Shipping Specialist

Role: Shipping Specialist

Location: Fairport

Excellent Pay and Benefits

Qualitrol employees receive a competitive salary, 28 days of paid time off (includes PTO and Holidays), great health benefits that are effective your first day, flexible working hours, up to 100% education reimbursement towards a degree, and 401k matching (vesting immediately). We have annual reviews and career development planning to help get you to the next level in your career. Our family friendly environment also provides paid Maternity/Paternity leave, Adoption leave, Life Insurance and more.

You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and growth opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.

Your Impact

Here's where you'll demonstrate your proficiencies:

The Shipping Specialist, under moderate supervision, provides administrative, transactional & operational support to ensure the timely shipment of all out-going product and materials.

Prepares required and appropriate documentation, maintains records and coordinates logistics for all international and domestic product shipments that require additional documentation for transport.

• Schedules and coordinates both domestic and international freight forwarder transactions as required.
• Ensure that the most appropriate freight forwarders and carriers are selected in order to achieve company target and objectives in quality, delivery and cost.
• Maintains shipping records, including providing tracking or shipping history information to customers on request.
• Review open customer orders, coordinate completion with manufacturing to meet the customer shipping schedule and satisfy the requested ship dates.
• Ensure proper revenue recognition by completing the final transaction as appropriate and generate the customer invoicing upon final dispatch. Audit waiting-to-ship reports daily to ensure all invoicing is completed.
• Coordinate the shipping of freight by contacting appropriate freight carriers.
• Shop rates for prepaid shipments to ensure that best possible freight rates are being utilized.
• Works to resolve any issues related to the final customs clearance associated with any export and/or import of Qualitrol materials as required.
• Formally document new or changed procedures. Identify who requires training and execute training if needed.
• Maintain knowledge of current international import/export regulatory requirements. Update applicable standard operating procedures as necessary.
• Distribute by fax, email, courier and file documents related to export shipments or other shipments requiring additional documentation.
• Assist on a backup basis, the Shipping and Receiving areas to complete daily standard work including, but not limited to, loading/unloading trucks, receive, count, kit and deliver and/or stock material in the destination location, pickup packaged items from cell locations and process for shipment, package material and over-pack cartons when required, prepare skids and cartons for transport.
• Acts as Shipping and Receiving group leader in the absence of the Shipping Coordinator and/or Shipping and Receiving Supervisor.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• HS/GED required
• Associates degree preferred
• Solid knowledge and understanding or US Export Administration Regulations a plus
• Working knowledge of export document preparation a plus
• Working knowledge of carrier supplied and internet-based shipping software – UPS Worldship, DHL & FedEx Internet shipping is a must.
• Oracle experience a plus
• Pay Range for position: $20-$23/hr

Working Conditions

• Regularly exerting up to 20 lbs. of force and occasionally up to 50 lbs.
• Bending body downward and forward at the waist.
• Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive's essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at

We Are Fortive

Fortive's essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.

National: The hourly range for this position is $ $28.08

Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.