Warehouse Operator

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operates forklift to store, stage, ship, and receive products and materials.
• Bands, stretches, wraps, and otherwise prepare product for shipping, using good judgment, ensuring the product is secure for transit and storage.
• Pulls correct quantities of film and supplies for Extrusion, Press, and Converting for them to operate.
• Ensure all labeling from each department is correct on all return films and return the product to the appropriate location with correct weights and identification.
• Verifies materials received to its packing slip and ensures all paperwork is taken to the appropriate destination.
• Monitors warehouse equipment, working conditions, and operating methods for safety. Repairs or reports of any unsafe conditions. This includes daily forklift inspections.
• Weighs, logs, and stores scrap boxes and rolls in their proper category. Ensuring Scrap Labeling has the proper weights and the department that created the scrap.
• Keep the area clean and organized. This includes sweeping floors, organizing racks and aisles, taking out trash daily, etc. Their area to monitor is the Shipping area between the Press and Office and the Warehouse area between Converting and the Ink Room.
• Assists all operators as needed, pulling finished products from their work area or designated staging area.
• Monitors general safety throughout the facility and reports any unsafe acts or conditions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and/or Experience

Must have a thorough knowledge of all departmental equipment, functions, and procedures. A high school diploma or general education degree (GED), or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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 effectively present information in one-on-one and or small-group situations to customers, managers, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as truck capacities, order quantities, and inventory levels.  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers and decimals.  Ability to compute and interpret basic math formulas, percentages, charts, and graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.  Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must have completed all current training required by law and by American Film and Printing.  You must have a valid driver's license and possess a good driving record.

Other Skills and Abilities

Must possess good skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms; and hear.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 65 pounds, or more than 65 pounds with assistance or proper equipment.  The employee is occasionally required to talk, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, night vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and vibration.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and hazardous chemicals.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.  The temperature is related to seasonal conditions.