Loading Apprentice

Job Title: Loading Trainee 

Department: Shipping / Loading 1st shift

Reports to Title: Shift Supervisor with the direction from the Team Leader

Shift Days /HOURS: 40+ hours per week over the course of 5 days. Overtime may be required most weekends.  Shift starts at 6:00 am - 2:00pm.

Starting Pay: $19.82 per hour with the ability to earn more.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

The Loading Trainee assist in the counts, measures, or weighs of articles to verify contents for shipments against bills of lading, invoices, or storage receipts by performing the following duties: Load product onto trailers after pallet is verified, counted, and wrapped. The Loader is responsible for the safety of the outbound loads.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Examines articles for defects and sorts of articles according to extent of defect.

• Attaches identification data onto articles.

• Records factors causing goods to be returned.

• Load products on trailer by following the load diagram.

• Ensures accurate loading of outbound products to support safe delivery for the Delivery Driver.

• Load trailers ensuring dispatch times are met.

• Comply with safety policies and procedures.

• Wear the required personal protective equipment.

• Accepts feedback from the Team Leader to ensure the loads were up to safety standards.

• Complete special projects and other duties as assigned.

• Must be conscientious, diplomatic, and detail oriented. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations (e.g., customer complaints, time pressures.) Experience with forklift operation or other power equipment preferred.

   

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The work environment characteristics and physical demands described are representative of those employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. To perform this job successfully as an individual you must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handles, or feels objects, tools, or controls, reaches with hands and arms, talks to hear.

• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and always without air conditioning.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• HS Diploma/GED

• Must pass a skills-based test-starter.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work efficiently and effectively, self-motivated self-starter with a minimum of three (3) months related experience and/or will train hands on, and equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Must pass company background check and drug screen.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT US:

• Components of our Core: SAFETY, INTEGRITY, RESPECT, CELEBRATION, COMMUNICATION, TRUST, DIVERSITY, and ACCOUNTABILITY.

• We’re People Leaders

• Competitive Pay

•  Paid Vacation

• Medical, Dental, Life

• Matched 401K