Description
Job Title: 1st Shift Load Planner
Department: Shipping
Reports to: Dustin Spears
Location: Beardstown, Illinois
Effective Date: 06/06/2025
Job Status: Full Time
FLSA Status: Salaried Non-Exempt
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday (Saturdays required with shipping schedule, flexibility as needed)
Travel Requirements: 0-5%
Job Summary:
The JBS Pork team is seeking a 1st Shift Load Planner. The load planner manages the logistics of shipping orders, ensuring efficiency and timely delivery. They will optimize loads, coordinate with various teams and manage trailer inventory, all while adhering to safety and regulatory standards. Load Planners work with various departments, including logistics, warehousing, and customer service, to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery solutions.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Organize orders in tray for loading dock
- Assign loads to doors
- Print pick list
- Assign Row Cards
- Temp recorders for each load
- Check inventory received and make adjustments as needed
- Dispatch loads in and out of dock doors
- Provide information on product and load status to shag service and production management
- Manage trailer assigning, changing status, etc.
- Check product rotation
- Plan future dated load activities
- Run out-by-time reports
- Assist loading dock in other needs for remainder of time
- Log shipments on load sheet
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to multitask
- Customer service skills
- Computer/keyboard literate
- Excellent telephone and radio etiquette
- Knowledge of the industry
- Must be able to demonstrate effective people skills
- Must be able to tolerate smells and extreme temperatures
- Must be able to work as part of a team and be self-driven
- Must be detailed oriented
- Must maintain exceptional communication written and verbal
- Must have good attendance
- Internal applicants must have less than 2 points
Education, Experience, Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Bilingual (plus but not required)
- Can perform the functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation
Physical Requirements:
- Desk work
- Lifting
- Climbing stairs
- Frequent visits to production areas, environment consists of: Hot, Cold, Smells, PPE Required
The Applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:
Benefits:
- Base Salary: Min. $18.54/hr-Mid. $22.52/hr (Based on knowledge and experience)
- Health, Dental, Vision coverage begins after 60 days of employment
- Paid Time off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays
- 401(k): company match beings after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule
- Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- JBS/Memorial Hospital Partnership
- On-site bank
- On-site cafeteria
- Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted meat sales
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in states where it is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for any given position, compensation ranges are specific to those states and takes into account various factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiencies for the role.
This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us:
JBS USA is a leading global provider of diversified, high-quality food products, including a portfolio of well-recognized brands and innovative, easy-to-use food solutions. We process, prepare, package and deliver fresh and value-added premium meat, poultry and retail-ready food products for customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents. We are also the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, the largest poultry company in North America. JBS USA employs more than 100,000 team members, and our corporate office is located in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, where our 1,200 team members onsite enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
JBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE/AA/M/F/D/V
Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.
