Helper

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY:

Sort and repair pallets, break down combos, pick up trash, clean up spills and operate equipment.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance.
• Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility.
• Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualification.
• Must be able to control and clean up spills on the yard.
• Clean the parking lots and under the docks.
• Disassemble and band empty paste combos.
• Sort and repair pallets.
• Pick up trash around the yard.
• Empty liquid waste.
• Inventory pallets.
• Stack empty drums on trailers.
• Must be able to operate the trash compactors and baler.
• Must be able to understand support the recycling and sustainability efforts of the facility.
• Document completed work as required by the supervisor.
• Compliance with all other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBLITIES:

        - None.

 

PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES:

• Lift pallets.
• Sort combos.
• Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.
• Stand/walk 6 or more hours per day.
• Constantly talk/hear.
• Frequently squat, bend, reach, twist/turn, grip/grasp, handle/finger and use fine motor tasks.
• Frequently use eye/hand coordination.
• Frequently lift up to 50 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 25 feet.
• Occasionally use eye/hand/foot coordination and taste/smell.
• Occasionally lift up to 100 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 25 feet.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS:

• Frequently work in damp, wet, humid, and slippery environments.
• Frequently work in extreme heat/cold (outdoors).
• Occasionally work near moving machinery with fumes or airborne debris.
• Occasionally work with toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection.

MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE

• Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform.
• Cut resistant gloves.
• Small hand tools.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one small group situations to customers, clients, and other team members of the organization.
• Ability to use effective problem solving skills.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.