Material Handler

MATERIAL HANDLER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maneuver a forklift safely in a busy industrial environment.
• Safely stack and unstack large quantities of goods onto shelves or pallets.
• Move goods from storage areas to loading areas for transport.
• Unload deliveries and safely relocate the goods to their designated storage areas.
• Ensure that forklift driving areas are free from spills or obstructions.
• Regularly check forklift equipment for faults or damages.
• Use industrial plastic wraps and wooden pallets to safely stack and package goods for transport.
• Keep up to date on health and safety requirements and forklift operating procedures.
• Consolidate partial pallets for incoming goods.
• Load/unload materials and merchandise from incoming vehicles and stack them to assigned places.
• Locate and move stock of products to pallets or crates for storage or shipment.
• Identify damages and report shortages or quality deficiencies.
• Monitor finished package weights to ensure that bags conform to specifications.
• Inspect and hand stack finished bags on a pallet using designed stack pattern.
• Ensure that finished product is bagged, sealed, and palletized in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion on structurally sound pallets.
• Attach labels to bags as necessary.
• Clean and sanitize all packing and loading areas.
• Assist in the training of new and existing personnel in any stacking functions/positions.
• Transport raw materials to production workstations.
• Keeping all material handling equipment in the best condition by conducting regular maintenance.
• Keep updated records of inventory and activity logs.
• Comply with company policies and legal guidelines.
• Help maintain a safe and orderly environment of the facilities.
• Perform inbound and inventory control activities to maintain the highest level of quality and inventory accuracy.
• Retain all documentation of incoming product receiving transport loads and verifying loads match B.O.L.
• Inventory Control and bulk material placement allocation.
• Verify COA and seals match bulk vessel.
• Preform CCP sanitation by cleaning/maintaining sifter sieves based of frequency.
• General Sanitation of bulk unloading area including bulk bins, aspiration line.

MATERIAL HANDLER QUALIFICATIONS:

• Forklift operating skills (on the job training is provided).
• Safety training is required and provided by Panhandle Milling in group settings, as well as individual computer-based training.
• Experience in grain handling and computer skills would be considered an asset.
• Ability to use a computer.
• Must successfully complete a criminal record check and credit check. Background checks are conducted by an accredited third party.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills, multitask, and able to read and write in English.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Available to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, and shift work may be required.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• This position requires physical efforts such as straining, pulling, lifting, working, and standing and walking on concrete floor.
• Repetitive use of hands, wrists, arms, and bending to move bags from packer to pallet.
• Exposure to elements such as noise, minable dust, cold and hot temperatures.
• Extreme climate or climate variation.
• Heat up to 100 degrees and lows of 40 degrees.
• Changes of >30 degrees within a shift.
• Exposure to manufacturing equipment hazards, especially forklifts.
• Climbing of ladders.