Production Associate

Job Summary & Responsibilities

Position Purpose:

Daily interaction with suppliers, customers, and truck drivers. Ensures that daily shipments and receipts are prepared correctly, checked for accuracy, and completed in a safe and timely manner.

 

Essential Functions:

Shipping:

• Acquire product from all production lines as needed for shipments
• Load outside processing shipments as needed
• Band products daily
• Weigh, tag, and label each product
• Load trucks daily and evenly distribute the weight loaded
• Miscellaneous shipping on specialty products
• Keep accurate documentation of all products/shipments

Receiving:

• Unload inbound trucks as needed daily
• Examine and verify packing slips
• Oversee storage and receiving
• Deliver packing slips to the Materials Department
• Break down boxes, pallets, and crates; Safely store or dispose
• Dump small scrap bins into large containers as needed
• All other duties as assigned

Inventory Management:

• Unload material from staging area
• Safely stage material for production use (banding
  products stored in racks)
• Stage packaging material and finished good
• Keep accurate documentation
• Cycle Count activities
• Bar code scanning of inbound/outbound freight

Education and Training

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); one to three months related experience and/or training; pass the Hendrickson pre-employment assessments.

Minimum Qualifications

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to conduct instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

 Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally move more than 100 pounds with the assistance of a lifting device. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Pay Range

$21.40

Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a full complement of benefits that include medical, dental, and vision insurance; life, travel, and disability insurance; a flexible spending account; 401K plans; a pension plan; paid holidays and vacation. We also offer financial assistance programs if you decide to adopt a child or want to pursue further education. We have a comprehensive wellness program and an Employee Assistance Program, that supports individuals in the proactive management of their overall health and wellness.