Product Coordinating Lead

Job Title: Product Coordinating Lead

Department: Transportation

Reports To: Product Coordinating Supervisor

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt 
 

Come join our team as a Product Coordinator Lead! We started with pastries handmade by Lois and Lloyd Martin inside of a garage and we have boomed into a multi-facility company where our many products are produced by machines and shipped domestically and internationally. Talk about a rich history and exciting future! As an employer of choice we offer physical, emotional, financial and professional benefits including 401k, disability insurance and paid holidays.

Summary: As a member of the Martin's Family, the Product Coordinator Lead assist with organizing the workload and directing other employees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Transports finished product via an electric jack from the palletizer to the storage location or a tractor-trailer in an accurate and orderly fashion.
• Ensures each pallet is strapped correctly.
• Maintains the supply of pallets to the palletizing machines.
• Removes broken or dirty baskets and pallets from circulation.
• Examines and removes any defective product from the pallet.
• Checks product clips to ensure the accurate color, price and date are used.
• Receives, picks, verifies and loads product orders.
• Attaches or marks identifying tags or labels to product or materials.
• Installs strapping, bracing or padding to prevent the shifting and damage of loads while in transit.
• Unloads returned product form tractor-trailers and transports to the stale area.
• Empties baskets, tubs and pallets of stale product into the stale machine.
• Operates and fills the stale machine.
• Monitors and fills the basket lines with empty baskets.
• Maintains the cleanliness of the trailers, stale room and warehouse.
• Processes orders from salespersons as needed.
• Ensures that older product is being loaded and sent out before newer product.
• Adheres to safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.

Office Responsibilities:

• Maintains dock inventory including what trailers are assigned to which doors and assigning trailers to loads based on specific criteria obtained from load sheet.
• Maintains product inventories throughout transport systems.
• Reports and corrects issues that arise within the transport systems.
• Reviews dispatch times and determines what warehouses need to be pulled at what hours according to load sheet.
• Uses Savanna System to allocate products to fulfill sales orders.
• Releases orders using Savanna system thru the ASRS and Cimcorp systems for product fulfillment.

Floor Responsibilities:

• Hand out and give direction of loading to loaders.
• Check loads during and at completion prior to shipping orders.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Assist Product Coordinating Supervisor in directing work of employees in the Transport Department. Ensures that employees are following food safety standards and departmental procedures.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED;
• Three to five years’ experience in transportation industry.
• Prior Electric Pallet Jack experience required.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:

• Knowledge of keyboard, data entry and Microsoft Office Suite.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to operate or learn to operate electric jack.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The temperature is the dock area is directly affected by outside temperatures. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)