Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The job opportunity below is with one of our clients specializing in biotechnology product development services. The client is dedicated to supplying laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services essential in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. As a global leader in serving the scientific community, the organization generates approximately $40 billion in annual revenue and is committed to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Their global team delivers innovative technologies, convenient procurement solutions, and pharmaceutical services through industry-leading brands.
Position: Shipping Coordinator
Location: Tewksbury MA 01876
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Tewksbury MA 01876
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: Monday to Friday - Starts at 07:00 AM
Summary
The Import/Export Coordinator / Shipping Coordinator is responsible for preparing, documenting, and coordinating domestic and international shipments while ensuring compliance with company policies, customs regulations, export requirements, and transportation standards. The role supports timely and accurate delivery of goods, maintains shipping and export records, and coordinates with freight forwarders, customs brokers, carriers, and internal teams. The position also provides support for warehouse, receiving, and inventory activities as needed.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and process domestic and international shipments according to customer and regulatory requirements.
- Create and verify export documents, including commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, bills of lading, and shipping labels.
- Ensure compliance with export regulations, customs laws, and international shipping requirements.
- Coordinate shipments with freight forwarders, customs brokers, carriers, and internal departments.
- Schedule pickups and track shipments to ensure on-time delivery.
- Verify shipment accuracy against sales orders, purchase orders, and packing instructions.
- Package products securely to prevent damage during transportation.
- Maintain accurate records of export transactions and shipping documentation.
- Use shipping software and ERP systems to process orders and generate shipping documents.
- Monitor shipping supplies and packaging materials.
- Investigate and resolve shipping discrepancies, delays, and customs issues.
- Follow company safety procedures and quality standards.
- Assist with warehouse, receiving, and inventory activities.
- Maintain organized and safe shipping areas.
- Meet shipping deadlines and minimize shipping errors and compliance issues.
Required Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 1 2 years of domestic and international shipping experience.
- 0 1 year of general warehouse experience preferred.
- Knowledge of export documentation and customs procedures.
- Understanding of commercial invoices and HS/HTS codes.
- Familiarity with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and freight providers.
- Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office and shipping software.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and documentation accuracy.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
- Ability to lift and move packages up to 50 lbs.
- Experience with ERP/WMS systems such as SAP or Oracle preferred.
- Knowledge of Incoterms and international trade compliance preferred.
- Forklift certification preferred.
- Hazardous materials shipping knowledge preferred; training may be provided.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Tewksbury, MA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $20–$25 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Billingunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Brokerageunmatched
- Cargo/Freightunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Corporate Policiesunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Forkliftunmatched
- Freight Forwardingunmatched
- Hazardous Materials/Substancesunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- High-Throughput Screening (HTS)unmatched
- Import/Exportunmatched
- Import/Export Complianceunmatched
- International Lawunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Oracleunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Packagingunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Shipping Documentsunmatched
- Shipping Requirementsunmatched
- Shipping/Receivingunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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