Shipper - Northbrook
About this role
Schedule: 9 pm - 5 am CST
The Shipper works in a fast-paced environment preparing items for shipment by performing the following duties:
- Physically moves bread/bun stacks to shipping dock using two-wheel car to stage product.
- Repetitive use of upper extremities to break down stack of product to be brought to designated area of building.
- Unloads semi-trailer and routes incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with lead to rectify damages and shortages.
- Efficiently works within a busy dispatch department.
- Works well with shipping team to complete orders in a timely manner.
- Must have reliable transportation and attendance to meet employer's attendance standards for 24/7 depot facility.
Required qualifications, skills, and experience:
- Worker must be able to constantly stand and walk on concrete floors and trailer beds.
- Frequent pushing/pulling of transport racks and bread trays.
- Frequent bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, lifting, carrying is required.
- Frequent to constant handling and grasping of bakery product trays, transport racks and boxes.
- Frequently lift and/or move items up to 50 lbs.
Company at a glance
Alpha Baking Company, Inc. was established in 1979 with the acquisition of the Mary Ann Baking Company in Chicago. Founded in 1935, Mary Ann is best known for the ever-popular Chicago style poppy seed hot dog bun. In 1981, Alpha Baking purchased S. Rosen’s Baking Company, a Chicago staple and baker of Jewish hearth rye breads and variety rolls since 1909. Through the years, Alpha Baking has continued to grow with the acquisition of Kreamo Bakers in South Bend, Indiana in 1979, National Baking Company in Chicago, Illinois in 1997, and Natural Ovens Bakery in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 2007.
For decades, food industry leaders have called on Alpha Baking Company, Inc. to craft solutions to complex and unique baking projects. Our modern, high-production facilities link old-world knowledge and baking experience with today’s technology. If you have a special need, we can bring you a level of experience, responsiveness, and technical expertise that is unmatched in the baking industry. Let us customize your foodservice operation with our extensive par-baked and frozen programs.
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