Lead Dock/Shipping Specialist
Thermo Fisher
Summary
Join our dedicated Dock Specialist team in Unity Lab Services, where we ensure seamless logistics and support tailored to our customers' unique needs. We're seeking an organized Dock Specialist to manage shipping and receiving operations. You'll be the point of contact for customers and carriers, ensuring compliance and efficiency in all dock and shipping activities.
Job description
Discover Impactful Work
Join our dedicated Dock Specialist team in Unity Lab Services, where we ensure seamless logistics and support tailored to our customers' unique needs. We're seeking an organized Dock Specialist to manage shipping and receiving operations. You'll be the point of contact for customers and carriers, ensuring compliance and efficiency in all dock and shipping activities.
A day in the Life
- Generate, verify, and match shipping labels with incoming packages to ensure accuracy.
- Maintain awareness of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and ensure compliance.
- Identify order discrepancies and raise to appropriate personnel.
- Ensure all incoming and outgoing packages are scanned accurately for inventory control.
- Safely operate pallet jacks to move heavy packages and pallets.
- Ensure proper handling and placement of items to prevent damage.
- Coordinate the delivery of materials to the appropriate locations.
- NMR Refilling
- May perform other duties as assigned by management.
Keys to Success
Education: High school diploma or equivalent required.
Experience: 2-3 years of work experience in material handling: warehousing, shipping, and/or receiving is required. DOT/IATA Certification preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, Outlook, Teams). Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and a safety-first approach. Proficient in reading and interpreting shipping labels (DOT labeling), with the ability to be trained in the operation of pallet jacks and lift gates. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
Personal protective equipment, such as lab coats, coveralls, facemasks, and steel-toe shoes, is often required. The position requires regular lifting of 30-40 lbs (up to 50 lbs occasionally) and using equipment like pushcarts and forklifts to move up to 100 lbs. Standing, walking, reaching, and bending are frequent activities, sometimes in varied temperature environments. Dry Ice handling and NMR refilling. Overtime work may also be necessary.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- 2-3 years of work experience in material handling: warehousing, shipping, and/or receiving
- DOT/IATA Certification preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, Outlook, Teams)
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Safety-first approach
- Proficient in reading and interpreting shipping labels (DOT labeling)
- Ability to be trained in operation of pallet jacks and lift gates
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to lift 30-40 lbs regularly and up to 50 lbs occasionally
- Ability to stand, walk, reach, and bend frequently
- Ability to complete pre-employment screening including background check and drug test
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Accident Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefits
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, and increasing laboratory productivity. Thermo Fisher serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies worldwide. The company operates through four business segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Services.