Description
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Full Time Position:$17.00
Schedule: M-F 4:15pm -1:00am
Possible mandatory overtime until 3am and occasional Saturdays.
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance - DAY ONE!
- 3 weeks of vacation your firstFULL year!
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401K Matching after 30 days of employment
- Employee Discounts
- Referral Program ($500-$1,000)
- Climate Controlled work environment
ReaderLink is the largest full-service distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to non-trade channel booksellers in North America, including the biggest names in retail across multiple retail channels. We are the number one book distributor in the U.S. with over $1 billion in sales, through the distribution of 300 million books per year to over 50,000 store locations nationwide.
Summary
: The Shipper position handles, organizes, and verifies outgoing shipments and prepares items for shipment to customer standards and specifications.
Essential Functions:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position:
- Regular, reliable attendance is required as work cannot be performed remotely.
- Receive constructive performance feedback
- Obtain and sort orders by placing them on respective pallets.
- Load the appropriate trailer with the completed orders and make sure that orders are on the truck before a designated shipping time.
- Shrink wraps completed pallets of product to secure articles for shipment.
- Operate pallet jack to move and organize pallets.
- Label all shipping pallets with appropriate shipping labels
- Follow safety rules for personal protections and the protection of others, including maintaining a clean and safe work environment.
- Perform quality audits on shipping cartons
- Run and maintain print and apply area
- Package and tape all shipping cartons
- Floor stack cartons on specific customer trailers
- Create bill of lading and provide correspondent packing slip
- Ensure accurate weight specifications for each outgoing carton
Non-Essential Functions:
- Other duties may be assigned, directed, or requested.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Minimum of 1-2 years' experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
- Must have basic computer skills.
- Knowledge of computerized inventory control system preferred.
Physical Requirements: The requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee:
- Must be able to stand up to 8 to 10 hours in a day.
- Must be able to walk up to 8 - 10 hours a day
- Will occasionally climbs.
- Will occasionally push/pull carton train of boxed product weighing up to 200 pounds on assisted conveyor line.
- Will frequently bend, stoop, reach up and out, crouch, kneel, and push/pull from 5-50 pounds.
- Will frequently carry up to 35 pounds and occasionally carry up to 50 pounds.
- Will frequently lift up to 50 pounds.
- Will frequently have repetitive foot movement.
- Will frequently have repetitive hand/arm movements for simple reaching, simple and firm grasping and/or fine hand manipulation.
- Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- Regularly required to stand; use hand to finger, handle or feel objects; and reach with hands and arms.
Language Skills:
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, in English.
Mathematical Skills:
- Ability to add and subtract basic math
Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- The work performed is in a warehouse environment
- The employee is frequently exposed to vibrations and dust and will be working around moving machinery
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels
- Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment
ReaderLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. EOE/Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran.
ReaderLink is committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities and veterans. If you need an accommodation to assist with completing the electronic application, please email your request to [emailprotected], or call: (708) 356-3737.
ReaderLink
life insurance, vision insurance, 401(k)
Sep 09, 2025