Overview
Under the direction of supervision (i.e. Manager, Supervisor and/or Team Leader), the Sortation Handler will be responsible to load cases onto the sortation conveyor and/or to unload cases and palletize as laid out by Customer Vendor Guides. Shift lengths may vary from 8 to 12 hours depending on assigned area. The Sortation Handler must be aware of all safety concerns related to a moving conveyor and must operate in a safe and professional manner.
Responsibilities
- Obtains a daily briefing to understand the daily workload and order of planned sortation
- Ensures all material handling equipment is in good working order before start of shift and completes all necessary logs to record maintenance issues
- Checks out and signs for at start of shift, an RF Device ensuring enough battery life is available
- Set-ups each station with the correct number of pallets and/or volume of staging pallets
- Begins to load sortation conveyor when directed by supervision
- Palletizes at Stack-Off, each customer order and ensures each case is scanned to the LPN. Ensures pallets are built with largest to smallest and in accordance with Customer guidelines
- Reports immediately any potential miss-scan or error
- Keeps the department clean, to include but not limited to sweeping and mopping floors, collecting and disposing of trash and other areas
- Assist in the removal or reassembly of ancillary equipment
- Work overtime and perform other duties as required
Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 12 months experience in material handling, warehouse operations or similar in a manufacturing environment
- Capacity to perform basic computer transactions.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.