What are the responsibilities and job description for the Expediter position at AB Mauri North America?
Description
Position
Objective
Verify and maintain records on outgoing product shipments, prepare product for shipment; verify material receipts, maintain receiving records, load, unload, and move materials within or near the plant, yard, or work site; and prepare and verify cream shipments.
Key Result Areas
Performance Standards:
Shipping
Production Area
A combination of the listed skills and knowledge is preferred
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works neat moving mechanical parts; in high places; in outside weather conditions; and with hazardous materials and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and /or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock.
Position
Objective
Verify and maintain records on outgoing product shipments, prepare product for shipment; verify material receipts, maintain receiving records, load, unload, and move materials within or near the plant, yard, or work site; and prepare and verify cream shipments.
Key Result Areas
Performance Standards:
Shipping
- Compare identifying information and count, weigh, or measure outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading.
- Ensure that yeast shipments are loaded onto the proper truck.
- Affix shipping labels on packed cartons or stencils identifying shipping information on cartons for LTL shipments.
- Stamp, stencil, or glue, identifying information and shipping instructions onto crates or containers.
- Examine outgoing shipments to ensure shipments are properly loaded/stacked on trucks.
- Operate forklift or use hand truck to move, convey, or hoist shipments from storage or work area to trucks.
- Load cream yeast onto cream trucks and properly documents paperwork.
- Ship fresh yeast packaging products, AB Mauri factored goods, and other purchased baking commodities onto refrigerated trucks, and properly documents paperwork.
- Maintain the storage and identification of inbound factory goods in the plant warehouse.
- Interface/communicate with customer service representatives about immediate outbound shipments.
- Develop and maintain excellent repertoire with drivers and vendors.
- Ship confirms all products shipped, ensuring accuracy of lot codes and quantities.
- Unload railcars and barges.
- Unpack/examine incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, and records shortages/overages.
- Inspect/unload incoming pallets. Store properly outdoors and rotate into the packaging product area.
- Receive bulk chemicals for storage into the bulk chemical tanks per standard operating procedures.
- Receive palletized raw materials per standard operating procedures.
- Receive purchased factory goods product.
Production Area
- Assemble wooden or cardboard containers or selects preassembled containers.
- Insert items into containers.
- Nail covers on wooden crates and binds containers with metal tape.
- Read work order or follows oral instructions to ascertain materials or containers to be moved. Open containers.
- Load and unload materials onto or from pallets, trays, racks, and shelves by hand.
- Convey materials from storage or work sites to designated area.
- Secure lifting attachments to materials and convey load to destination or signals crane or hoisting operators to move load to destination.
- Attach identifying tags or labels to materials or marks information on cases, bales, or other containers. Route items to proper department.
- Stack or assemble materials into bundle and bands bundles together.
- Lift heavy objects by hand or with a power hoist, and clean work area, machines, and equipment to assist machine operators.
- Shovel loose materials such as sand, gravel, metals, plastics, or chemicals, into machine hoppers or vehicles and containers such as wheelbarrows, scrap truck, or barrels.
- Operate floor scrubber to clean aisles and work areas on a daily basis.
- Sweep and mop floors inside of building and warehouse.
- Operate pressure washer to clean tanks, dikes, and plant exterior and interior.
- Set up packaging department at the beginning of the shift with pallets, paper wrapping materials, oils, boxes, and paper bags.
- Set up the packaging department staging area with FIFO paper wraps, bags, and cases.
- Inventory raw materials and finished goods.
- Maintain inventory of shipping materials, supplies, and pallets. Record the number of pallets received/shipped on pallets inventory sheets and route the sheets to the accounting department.
- Post daily receipts of raw materials and other purchased items into the ERP Receiving Module.
- Record lot numbers of packaging materials set in the packaging staging area.
- Remove samples of materials, label with identifying information, and take samples to laboratory for analysis.
- Sample railcars, cola trucks, and barges, labeling samples with proper information.
- Maintain the department Master Sanitation Schedule.
- Adhere to the plant Good Manufacturing Practice and HACCP programs.
- Responsible for HACCP monitoring activities.
- Comply with HR policies and procedures.
- Comply with relevant employment laws.
- Comply with the Safety requirements of the plant.
- Sweep plant exterior grounds.
- Other duties as assigned.
A combination of the listed skills and knowledge is preferred
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- One to two years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to operate specific computer software and related hardware.
- Forklift operator’s license.
- Demonstrates basic math skills.
- Experience in the food processing or pharmaceutical industries.
- Ability to operate a shrink-wrap machine.
- Ability to operate an IBM AS/400 mainframe computer.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks under pressure.
- Occasional overtime may be required.
- May be required to train new employees assigned to the department.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works neat moving mechanical parts; in high places; in outside weather conditions; and with hazardous materials and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and /or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock.
