Forklift Operator - 2nd Shift

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

• Operate RF scanner and other Company equipment
• On a daily basis inspect and perform minor maintenance on forklift and other Company equipment
• Unload inbound and outbound shipments safely and move product to storage locations
• Efficiently stack and store product in appropriate areas. Receive product and troubleshoot problems to resolution
• Ensure accuracy of shipments and supporting documentation, receiving incoming material and routing to appropriate areas or personnel, filling work orders from production, packaging assemblies and receiving into finished goods, ensuring inventory transaction are accurately logged and overseeing cycle counts and reconciliation activities
• Efficiently move products from locations to include trailers. Verify that the quality of product being sent outbound meets the customer expectations and report discoveries of non-conformance of product quality to Company standards
• Recommend measures to improve quality of service, increasing efficiency of department and work crew and equipment performance
• Keep appropriate records and reports to guarantee that tight inventory control and security measures are maintained
• Assist in physical inventory counts
• Ensure proper stock rotations.
• Maintain a clean, neat and orderly work environment that complies with OSHA, MSDS, and Company standards
• Enforce corporate policies regarding security and safety to maintain a safe working environment.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED required
• 0-2 years in a warehouse environment
• Experience in food manufacturing preferred
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite in addition to knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures