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Company: Kelly Services
Location: Barkhamsted, CT
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

Now Hiring: Shipper/Receiver
Location: Barkhamsted, CT
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Pay Rate: $20 per hour

Position Summary:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and reliable Shipper/Receiver to manage all aspects of incoming and outgoing shipments. This full-time role involves preparing, packaging, and shipping products using UPS, FedEx, and other carriers, as well as receiving deliveries, maintaining inventory, and purchasing supplies for various departments.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow their skills in a hands-on, fast-paced environment. Training will be provided for motivated candidates.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Prepare and process orders for shipment, including required documentation

  • Pick, pack, and ship products using UPS, FedEx, and freight carriers

  • Receive deliveries and distribute items to appropriate departments

  • Enter and maintain shipping information in carrier systems

  • Palletize and prepare large shipments for freight forwarding

  • Order and manage inventory of shipping supplies (boxes, labels, packing materials)

  • Coordinate with UPS, FedEx, freight companies, and delivery personnel

  • Maintain accurate shipping and receiving inventory records

  • Keep the shipping/receiving area clean and organized

  • Work with production to prepare and test parts prior to shipment

  • Purchase materials and supplies to support all departments

Qualifications:
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

  • Strong organizational and communication skills

  • Ability to lift, move, and palletize shipments

  • Prior shipping/receiving experience preferred but not required

  • Familiarity with UPS, FedEx, or freight carrier systems is a plus

Benefits of This Role:
  • $20 per hour starting pay

  • Consistent full-time schedule: Monday–Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM

  • On-the-job training and growth opportunities

  • Work in a supportive and team-oriented environment



As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly 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.


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