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Graham Packaging Company•Spring Garden Township, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Graham Packaging Company is hiring a Material Handler based in York, Pennsylvania. This is a night-shift position working 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on a rotating 2/2/3 schedule, including every other weekend. Pay is weekly, starting at $20.60 per hour, with an additional $3.00 night-shift differential. Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits with a company match are effective on the first day. The role combines product handling and forklift operation to stack, transport, and store work-in-process materials and finished goods. The Material Handler supplies production lines with packaging materials and moves completed goods to warehouse locations. The position also involves production-line support, equipment inspections, inventory and documentation tasks, quality checks, and communication with warehouse personnel and supervisors. Limited travel may be required. Graham Packaging describes its workplace culture as people-, planet-, and values-based, emphasizing safety, accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, collaboration, integrity, respect, learning, and employee growth. The company lists medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance; access to a 401(k) Employee Saving Plan; an Employee Wellness Program; and paid time off in accordance with company policy and state law.

Requirements

Computer usage and typing skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
Ability to work independently and complete assignments within instructions, prescribed routines, and accepted practices.
Ability to communicate facts and information clearly, verbally and in writing.
Ability to collaborate with others and contribute proactively to group objectives.
Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.

Nice To Haves

At least one year of forklift experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Follow established safety, health, quality, GMP, and company policies, procedures, and recognized practices.
Inspect the lift truck for safety and check its battery; report malfunctions or damage to the Warehouse Manager or Shift Supervisor.
Change lift-truck batteries and add water when needed, record battery-change times, and complete the lift-truck status report.
Participate in continuous quality improvement projects and related activities as assigned.
Review the daily production schedule with the Shift Supervisor, supply production lines with materials, report low materials, and move finished goods to assigned warehouse locations.
Provide warehouse personnel with accurate information about unloaded materials and materials used or produced.
Remove, store, and unitize production scrap bales; notify warehouse personnel when a full load is ready; remove excess corrugated material from the mezzanine; empty the baler as needed; and move full cardboard bales to assigned warehouse locations.
Keep accurate records of materials used and produced and submit the required paperwork to warehouse personnel.
Move finished goods and materials on hold to assigned locations; stack finished goods neatly at proper heights; and verify that goods removed from production have product-code tags.
Participate in physical inventory counts.
Keep production lines supplied with the correct knockdown cases, dividers, and pallets; move full pallets to the warehouse for trailer loading; and return unused cases and dividers to their proper warehouse locations.
Assist with stock-handler duties or trailer loading during limited production, as needed.
Perform other material-handling tasks, including supplying hot-glue cases and color concentrate, replacing cold-glue totes, moving excess cases and slip sheets, loading storage racks with gaylords, setting up rework and product on hold for quality control, relieving stock handlers, and loading and unloading corrugated trailers.
Identify acceptable and defective corrugated material and isolate defective material.
Follow forklift procedures and complete required safety and maintenance checklists.
Follow procedures for damaged finished goods and raw materials and report damage on the line driver report.
Communicate shift totals and machine totals with the supervisor and coordinate with other lift-truck operators about changes or problems, including damaged materials, damaged skids, and low inventories.
Complete required written documentation.
Relieve downstream teammates for breaks and lunches.
Use a forklift to move finished-product pallets to stretch-wrap machines, then to staging or specified warehouse locations; complete the finished-goods report or worksheet.
Maintain supplies of corrugated and other packaging materials at each machine.
Visually inspect completed product pallets for quality and conformity to packaging instructions.
Maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
Provide effective customer service, communicate clearly with internal and external customers, work under pressure and meet deadlines, and complete assignments independently within given instructions and established practices.
Contribute to group objectives and offer help to colleagues.