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Shipping and receiving associate resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a shipping and receiving associate resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in shipping and receiving associate-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the shipping and receiving associate position.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some shipping and receiving associate interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a shipping and receiving associate resume:

  • Shipping Receiving
  • Pallets
  • Customer Service
  • Hand Tools
  • Logistics
  • Computer System
  • RF
  • Inventory Control
  • Electric Pallet Jack
  • Safety Regulations
  • Outbound Shipments
  • Customer Orders
  • Delivery Vehicle
  • Sales Floor
  • Dollies
  • Safety Standards
  • Load Trucks
  • Purchase Orders
  • Cycle Counts
  • Space Availability
  • Hand Trucks
  • Shipment Data
  • Rectify Damages
  • Warehouse Equipment
  • Route Materials
  • Rectify Problems
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Stock Room
  • DHL
  • Warehouse Operations

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How to structure your work experience

Your work experience should be structured:

  1. With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
  2. Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
  3. Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
  4. Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.

How to write shipping and receiving associate experience bullet points

Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

Here are examples from great shipping and receiving associate resumes:

Work history example #1

Shipping And Receiving Associate

Walmart

  • Organized department by putting out freight, resetting modulars, also assisted customers with jewelry selections, and purchases.
  • Operated hand jacks, power lifts, ride along pallet lifts, and forklifts.
  • Participated on safety team for 12 years including implementing safety programs in compliance with all OSHA regulations and company policies.
  • Maintained cleanliness of warehouse in compliance with OSHA.
  • Performed forklift and equipment maintenance to ensure proper operation of equipment.

Work history example #2

Warehouse Assistant

Amazon

  • Performed tasks within extreme warehouse temperatures.
  • Operated pit equipment safely and without incidents, effective communication, followed directions, made production,
  • Loaded trucks and drove Raymond Forklifts.
  • Performed special projects as requested/needed.
  • Performed a variety of manual tasks related to the operations of warehouses.

Work history example #3

Receiving Associate

The Home Depot

  • Performed inventory for all incoming and outgoing material.
  • Operated sit down and stand up forklifts to load palletized materials on trailers for delivery
  • Performed loading/unloading of warehouse products.
  • Utilized forklifts, Radios, And RF Scanner Guns to move merchandise safely and minimize loss.
  • Supervised a team of ten individuals in the Home Depot store.

Work history example #4

Recieving Associate

Walmart

  • Received and scanned in store merchandise delivered through FedEx, UPS, and other common freight carriers.
  • Produced innovative techniques throughout store-remodeling procedures
  • Received, stocked, and performed daily inventory of dry groceries and general merchandise.
  • Supervised and trained individuals to accomplish company's guidelines and procedures.
  • Practiced integrity when performing daily audits on backroom merchandise to ensure consistency.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

High School Diploma

2012 - 2012

Highlight your shipping and receiving associate certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.

Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your shipping and receiving associate resume:

  1. OSHA Safety Certificate
  2. Certified Logistics Associate (CLA)
  3. EPA Amusement Operators Safety Certification (EPA)

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