1st Shift Yard Jockey/Shipping Cooler Accociate

Are you an experienced Yard Jockey/Shipping Associate and looking for a job where your determination and experience can make a big impact? Look no further! Villari Foods is currently seeking a Yard Jockey to join our team in Warsaw, North Carolina.

At Villari Brothers, the Yard Jockey is responsible for providing support for our facility’s trailer movements, assisting the preparation of trailers for shipping, cleaning trailers, fueling of trailers, and temperature monitoring the status of loaded trailers.

Job Summary: We are seeking a versatile Yard Jockey/Shipping Cooler Associate to join our team. This role is crucial for ensuring the efficient movement of trailers, safe handling of hogs, and maintaining the organization of our shipping cooler and cardboard box room. The ideal candidate will have experience in operating heavy machinery, handling livestock, and a strong commitment to safety protocols.

Job duties:

• Trailer Movement: Safely move trailers to and from loading docks using a yard truck.
  
• Positioning: Ensure trailers are correctly positioned at loading and unloading docks.
• Inspections: Conduct routine pre- and post-trip inspections of yard trucks and trailers.
• Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of trailer locations and movements within the yard.
• Communication: Coordinate with dispatchers, drivers, and warehouse personnel to ensure efficient loading and unloading processes.
• Safety Compliance: Adhere to all safety procedures while operating equipment and handling livestock.
• Livestock Handling: Safely and humanely move hogs within the shipping cooler and onto trailers.
• Cardboard Box Room Oversight: Monitor and maintain the organization of the cardboard box room.
• Gambrels: Efficiently handle gambrels as needed for processing.
• Pallet Jack Operation: Use a pallet jack to move materials and products within the facility.
• Cooler Management: Push hogs in the cooler and onto trailers to ensure proper storage and organization.
  
  To qualify for this job, you must have:

• High school Diploma, GED,
• A favorable backcheck and Motor vehicle review.
• Ability to remain calm & focused in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Ability to safely operate a yard truck.
• Ability to climb up and down from the yard truck multiple times per day.
• Ability to effectively communicate with the use of a plant assigned radio.

We’d also love it if you have:

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  Proven experience as a Yard Jockey or in a similar role.

• Experience operating heavy machinery or commercial vehicles.

• Experience handling livestock, particularly hogs.

• Clean driving record

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively and follow instructions.

• Commitment to safety and compliance with all safety protocols.

• Experience using a pallet jack.

What Villari Foods offers you:

• Medical insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K
• Paid vacation days and holidays
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products
• Opportunities for employee recognition
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

How Villari Foods is different:

• As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
• We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.
• The experience each employee has working at Villari Foods is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids an eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The physical demand described here are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Frequently exposed to a hot, cold, wet environment, working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually below 85 DB for a time-weighted average of 8 hours.

• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
• Able to stand on one’s feet for long periods of time, walking and lifting.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity
• Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery
• Regularly required to sit/stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull repetitively in the movement of trailers and opening/closing of trailer doors.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, foodservice, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Foods is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans’ status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.