Position Title: Sorter | Reports to: Supervisor
Employment Status: Full-time | FLSA Status: Non-Exempt | Pay Grade: Hourly
About the Role
The Sorter is responsible for evaluating and sorting pallets while operating with incredible consistency and detail, ensuring pallets meet the quality standards. This role will perform an array of assembly line tasks from identifying pallet size and grade, to ensuring completed pallets are clean and free from debris.
Responsibilities
- Identify and understand types and grades of pallets.
- Sort pallets, by hand or using large equipment, based on specific criteria to determine its next location in the production process.
- Evaluate pallet components to ensure they meet PLA standards.
- Perform evaluations with precision to provide consistent quality of all pallets.
- Operate and maintain multiple types of small and large equipment.
- Perform inspections of equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- Deliver on or exceed the daily production requirements.
- Operate and maintain multiple forms of hand and power tools, and equipment.
- Maintain a clean workspace, reducing accidents, and ensuring compliance.
- Escalate technical and process issues to leadership.
- Foster exceptional and collaborative partnerships with facility staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Experience, Skills & Education
- Previous experience in pallet repair, woodworking, or construction preferred.
- Knowledge of operating a variety of saws, including uses and maintenance preferred.
- Ability to work with high-powered saws in a fast-paced assembly line environment, meeting or exceeding daily production goals and deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify defects and imperfections in pallets.
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Any combination of education and experience will be considered.
Physical & Environment
- Prolonged periods of standing and walking while at the assigned station.
- Lifting, pushing, and pulling 75 pounds or more repeatedly throughout the workday.
- Most duties are performed in a non-climate-controlled environment. May occasionally perform tasks that are off-site which require varying forms of travel. Hazards require the use of personal protective equipment while in facility production areas.
Skills Required
- Ability to lift, push, and pull 75 pounds repeatedly
- Prolonged standing and walking at assigned station
- Operate and maintain multiple forms of hand and power tools and equipment
- Perform equipment inspections to ensure safe, efficient operation
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify defects in pallets
- Ability to work with high-powered saws in a fast-paced assembly line
- Previous experience in pallet repair, woodworking, or construction
- Knowledge of operating a variety of saws, including uses and maintenance
- High School Diploma or equivalent
What We Do
PLA is a national supply chain solutions provider offering Pallet Management Services, 3PL Services, Reverse Logistics Services, and Freight Brokerage & Transportation Management Services, handling more than 115 million pallets per year for over 1,500 customers. Operating under the Pallet Logistics of America, Pallet Repair Services (“PRS”), Pal-Serv, Propak, Valley Pallet, and Yancey Pallet brands, PLA operates over 75 facilities across the US, providing a comprehensive suite of supply chain management solutions.
