Job Description:
The Logistics Operator supports the operational process, ensuring the packing lines are kept running to help the site achieve targets, ultimately ensuring our customers’ requirements are fully met.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring that the finished product is prepared for shipment to the appropriate destination in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- This position is the final operation in meeting customer requirements with on-time, correctly loaded, and Bill of Lading accurately finished products.
- This role is responsible for including but is not limited to packing put away, loading outbound shipments, unloading inbounds both finished goods and packaging supplies, freight picking, building compact pallets, operating pallet tag station, cleaning and maintaining proper GMPs in the warehouse, and moving product inside the walls of the warehouse.
- Monitor the physical quality of finished products, reporting any defects.
- Always maintain a high standard of hygiene and housekeeping.
- Keeping Pallet Magazines fully loaded and pallet storage areas stocked.
- Health and Safety – Ensure that you are working to correct company procedures, including PPE compliance, holding the appropriate license (s), and training for any machines you operate.
- Any other duties assigned by management.
Physical Requirements
- Must be capable of working at elevated heights.
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs repetitively.
- Must not be unusually sensitive to chemicals (contact lenses not recommended).
- Vision correctable to 20/20.
- Must be able to stand on feet for long periods.
- Standing on a concrete floor
- Wearing proper personal protective equipment (hair net, bump cap, ear plugs, safety shoes, and uniform)
- Bending, stooping, twist, turn, standing for extended time periods, reaching, climbing stairs.
- Must be able to adapt to temperature and environmental extremes such as hot to cold, dust dirt and chemicals.
- Forklift assignments require OSHA certification and getting on and off frequently.
- Able to work with minimal supervision.
Education and Skills
- High School Diploma/GED
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Basic computer skills
- Passion to work and learn in a manufacturing environment.
- 1 year of manufacturing experience preferred but not required
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
