Shipping Manager

Job Description

We have an immediate opening for a qualified Shipping Manager / Heavy-Duty Forklift Operator. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for coordinating daily shipping schedules, managing yard and loading operations, ensuring materials are properly staged, loaded, and delivered according to project timelines. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and communication skills, a solid understanding of structural steel products and proven experience leading a shipping or yard crew in a fabrication environment.

Responsibilities:

Ensure crew members are lined out for the day

Ensure procedures in yard are maintained

Ensure material coming out of the Paint Department is organized

Monitor loads are being built on the ground correctly

Check schedule to ensure timeliness of loads

Confirm loads are to be completed 24 hrs. before ship date

Material should be facing up

Confirm shipping tag has been issued to Shipping Department and Field Personnel 2-days before shipping

Confirm Project Coordinator has created a separate ship tag for FOB items

Receive (check-in only) structural steel and other material from trailers.

Designated forklift operator will offload material

Ensure the PO (receiving list) matches material being offloaded

Be sure to sign and date delivery tags before turning into the office

Operate forklift in a safe manner

Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications:

10 years of managerial experience in the structural steel industry

10 years of experience operating a heavy-duty forklift

Must be dependable and able to delegate responsibility

Must possess leadership skills and communicate well

Must be able and willing to be trained in different production areas

knowledge of Tekla a plusCompany Description

Weldway Steel Fab provides stand-alone structural steel fabrication for new design-specific multi-story buildings, seismic upgrades and retrofits of existing structures, and miscellaneous metals applications. We are a full-service structural steel fabricator production facility Located in Oakdale, CA,

Full-time