Shipping & Receiving Operator at Howmet Aerospace in Houston, TX

SHIPPING & RECEIVING OPERATOR Location: Houston, TX, United States Essential Functions: Howmet’s Houston Extrusions Plant focuses on converting specialty metals into value added extrusions for the aerospace and defense industries. The Shipping & Receiving Clerk is responsible for providing inventory support, material handling support, inventory facilitation, coordination, organization, planning and other similar activities involved with the day-to-day shipping and receiving processes. Role and Responsibilities: • Responsible for all daily functions of the Shipping & Receiving department • Operate forklifts and side loaders on a daily basis. • Be able to work flexible hours for critical or end of month shipments.  • Manage inventory of crates, pallets, or other shipping materials.  • Ensures all incoming and outgoing materials are traceable, damage free and are handled in a safe manner to preserve the quality of the product • Contributes to customer satisfaction by ensuring that finished material is shipped in a timely manner, free of damage, in accordance with (customer) release requirements. • Responsible for implementing and maintaining documented work instructions for safe and proper handling of incoming materials. • Responsible for verification of all incoming supply shipments to ensure correct delivery.  • Responsible for implementing and maintaining documented work instructions for proper loading of trucks in accordance with State and Federal regulations.  • Responsible for ensuring, that departmental employees are properly trained to correctly process all shipping documents (Bill of Lading, Packing List, Shipping Letters of Intent, etc.) • Communicates daily with the Operations Manager and internal personnel from Sales, Maintenance, Operations and Quality Control in order to help resolve any problems and help achieve company goals. • Maintains clean work area • Ensure work is in compliance with of all site safety policies • Complies with all EHS rules required for the work environment. • Perform other duties as assigned. basic qualifications: • HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED • MINIMUM 3 YEARS OF SHIPPING & RECEIVING EXPERIENCE • Must be able to obtain an in-house mobile equipment certification, including use of forklift and boom lift preferred qualifications: • Excellent communication; both written and orally. • Strong PC skills; MS Office, Excel  • Experience with SAP • Must be able to lift 50 lbs.