Warehouse Associate

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia’s market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic Warehouse Associate who will have a positive impact on the Operations team at its Elco, IL location.

The successful incumbent will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Perform each and every job in a safe and timely manner. Full adherence to all corporate and site safety policies.
• Mobile Equipment Operation: Ability to operate a forklift in a safe manner. Ability to perform routine pre-shift equipment checks and report any issues immediately.
• Organization: Ability to move completed pallets of material to designated storage areas in a manner that conforms with existing procedures so that it can be easily retrieved and maintain product integrity.
• Maintain an accurate physical inventory of finished goods & consumables.
• Maintain accurate shipping schedule
• Job order prep: Working knowledge of Microsoft Software: Word, Excel & SharePoint
• Job order prep: Ability to work in IFS SMP to find and assign orders.
• Job order prep: Ability to locate orders in IFS and create manual BOL’s, as needed.
• Load Trucks, Bulk & Containers: Ability to interface with drivers to accurately load customer orders.
• Load Trucks accurately according to order number and shipping report.
• Ability to safely load pallets to prevent equipment or product damage.
• Ability to Maintain product quality standards.
Unload all consumables to include: Bags, slipcovers, pallets, chemicals etc.

Miscellaneous Duties:

• Housekeeping: Ability to keep a work area and completed job clean.
• Work productively and ability to arrange priorities.

• Able to train new employees on all functions and responsibilities of a Warehouse Associate/Loader.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The successful incumbent will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• Literacy in English, both written and spoken required
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• 2 years related work experience required

• Effective communication skills
• Patience while teaching
• Good problem-solving skills.

• Evaluation abilities to evaluate trainees.
• Previous experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software such as SAP, Oracle, IFS, etc. will be given preference
• Demonstrated experience contributing within a team of professionals to deliver against set targets
• Demonstrated commitment to safety with previous experience in identifying and managing risks
• Strong organizational skills

Commitment to Our Culture:

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage—guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success—ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits – medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching
• Vacation Paid Holidays
• Disability, Life / AD&D, and Long-Term Care Insurances
• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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