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Flowers Foods•Houston, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Flowers Foods, Inc. is a leading producer of packaged bakery goods in the United States with $5.1 billion in sales. The company offers a variety of products from brands like Nature's Own, Wonder, Dave's Killer Bread, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. Flowers Foods values Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility, fostering a culture of innovation and community. This role is responsible for pulling orders, counting, loading, and unloading product on incoming and outgoing trailers according to the shipping schedule, ensuring product safety, legality, and quality.

Requirements

Demonstration of competency for all on-the-job activities that may have a direct or indirect affect on product safety, legality and/or quality.
Physically capable of movement to all Shipping areas.
Ability to exert force necessary to move wheeled equipment weighing (400 lbs), at a distance of (100) feet.
Ability to routinely stoop, bend, and lift product containers weighing (20 lbs).
Ability to wear and use approved, applicable safety equipment, as needed.
Must meet/maintain FDC and CDC food handling requirements on public safety for work in a food production environment.
Ability to perform basic mathematical computations.
No educational prerequisite; however, must have demonstrated ability to read, comprehend and record information applicable to the job.

Nice To Haves

Six (6) or more months shipping or related experience.

Responsibilities

Pulls orders, counts, loads, and unloads product on incoming and outgoing trailers according to the shipping schedule.
Ensures that product received from production or other plants is recorded correctly.
Load and unloads to appropriate distribution area to ensure that shipping schedules are met.
Maintains cleanliness of work area.
Practice and complies with all Company policies and procedures including safety and work rules, etc.
Performance of other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.
Practices and complies with all Company policies and procedures (EEO, Harassment, Safety, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.).