Office/Administration - Logistics Clerk

Job Description: The Logistics Clerk ensures the timely shipping of products to customers; including picking, packing, and verifying customer orders. This position performs other shipping-related duties such as consolidating packages and preparing manifests.

Essential Functions:
• Picks, packs, verifies, and processes customer orders to be shipped via local couriers or commercial carriers using various software suites
• Creates and transmits carrier manifests using Worldlink
• Processes paperwork and packages for delivery to other locations
• Notifies Customer Care and Key Accounts personnel of incomplete/inaccurate customer addresses
• Utilizes computers, printers and custom software in a Windows-based environment to complete tasks and ship final product.
• Manages department inventory using ERP software
• Troubleshoots problems, submits work orders accordingly, and communicates issues with management as necessary
• dheres to safety regulations, SOPs, and contamination controls
• Communicates with all levels of peers and management
• Demonstrates behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values
• Performs other duties as assigned by management

Education, Licensure, Certification, Registration
• High school diploma or equivalent required

Professional Experience:
• Proficiency in a variety of PC software programs with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office preferred
• Previous shipping experience preferred
• Working knowledge of commercial shipping practices preferred

Other Job Qualifications
• bility to handle internal and customer materials properly and safely
• bility to task-switch and work efficiently
• bility to be flexible with work schedule as dictated by business needs
• bility to maintain accuracy with attention to detail
• bility to use aids and work instructions effectively to perform job functions
• bility to interact professionally with customers, employees, vendors and all levels of management
• bility to perform under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or situation in which working speed and sustained attention are make-or-break aspects of the job.
• bility to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
• bility to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers.
• bility to accept responsibility for the direction, control or planning of an activity.
• daptability to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances or standards.
• bility to perform repetitive work or to perform continuously the same work, according to set procedures sequence or pace.

Physical Requirements:
Exert 20-50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or 10-15 lbs. of force frequently
Constant (67-100% of work day)
• Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Using Fingers/Grasping/Feeling: writing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers or palm and perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touch.
• Repetitive Motion: substantial movements (motion) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Frequent (34-66% of work day)
• Sitting: to assume a position in which the weight is largely supported by the buttocks, usually with the body vertical and the thighs horizontal.
• Standing: maintaining an upright position.
• Lifting: raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal range; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when auscultating and percussing.
• Bending: bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist and/or bending leg; bending legs at knee to come to rest or kneel.
• Pushing/Pulling: using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward/using upper extremities to exert force in order to drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
Occasional (33% or less of work day)
• Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work- those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Climbing: stairs, stools, ramps, ladders.

Visual Acuity:
• Work requires close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• bility to read pertinent printed material and distinguish colors.
• bility to accurately read measurements on equipment.
• bility to prepare and read written documentation; use of computer.