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Shipping Clerk

Wabtec
Plainfield, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Sept 2025
💰 $42,000/yr

About the role

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Who will you be working with?

You will be working with a new distribution team, working to build a culture of dependability and creating a culture where customers rely on you for unyielding quality. 

How will you make a difference?

As a driver for the distribution team, you will be responsible for ensuring product is pick or put away accurately. You will use either a stand-up reach truck or order picker to accomplish this.  Your work will go to help keep the world’s transportation system keeps moving.  The material that we distribute truly has a global impact and you can help us be successful. Starting base rate $21.80

What do we want to know about you?

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Ability to use warehouse management systems such as Oracle, Manhattan, Blue Yonder etc.
  • MS Office Skills

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge of Safety procedures and practices
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule with overtime as needed
  • Forklift experience is extremely preferred
  • Able to learn new skills or equipment
  • Prior PC experience with ORACLE or equivalent
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the customer in mind

What will your typical day look like?

  • Coordinate external and intercompany requests for shipping and receiving documents
  • Coordinate logistics communications between customers, customer service, warehouse, and freight carriers
  • Interface with Customer Service Representatives regarding shipment information
  • Tracking of expected shipments
  • Dock scheduling
  • Fulfill requests for shipment POD’s
  • Track and analyze mis-shipments to ensure they don’t occur again
  • Track and analyze customer on-time delivery
  • Maintain monthly reporting deliverables
  • Execute daily processes in ERP system to assist warehouse shipping and receiving
  • File paperwork daily
  • Process employee hours in time and attendance program
  • Answer and direct telephone calls
  • Monitor and direct incoming mail; prepare outgoing mail for pickup
  • Greet visitors to the plant and direct visitors to the correct location
  • Make travel arrangements for staff as needed
  • Organize and facilitate workflow to ensure a productive workplace
  • Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors
  • Backup purchasing and warehouse personnel when needed
  • Create or modify work orders and sales orders when needed
  • Manage inventory of office supplies; requisition supplies and equipment from purchasing department when needed
  • Operate office machinery such as computers, photocopiers, and printers; perform light maintenance and troubleshooting

What about the physical demands of the job?

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit throughout the work day
  • Employee is regularly required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occa

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