JAMES GUBICS
Willoughby,OH
Summary
Experienced warehouse professional with over 15 years of hands on experience currently supporting safe and efficient operations at APL Logistics.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Material Handler
APL Logistics
01.2025 - Current
- Provides warehouse services through safe, efficient, cost-effective, and accurate handling of customer products and materials.
- Uses specially equipped trucks such as slip-sheet, clamp, and reach equipment.
- Performs loading, unloading, staging, and storage of customer products.
- Utilizes computer equipment to support warehouse operations, inventory movement, and documentation as assigned.
Generator
Swagelok
04.2023 - 01.2024
- Generating and distributing orders based on need and due dates.
- Fixing inventory and order issues throughout the shift.
- Returning inventory to stock and fulfilling requisitions from assembly cells.
- Staging completed orders in assembly.
Material Handler / Shipping Clerk
Crescor
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Removing finished parts from fabrication and delivering them to assembly lines throughout the building.
- Performing material transactions through Syteline while maintaining a written log of each item moved.
- Supplying the packaging department with materials needed to pack finished goods.
- Locating, verifying, labeling, and loading carriers with finished units for shipment.
Shipping / Receiving Clerk
Parker Hannifin Aerospace
08.2018 - 11.2021
- Receiving all items entering the building for the aerospace industry.
- Performing strict verification processes to certify conformity and quantity.
- Unloading dock-high vehicles and personal vehicles using a tow motor.
- Shipping finished goods as part of a two-person team.
- Filing export paperwork with the United States Government.
- Packaging, weighing, preparing, scheduling, and loading freight shipments.
LTL Shipping Coordinator
HGR Industrial Surplus
09.2016 - 01.2018
- Working from pick lists and invoices to verify bills of lading.
- Staging palletized orders for shipment.
- Contacting and scheduling freight pickups with various ground carriers.
- Loading trailers using a forklift.
- Completing shipping transactions using Dataflow and RECON logistics software.
- Contacting customers with tracking information upon pickup.
Receiving Clerk / Material Handler
Process Technology
04.2016 - 08.2016
- Receiving, verifying, counting, and delivering all packages entering the plant.
- Receiving items into inventory using Syteline 9 software.
- Delivering materials to designated areas throughout the facility.
- Working in a fast-paced environment requiring accuracy and customer service.
Warehouse and Fire Technician
The Lubrizol Corporation
04.2007 - 09.2015
- Inspecting inbound deliveries, stocking inventory, cycle counting, and issuing parts using SAP software.
- Operating various types of forklifts and using RF scanners.
- Working directly with customers to locate and supply required items.
- Obtaining vendor quotes, creating purchase requisitions, and converting them into purchase orders.
- Performing inventory adjustments, transfers, MRP functions, and scheduling activities.
Fire Technician (Promoted Role)
The Lubrizol Corporation
04.2007 - 09.2015
- Creating work orders, scheduling, and ordering materials.
- Assisting in safety training sessions.
- Maintaining, testing, and operating fire suppression systems, alarms, rescue equipment, and emergency response vehicles.
- Working within EPA, NFPA, OSHA, and FM Global guidelines.
- Reading CADD drawings and coordinating with engineering to update documents.
- Organizing maintenance records and authoring SOPs.
- Coordinating with outside vendors and contractors.
- Operating fire, ambulance, and HAZMAT vehicles.
- Conducting quarterly safety audits.
- Testing foam extinguishing agents and maintaining campus fire pumps.
- Becoming a licensed sprinkler installer and performing installations.
- Operating forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts.
Education
GED -
Eastlake North High School
Volunteer Firefighter Certification - 40-hour course
Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Skills
- Warehouse Operations
- Material Handling
- Shipping and Receiving
- Inventory Control
- Order Processing and Staging
- Forklift and Powered Industrial Equipment Operation
- Slip Sheet Clamp and Reach Equipment
- ERP and Inventory Systems SAP Syteline
- Loading Unloading and Storage
- Safety and Compliance OSHA Standards
- Documentation and Computer Based Systems
- Logistics Coordination
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail
- Teamwork and Communication
- Fast Paced Work Environment
Awards And Acknowledgments
- Volunteer Firefighter Certification through Tri-C.
- TEEX External Firefighting Course, Texas A&M, 07/01/14
- Multiple FEMA certifications in Emergency Response and HAZMAT.
- Volunteer 8+ hours per week with City Dogs Cleveland.
Timeline
Senior Material Handler
APL Logistics
01.2025 - Current
Generator
Swagelok
04.2023 - 01.2024
Material Handler / Shipping Clerk
Crescor
11.2021 - 04.2023
Shipping / Receiving Clerk
Parker Hannifin Aerospace
08.2018 - 11.2021
LTL Shipping Coordinator
HGR Industrial Surplus
09.2016 - 01.2018
Receiving Clerk / Material Handler
Process Technology
04.2016 - 08.2016
Warehouse and Fire Technician
The Lubrizol Corporation
04.2007 - 09.2015
Fire Technician (Promoted Role)
The Lubrizol Corporation
04.2007 - 09.2015
GED -
Eastlake North High School
Volunteer Firefighter Certification - 40-hour course
Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)