About this role
Specific Duties:
• Moves and stores a variety of materials, parts, or products.
• Checks incoming materials and reports shortages or damaged materials.
• Operates standard manual and automatic equipment, included, but not limited are electronic scales, banding machine, and shrink wrapper.
• Stacks shipments on skids as required and take shipments to loading dock.
• Receives and unpacks materials and supplies.
• Fills orders from storage areas and delivers to designated departments.
• Checks receipt against purchase order for proper shipment, shortages, damages, or defects.
• Operates material handling equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, hand trucks or dollies to move stock or reorganize storage. Follows equipment instructions, specifications and manuals.
• Performs such individual assignments as the supervisor may direct; establishes and maintains effective work relationships within the company, facility and department.
• Must carry out duties per ISO/TS16949 and ISO 14001 requirements.
Required Training, Knowledge and Experience:
• Possesses substantial knowledge of the plant's processes, techniques, tools, materials, machines and equipment.
• Possesses strong interpersonal skills.
• High school diploma with two years experience in material handling that includes the operation of powered material handling equipment.
Essential Functions:
• Regular and predictable attendance.
• Performs those tasks necessary to produce/assemble/manufacture and inspect the company's products using assigned equipment and processes.
• Maintains equipment operating records, works from within instructions from within the standards manual.
• Maintains all work areas in a clean, safe and orderly manner.
Critical Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Occasionally employees will lift to 60 pounds and frequently carry up to 40 pounds.
• Maneuvers in, around, under, and about factory and/or laboratory equipment and machinery on a regular and continuous basis.
• Majority of work time is spent standing, walking, lifting and bending.
• May work with telephone answering equipment and PC.
• May work with Excel and MS Work.
• Climb ladders and stairs regularly.
• Works within an automotive component manufacturing and is exposed to heat, cold, wet, and fumes/chemicals.