Shipper

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- or equivalent experience
- **Work setting**:

- Warehouse
- Manufacture
- **Tasks**:

- Determine method of shipment
- Schedule transportation conveyances
- Prepare bills of lading, invoices and other shipping documents
- Assemble containers and crates
- Maintain internal record-keeping system
- Route goods to appropriate storage areas
- Pack goods to be shipped
- Affix identifying information and shipping instructions on shipments
- Oversee loading and unloading of goods
- **Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Forklift Operator Certification
- **Computer and technology knowledge**:

- Database software
- Inventory control software
- Spreadsheet
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS Word
- MS Windows
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
- **Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Dollies and hand trucks
- Hoists or winches
- Industrial lift trucks and fork-lifts
- Powered crane
- Scanner
- **Security and safety**:

- Bondable
- **Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- **Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- **Weight handling**:

- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- **Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
- **Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- **Screening questions**:

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
- **Employment terms options**:

- Evening
- Night
- **Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
- **Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
- **Financial benefits**:

- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- **Other benefits**:

- Learning/training paid by employer
- **Support for persons with disabilities**:

- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
- Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities
- **Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- Does not require Canadian work experience
- **Support for youths**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
- Offers resources to help mature workers plan their retirement (for example: financial planning, access to pension and benefits, lifestyle adjustments, etc.)
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities