What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Associate position at Covia?
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 (Warehouseman) who will have a positive impact on the Production team at its McIntyre, GA location.
The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:
- Safety: 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.
- Load Trucks and Containers: Ability to interface with drivers to accurately load customer orders. Ability to safely load pallets to prevent equipment or product damage.
- Job order prep: Ability to work with Choice Bagging operator to load pallets into an automated feeder, set up orders in the system, and supply pallets of bags for the Choice Bagging operator.
- Flexibility: Willingness to train on other job functions and fill in as necessary.
- Miscellaneous
- Housekeeping: Ability to keep a work area and completed job clean.
- Work productively and ability to arrange priorities.
- Understand the plants’ basic flow sheet and purpose of each piece of equipment.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Literacy in English both verbally and written
- Previous experience in the mining industry preferred but not required
- Demonstrated commitment to safety in identifying and managing risks
- Demonstrated ability to work with a team and take directions
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 and fixed annual contributions
- Vacation Paid Holidays
- Short-Term Disability, Life / AD&D insurances
- Employee Assistance Program
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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