Part Time Operations Clerk / Check in Clerk

Oak Harbor Freight Lines is an established, successful regional trucking company covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona & California. As a premier carrier offering superior service, we are always interested in exceptional people with excellent skills who strive to always achieve their best. This position involves assisting various departments at the terminal to include OS&D, Dock and Operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Competent operation of material handling equipment
• Management of paperwork: i.e., check of accuracy and completion of delivery receipts, bills of ladings, trailer manifests, counting freight, accuracy of hazardous material shipments, special loading, and handling instructions.
• Ability to meet the Company’s reliability standards for employees; to include dependability.
• Availability to work various shifts during the week to accommodate business needs.
• Review all previous day deliveries for short, overages, damages, and refusals.
• Investigate packages without identification to ensure they are directed to the appropriate customer.
• Conduct a damaged good assessment, contact shipper, schedule external inspection, and obtain disposition from shipper based on outcome of investigation.
• May work with Drivers to resolve freight claims.
• After thorough investigation, report all unidentified freight to the claims team.
• Assist the claims team with salvage freight.
• Other office duties as assigned.

Skills, Experience and Educational Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• A High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent is strongly preferred.
• Previous warehouse or like experience strongly preferred.
• Forklift experience is strongly preferred.
• Simple arithmetic, weight and/or measuring is required.
• The ability to communicate in a positive, effective manner with customers, co-workers, and dispatch/managers.
• Experience in an LTL operation preferred.
• Basic English language proficiency (reading, writing and verbal) is required.
• LTL experience and knowledge of terminology and processes in shipping strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Ability to work across several different Oak Harbor departments to resolve issues.
• Strong PC proficiency and experience using MS Office products. AS400 experience preferred but not required.

Equal Opportunity Employer