Wonderful Citrus is North America’s leading integrated grower, shipper and packer of fresh citrus, including clementines/mandarins, navel and Valencia oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, and other citrus varieties. Wonderful Citrus farms more than 74,000 acres of fresh citrus and has supplier relationships around the world to ensure a year-round supply. Our citrus can be found in all channels of distribution, with our consumer brands most visible in the produce department of grocery stores across the globe under our flagship consumer brands, Wonderful Halos Mandarins, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, and Wonderful Sweet Scarletts Texas Red Grapefruit.
Job DescriptionOverview:
Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in verifying and keeping records on incoming and outgoing shipments, and preparing items for shipment
Here's what you'll do:
- Studies shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, orders, and other records to determine shipping priorities, work assignments, and shipping methods required to meet shipping and receiving schedules.
- Oversee incoming and outgoing shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and condition of shipments.
- Determines space requirements and position of shipment in trucks and lays out position of shipment.
- Determines legal load limits of trucks. Inspects loading operations to ensure compliance with shipping specifications.
- Inspects material handling equipment for defects and notifies maintenance.
- Directs movement of shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage and work areas.
- Prepares bills of lading. Issues written and oral instruction to subordinates.
- Maintains productive work environment by resolves employee grievances, providing constructive feedback and setting attainable expectations.
- Determines Shipping and Receiving hours that is tailored to seasonality’s and volumes.
- Report any order outages and inventory discrepancies.
- Give plant managers vision of upcoming pack needs for major retailers.
- Work with sales to keep a safety stock in inventory.
- Coordinate with shipping the rotation of inventory.
- Schedules weekly workforce to ensure operational coverage.
- Provides and ensures well Customer Service to all internal and external customers.
- Implements processes that improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Provides and ensures a safe work environment and reports any outages immediately.
Qualifications
Here's what you'll bring to the table:
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- 1-3 years' experience in shipping, receiving or warehouse.
- Experience in supervising others.
- Ability to read and write in English.
- Ability to do general math.
- Must have basic computer literacy.
- Customer service oriented.
- Bilingual in English/Spanish desired.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and climb or balance.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Wonderful's dedication to you:
- Exclusive Product Discounts – Enjoy special savings on our products as part of our team!
- Growth & Career Advancement – Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
- Professional Mentorship – Learn from experienced professionals and grow your network.
- May include discretionary housing assistance.
Why Choose Wonderful?
Wonderful Citrus is part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $6 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world. Its iconic brands include FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, Teleflora, and JUSTIN and Lewis Cellars wines. The Wonderful Company’s connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back in its DNA.
To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products, and its core values, please visit wonderful.com, or follow The Wonderful Company on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. To learn more about the company’s corporate social responsibility impact, visit csr.wonderful.com.
Wonderful Citrus and The Wonderful Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and with opportunities for advancement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.
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Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 1-3 years of experience in shipping, receiving, or warehouse operations
- Experience supervising others
- Ability to read and write in English
- Ability to perform general math and apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions
- Basic computer literacy
- Customer-service orientation
- Bilingual English and Spanish
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business, technical, and governmental materials
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the public
- Ability to stand, walk, sit, talk, hear, use hands, and climb or balance during job duties
- Ability to occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds
- Required close, distance, color, peripheral vision, and focus-adjustment abilities
What We Do
Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Wonderful Company is a privately held $5 billion company dedicated to harvesting health around the world through its iconic consumer brands. The company’s 10,000 employees worldwide are committed to bringing consumers everywhere the freshest, most wholesome pistachios, citrus and pomegranates; bottling the finest water and wines; and creating colorful bouquets that are sure to touch the heart. This commitment is reflected in the company’s market share: Wonderful Pistachios® is America’s No. 1 tree nut and America’s fastest-growing snack; Wonderful® Halos® is the No. 1 mandarin orange in America; POM Wonderful® is the No. 1 100% pomegranate brand in America; FIJI® Water is America’s No. 1 premium imported bottled water brand; JUSTIN® Wine has the No. 1 Cabernet Sauvignon in California; and Teleflora® is the world’s leading floral delivery service. The Wonderful Company’s connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back at its core. The company has a long-standing commitment to corporate social responsibility, including more than $1 billion invested in environmental sustainability; $65 million in charitable giving, education initiatives, and innovative health and wellness programs each year; and $143 million toward the construction of two charter school campuses in California’s Central Valley. To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products and its core values, visit www.wonderful.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To view the current Corporate Social Responsibility report, visit www.wonderful.com/csr.
