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Job Title: Shipping Lead Loader

Job Description

The Shipping Lead Loader directs, assists, and ensures products are safely loaded for the customer. This role is responsible for the layout, quality, efficiency, and engagement of a shipping team. This role ensures the shipment is complete through the use of scanners, tablets, and computer programs.

Responsibilities

+ Ensure all safety guidance is followed for the team they oversee.

+ Take responsibility for the quality of products being loaded.

+ Properly identify, count, and record all materials as loaded.

+ Interpret and direct trailer loading as per the load layout configuration.

+ Properly load, pack, and secure all materials in trailers to ensure safety and prevent damage in transit.

+ Handle steel sections overhead.

+ Assume other duties as assigned by leadership.

Essential Skills

+ 1 to 2 years of leadership experience.

+ 1 to 2 years of shipping experience ensuring proper loading, packing, and securing of materials on trailers to prevent damage in transit.

+ Ability to read blueprints and layouts to ensure proper loading, packing and securing of materials.

+ Positively motivate, direct, and assist the team as they load each trailer.

+ Proficient with various computer applications, scanners, and tablets.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

+ Experience in general labor, unloading, loading, assembly, production, and forklift operation.

+ Physical capability to stand and walk throughout the entire shift and lift up to 45 lbs.

+ Ability to work in varying conditions, including noisy, high-temperature environments.

+ Manual dexterity to grip small objects and perform repetitive motions.

Work Environment

The work involves loading and staging trucks, handling materials under varying conditions, and performing clerical duties on a computer and/or tablet. The environment may be noisy and high-temperature, requiring appropriate safety measures and teamwork.

Why Work Here?

Join a dynamic team where your leadership and skills will be valued. Experience a collaborative work culture that fosters professional growth and offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies in a supportive environment.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Lawrence, Kansas.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $42120.00 - $45240.00/yr.

Benefits include Medical/Dental/Vision, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays from day one, tuition reimbursement, and a 401k plan (with an automatic 3% company contribution, regardless of your contribution after your first year of employment) among others.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Lawrence,KS.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 19, 2025.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.