Contract Logistics 1st Shift Warehouse Specialist (Receiving)

It''s more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you're leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers' products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse-it helps shape the flow of global trade.

At Kuehne+Nagel, the Receiving Warehouse Associate is responsible for managing inbound freight, carefully verifying inventory accuracy, and maintaining a safe working environment. Key duties include processing incoming goods efficiently, updating inventory databases accurately, and thoroughly inspecting items for quality and compliance. The position operates Monday through Friday, from 5:00 am to 1:30 pm, with compensation provided on a weekly basis.

How you create impact

A Kuehne+Nagel receiving or warehouse associate handles inbound freight, verifies and sorts inventory, and maintains safety compliance. Key duties involve processing incoming goods, updating database systems, and inspecting items for damage

Core Responsibilities:

• Inbound Processing: Unload incoming trucks, sort cargo, and perform piece counts and weight checks. Safely unload incoming trucks and containers
• Quality & Damage Inspection: Identify and document damaged goods or missing items from shipments.
• Check inbound paperwork, piece counts, and weights against system manifests, ensuring items are free of damage.
• Pay close attention detail, read notes, match paperwork to physical items. Report discrepancies
• Data Entry: Scan barcodes using RF scanners and log inventory information into computer tracking systems
• Log incoming inventory accurately using RF scanners and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• Inventory Storing: Palletize, shrink-wrap, and move products to designated warehouse storage locations
• Organize and store products in designated warehouse locations to maximize space utilization
• Safety Compliance: Follow strict workplace safety rules, wear required gear and maintain a clean work area
• Follow OSHA guidelines, wear required protective gear and keep the receiving dock clear and orderly

What we would like you to bring

Requirements:

• Minimum Education: High School, High School Equivalent
• Proven basic math skills at the high school level
• 1+ years of experience in a warehouse or manufacturing environment is preferred
• Schedule flexibility - Ability to work weekends and overtime
• Proficiency with RF scanners and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• SAP and MS (Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook) experience is preferred but not required
• Comfortable using computers, inventory software
• Employees will be expected to follow procedures introduced via on-the-job training
• Ability to perform physical tasks, including lifting and standing for long periods
• Ability to work in a non-temperature control warehouse setting
• Must be a US citizen

What's in it for you

There has never been a better time to work in logistics. Bring your skills to an industry that offers stability and international career growth. We offer great compensation and medical/dental benefits packages, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs, and a fun, and interesting global work environment. #LI-onsite

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment. Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel. Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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