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Job Details

Shipper-Receiver

Employer

Best Truck Service & Automotive (Peace River) Ltd

Date Posted

April 18, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Peace River, AB
  • Earnings $19.50 to $23.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 50 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Jun 11, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Best Truck Service & Automotive (Peace River) Ltd

Languages

English

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Trucking company

Tasks

  • Determine method of shipment
  • Schedule distribution of goods
  • Schedule transportation conveyances
  • Prepare bills of lading, invoices and other shipping documents
  • Assemble containers and crates
  • Inspect and verify incoming goods against invoices or other documents
  • Maintain internal record-keeping system
  • Record shortages and reject damaged goods
  • Route goods to appropriate storage areas
  • Pack goods to be shipped
  • Unpack goods received
  • Affix identifying information and shipping instructions on shipments
  • Oversee loading and unloading of goods
  • Supervise material handlers and helpers
  • Pay and receive payments for goods

Computer and technology knowledge

Inventory control software

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Dollies and hand trucks
  • Hoists or winches
  • Industrial lift trucks and fork-lifts
  • Loader
  • Pallet lifters

Security and safety

Bondable

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Large workload
  • Overtime required
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Tight deadlines

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

Bonus


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Shipper-Receiver is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Shippers and Receivers
METHODICAL

Interest in compiling information to maintain internal manual or computerized record-keeping systems; and in coding goods

OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating computers to keep records; and in unpacking and routing goods to appropriate storage areas; may operate fork lifts, hand trucks and other equipment to load, unload, transport and store goods

directive

Interest in overseeing loading and unloading of goods from trucks and other conveyances

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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