Description

Material Handler - Shipping

Company Overview

Swan Products, LLC is a leading manufacturer of lawn and garden watering products in North America. Founded in 1927 as the Swan River Tire and Rubber Company, we are one of the original manufacturers of hoses in the industry. As a privately held company, we retain our position in the market with strategically placed manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Job Summary

The material handler position will support plant operations by managing material movements throughout the manufacturing process. Incumbent will be responsible for loading and unloading trucks, as well as, packing, un-packing, staging, retrieving and stocking material in required areas.

Primary Functions and Duties

• Maintains a safe and clean working environment, observes and follows all safety polices, wears appropriate and prescribed personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Maintain safe & orderly storage area by arranging material, products and equipment as required.
• Operate forklift in safe and expedient manner to complete job duties.
• Completes daily required forklift safety checklist.
• Must practice good housekeeping (i.e. removing used brass, emptying trash, picking up and weighing scrap, moving scrap to appropriate areas, sweeping and cleaning wasted compound in storage areas, etc.)
• Coordinates flow of materials, parts, and assemblies between Warehouse and Shop Floor, according to production and shipping schedules and/or production priorities.
• Arranges materials to meet production schedules and executes inventory transactions as required.
• Interfaces with Production Planning and the Shipping/Receiving Clerk on the completion of work orders for schedule and status updates.
• Communicates with Plant Management and Production Planning to resolve shipping/receiving, inventory, and product discrepancies.
• Counts, weighs, measures items for outgoing shipments and incoming receipts and raw materials per procedures.
• Loads/Unloads incoming and outgoing product and materials.
• Receives and ships material and products, and distributes material to the shop floor.
• Ensure that product is organized, stacked and stored appropriately in accordance with the facilities inventory process.
• Complete required shipping/ receiving paperwork (i.e. load sheets, etc.) correctly and accurately.
• Ensures that all areas are stocked with the appropriate level of materials to include (i.e. boxes, disks, ties, fittings collar guards, finished product, skids, compounds, etc.) as identified on the product specification sheet.
• Removes finished product from front-end operations and is transitioned to shrink wrap machine in preparation for shipping or staging process.

Qualifications

Work Location

• Waco, Texas

Company's Website

• www.swanhose.com

Work Remotely

• No