments. The incumbent will provide support for inventory, cycle counting and communication to various departments. The incumbent will collaborate with both internal and external customers in order to meet the needs of the customers and provide timely transportation as well as accurate product shipping. The Shipping Coordinator will provide production cards and print tags to guide the production floor on customer/shipments needs. The incumbent will also be responsible for providing Valmont Sales and Customers with certification specs for product.

Essential Functions

• Creates and plans each truck load that is shipped from the plant

• Consolidates and provides routing to ensure efficient loads are being shipped

• Creates picklists and bol (ship papers) for all loads that are shipping

• Investigates and solves transactional errors to ensure accurate storeroom data, as well as discrepancy between sales, shipping and invoicing coordinator

• Ensures accurate transactions for end of month production and shipping

• Collaborate with auditing department on cycle counts to ensure accuracy at all levels

• Ensures inventory transactions are accurate and timely including rejected pieces, lost part forms, and transfer sheets

• Researches and provides records for certification of product needed for Customers and Sales Department

• Uses Cyperquery, QAD and TMS to provide various reports

• Data entry and reporting for various departments including production and sales, daily shipping dollars

• This position reports into the Shipping Supervisor and does not have any direct or indirect reports

• This role does not require any travel

Other Important Details

• Responsible for printing production cards and ship tags

• Scanning various documents using laser fiche

• Provide assistance/back up to Release Coordinator, and other departments including Production Control, Purchasing and Receiving as needed

• Builds collaboration between various departments to ensure strategic and logistical needs are met in a timely fashion

• Partners with the Shippers on production floor to access and guide the truck loading process as necessary

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma with 4+ years of work/educational experience or associate's degree

• Proven public relations skills both written and verbally

• Ability to operate standard office equipment

• Efficient with Microsoft Office Suite

• Proven experience with planning and processing transportation logistics

Highly Qualified

• Working knowledge of QAD, TMS, Radley, Cyberquery

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

• 401k retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off

• Employer paid life insurance

• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

• Work Life Support

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email EEOCompliance@Valmont.com.