What are the responsibilities and job description for the Extrusion Material Handler position at UACJ AUTOMOTIVE WHITEHALL INDUSTRIES INC?
Job Purpose: Monitor daily schedule and provide material handling in support of production operations
Qualifications:
- Education and Experience: High school diploma or equivalent education & experience
- Knowledge: Knowledge of practices and procedures in a manufacturing environment related to the handling of material for production support and receiving of materials.
- Skills & Abilities: Ability to operate a forklift. Good verbal communication and basic math skills.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Job:
- Monitor the daily schedule and provide material handling support to extrusion area.
- Unload and store aluminum logs / receive material and support moving logs to the log oven.
- Loads and unloads heat age ovens, records heat age data, tickets loads and moves to stores.
- Oversee level of scrap in scrap trailers, dump scrap into trailers, record scrap pounds, coordinate the pick-up of scrap trailers.
- Confirm all materials and buy-outs are on hand or will be available prior to the scheduled set-up/production.
- Inform the Production Control Department when materials and schedules don't agree.
- Assist in organizing/improving the identification and flow of materials with inventory levels that appear too high or too low.
- Inform Purchasing when materials or inventory levels appear too high or low.
- Communicate with other material handlers and supervisors to successfully sustain operations from shift to shift.
- Additional duties as assigned by supervisor.
Training Requirements: New Hire Orientation, Hi-Lo Operator Licensing, PPE
Level of Authority: None
Physical Demands: Requires standing, walking for long periods of time, lifting up to 50 lbs, frequent bending and twisting, loading and unloading of heat age ovens, unloading log trucks outside in weather