Shipping Lead
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Shipping Lead
Lead the team that keeps customer shipments moving. As Shipping Lead, youll combine hands-on leadership and organization to help finished products reach the right destination on time and damage-free. When you join our Hood Container Houston team you will be supporting one of the largest corrugated box facilities service East Texas.
Shifts:
- First Shift (6 Am - 2 PM, Monday - Friday)
- Second Shift (2 PM 10 PM, Monday Friday), $2/hr Shift Differential
- Third Shift (10 PM 6 AM, Monday Friday), $1/hr Shift Differential
What Youll Do
- Coordinate shipment preparation, staging, unloading, palletizing, banding, wrapping, and loading to ensure freight reaches the correct destination on time and damage-free.
- Route and assign local deliveries, transfers, and pickups.
- Lead and coach team members, ensuring they are on time, ready for assigned work, and equipped to perform tasks safely.
- Communicate shipping delays, product damage, or shortages to Customer Service and management.
- Complete shipping documentation, administrative paperwork, and data entry accurately.
- Lead and complete unitized inventory counts, cycle counts, and related reports; confirm results with the Shipping Manager.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe shipping area.
- Support additional duties and projects as assigned.
What Youll Bring
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Experience leading and coaching a team in a shipping, manufacturing, or warehouse environment to meet shipping and safety objectives.
- Computer proficiency to complete shipping paperwork and data entry.
- Proficiency in operating the equipment required for shipping functions.
- Ability to work inside the facility in temperatures ranging from 40 to 120 degrees for several continuous hours.
- Ability to lift, push, and pull 50 lbs.
Here's why you'll love working at Hood Container:
- Competitive pay & benefits: We offer a competitive hourly wage, a quarterly bonus program, and a comprehensive benefits package to keep you healthy and happy.
- Continuous learning: We invest in training and development to help you grow your skills and advance your career.
- Caring & Empowering Company Culture: Supportive & collaborative team dedicated to seeing you unbox your potential to help make a difference & make customers happy.
- Growing: Company in a Sustainable Industry: Consider a Future in Corrugated Packaging
Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens and customers we serve. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.