Warehouse Assoc

Ring Container Technologies•Kankakee, IL

About The Position

The Warehouse Associate operates forklifts and handles production materials, raw materials, finished goods, and waste safely and efficiently. The role includes moving materials between production and the warehouse, maintaining orderly storage and housekeeping, loading and unloading trailers, preserving access to dock doors, and preparing warehouse documents and reports. The position also supports inventory activities, quality and food-safety procedures, employee training, and plant teams and continuous-improvement activities. The associate must handle, transport, identify, and store materials in ways that preserve product quality and food safety. Duties include maintaining lot-code traceability, isolating non-conforming products, following GMP, HACCP, personnel practices, and other prerequisite food-safety programs, preventing foreign-material contamination, and maintaining a clean and sanitized work area. This role requires regular physical activity, including climbing, bending, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, and repetitive hand and arm movements. The position involves medium work, including exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally. The worker may encounter indoor and outdoor conditions, extreme heat, noise, vibration, moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, fumes, dust, oils, and other environmental conditions. The stated schedule is 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Pay is listed as $21 per hour, with a broader pay range of $17.01–$25.00.

Requirements

Ability to come to work promptly and regularly.
Ability to take direction and work well with others.
Ability to work under deadline-related stress.
Ability to concentrate and perform accurately.
Ability to respond productively to change and handle other tasks as assigned.
Ability to work with limited supervision and demonstrate urgency and accountability.
Ability to complete or have completed OSHA forklift certification within 90 days of employment.
Ability to perform the listed physical activities and medium work, including exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly.
Ability to work in the described indoor and outdoor conditions, which may include extreme heat, noise, vibration, moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, fumes, dust, oils, and poor ventilation.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED equivalent.
One year of forklift experience.

Responsibilities

Operate forklifts safely, wear seat belts while operating them, and keep forklifts in safe and efficient condition through daily and weekly inspections.
Remove product from production and stack units at appropriate heights in an orderly manner in the warehouse.
Bring raw materials to the production floor.
Weigh, identify, and stage waste raw materials.
Sweep and maintain the warehouse in an orderly condition.
Maintain access to dock doors, including removing snow and debris.
Prepare warehouse reports and review bills of lading, work orders, and other documents as necessary.
Load and unload truck trailers and follow proper loading and unloading procedures.
Assist co-workers as needed and perform tasks assigned by supervisors.
Assist with documenting daily and monthly inventories.
Complete the Quality Control Orientation program and training on the in-house computer inventory system.
Assist with training new employees in the Quality Control Orientation program and in-house inventory systems as needed.
Complete or have completed OSHA forklift certification within 90 days of employment.
Participate in plant teams and activities related to safety, quality, sustainability, community involvement, OEE, maintenance, employee wellness, brainstorming, and continuous improvement.
Take responsibility for personal development by seeking manager meetings, training, broader involvement, continuing education, and development and performance goals.
Handle, transport, and store materials and finished goods in a manner that maintains product quality and food safety.
Label or tag production and record lot codes as required to maintain raw and packaging material traceability.
Isolate and track non-conforming products and materials.
Follow GMP, personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food-safety programs.
Perform work in a manner that prevents foreign-material contamination and communicate quality, food-safety, and food-defense issues to appropriate personnel.
Maintain a clean and organized work area through housekeeping, sanitization, and waste management practices, follow the master cleaning and sanitization schedule, and proactively resolve housekeeping and sanitation opportunities.