About the Role
Supervises and coordinates all outbound shipping activities to ensure customer orders are picked, staged, verified, and shipped accurately, securely, and on time. Provides direct hands-on support to the warehouse team, safeguards against fraudulent or unauthorized pickups, and partners cross-functionally to drive on-time end-of-month order releases and shipments.
Responsibilities
- Leads team to process and oversee outbound shipments for customer delivery, ensuring orders are picked, packed, staged, verified, and released accurately and on schedule.
- Works closely with customers and internal teams to understand and meet specific customer shipping requirements, routing guides, labeling, documentation, and delivery windows.
- Enforces shipping and verification procedures with a high level of attention to detail to confirm carrier, order, and pickup authenticity, preventing fraudulent or unauthorized pickups.
- Verifies driver identification, purchase order/BOL, seal integrity, and pickup authorization against approved documentation before releasing any shipment.
- Provides direct hands-on support to the warehouse team through active forklift operation, maintaining a valid forklift certification and modeling safe material-handling practices.
- Partners with Quality, Operations, and Customer Service to build and drive a clear action plan for end-of-month order releases and shipping, ensuring monthly targets are met.
- Coordinates daily shipping priorities, dock scheduling, and carrier appointments to maximize on-time delivery and dock efficiency.
- Reviews and confirms shipping documentation, including bills of lading, packing lists, ASNs, and customer-specific paperwork for accuracy and compliance.
- Ensures compliance with company SOPs (including shipping procedures), FDA/cGMP, DOT, and customer requirements for all outbound freight.
- Supervises, schedules, trains, and develops shipping personnel; sets priorities and reassigns work to meet the shipping schedule.
- Monitors and reports shipping KPIs (on-time shipment, accuracy, dock-to-stock, and month-end release performance) and recommends corrective actions.
- Maintains a clean, organized, and safe shipping and staging area, ensuring adherence to 5S, safety, and housekeeping standards.
- Investigates and resolves shipping discrepancies, damages, and customer complaints, and drives root-cause corrective actions.
- Coordinates with Planning, Inventory Control, and Customer Service on order status, changes, and delivery commitments.
- Supports physical inventory, cycle counts, and inventory accuracy for finished goods staged for shipment, as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High School diploma required; college degree preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of shipping, warehouse, or distribution experience.
- Minimum of 1 year in a supervisory or lead role.
- Valid forklift certification required (or ability to obtain and maintain certification).
- Demonstrated hands-on forklift proficiency.
Skills
- Working knowledge of shipping documentation, carrier requirements, BOLs, and customer routing guides.
- Familiarity with FDA/cGMP, DOT, and quality/safety compliance in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to enforce security and verification procedures consistently.
- Good logic, mathematic, and writing skills.
- Well organized and capable of working under pressure.
- Capable of setting priorities and re-arranging same to meet the shipping schedule.
- Proficient with ERP/WMS systems (e.g., QAD).
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Outlook.
Location
- North America
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years of shipping, warehouse, or distribution experience
- 1+ year in a supervisory or lead role
Education Level
- High School diploma
- College degree preferred
About the Company
- KDC is a network of best-in-class custom formulators and manufacturers of color cosmetics, skincare, haircare, bath & body, fragrance, deodorant, home, health, industrial, and auto care products.
- KDC delivers high-touch innovation, operational excellence, and speed to market to well-known and emerging beauty, personal, and specialty companies from coast to coast.
- KDC has its head office in Longueuil, Québec.
- KDC has 10 operating facilities located throughout North America.
- The company employs nearly 4,800 talented and dedicated employees in North America.
Equal Opportunity
- KDC-ONE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Employment with KDC-ONE Company is at-will, meaning that either the employee or KDC-ONE Company may terminate employment at any time, or for any reason consistent with applicable state or federal law.
- KDC-One requires the successful completion of a drug and/or alcohol test as a condition of employment.
