Posted 3 days ago
Shipper
@ Leggett & Platt
Waterloo, Ontario
Overview
Leggett & Platt is hiring a Shipper for its Northfield Metal Products team supporting the Work Furniture business. The role supervises day-to-day shipping and distribution, including shipping documents, carrier bookings and delivery coordination. The posting states Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm hours, competitive benefits and an RRSP program.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee shipping documents and freight bookings
- Coordinate packages from preparation to final shipment
- Check in and out drivers and support material handlers
- Maintain weekly shipping schedules for on-time delivery
- Work with carriers, warehouses and customers on deliveries
Requirements summary:
- 3 to 5 years of shipping and logistics experience
- Post-secondary education in a related field
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Forklift licence or forklift driving experience
- Strong attendance and attention to detail
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-03
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-02
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Supply chain & logistics |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 37.5 |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Warehouse, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | People with disabilities |
| Education | High school (required), College diploma (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Logistics, Supply chain management |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan |
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Leggett & Platt
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We turn ordinary materials into extraordinary products.
Full company description
Leggett & Platt (NYSE: LEG) enhances people’s lives worldwide by designing and manufacturing innovative, distinctive products and components for use in bedding, furniture, seating, homes, offices, and automobiles. We serve a broad suite of customers, manufacturers, and retailers around the globe. Our mission is to create products that enhance people’s lives, to generate exceptional returns for our shareholders, and to provide sought-after jobs in communities around the world. As a global company, we come from many backgrounds, but what matters most is how we work together and treat each other. We share four company values that reflect who we are and guide our everyday decisions: • Put People First • Do the Right Thing • Do Great Work Together • Take Ownership and Raise the Bar
- LinkedIn followers
- 41,531
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 4,564
- Reported office locations
- Number 1 Leggett Road, Carthage, Missouri 64836, US
- Business categories
- Construction
- Residential
- Building Material
- Commercial
- Furniture
- Product Design
- Manufacturing
- Other recorded names
- Leggett & Platt
- Specialties
- Automotive
- Adjustable Beds
- Bedding
- Home Furniture
- Work Furniture
- Flooring Products
- Wire
- Foam
- and Hydraulic Cylinders
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Leggett & Platt (NYSE: LEG) enhances people’s lives worldwide by designing and manufacturing innovative, distinctive products and components for use in bedding, furniture, seating, homes, offices, and automobiles. We serve a broad suite of customers, manufacturers, and retailers around the globe. Our mission is to create products that enhance people’s lives, to generate exceptional returns for our shareholders, and…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Carthage, Missouri |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 1883 |
| Specialties | AutomotiveAdjustable BedsBeddingHome FurnitureWork FurnitureFlooring ProductsWireFoamand Hydraulic Cylinders |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 9 |
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We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Shipper to join our Northfield Metal Products teamto support our Work Furniture business. In our Furniture Components business, we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort, motion, and style in the work and home furniture industry. From surface-critical bent tube assemblies, chair mechanisms, bases, arms, seats, and backs, our Furniture Components business brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality products. If you join our team, your work will ensure people across the world have a little more comfort in their lives.
As a Shipper, you will be accountable for supervising the day-to-day shipping and distribution operations. The team you will be working with has a long tenure and values collaboration!
So, what will you be doing as a Shipper?
- Oversee the creating and handling of crucial shipping documents, including advanced shipping notices, packing slips, and BOL's and commercial invoices
- Experience with booking LCL, FCL, LTL AND FTL shipments (dealing with customs and overseas as well)
- Coordinating the movement of packages from the preparation stage to their final shipment
- Check in and out drivers logging specific information and work with shipping material handlers to load appropriate shipments
- Understand and utilize streamline shipping processes
- Collaborating with customers, carriers, and warehouses to effectively manage the delivery of products, ensuring their prompt arrival and proper handling
- Professionally assist customer service and Leggett and Platt logistics with questions that arise
- Review and maintain schedule weekly to plan for upcoming shipments to ensure on time delivery
- Initiate action to prevent the occurence of non-conformity related to the product, process and quality system
- Recommend or provide solutions through designated channels
- Work with the supervisors, production manager and customer service to ensure all products are shipped to the customer on time
- Ensure compliance to legal regulations and company policies
- Understand and practice the policies and procedures for ISO9001
- Complete all other duties as assigned
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- Strong attendance record
- Attention to detail
- Well organized
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Proficient will all shipping procedures
- Post-secondary education in a related field
- A minimum of 3 to 5 years of shipping and logistics experience
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work individually but be a team player
- Must be able to count and react well enough to identify parts
- Critical thinking skills to identify alternative solutions
- Must have good work attitude and ethics
- Basic mathematics skills
- Forklift license required but will train with previous forklift driving experience
Reasons You’ll Love It Here
The work hours are Monday to Friday from 8:00am – 4:30pm. We offer competitive benefits as well as an RRSP program.
What to Do Next
Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team.
Our Commitment to You
We’re proud of the fact that we are strongly rooted in being an inclusive, people-focused organization. Our company culture reflects values like integrity, ownership, and authenticity. We take these to heart, and if you do as well, you’ll fit right in.
Leggett & Platt Inc. is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Leggett & Platt Inc. will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.
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