Case Dock Laborer
About the role
DFA/Kemps has immediate openings for a Case Dock Laborer to perform a variety of dock functions, including maintaining and cleaning equipment, sliding case stacks, ensuring conveyor tracks are filled, prioritizing truck unloading, scanning for hazards, handling returned inventory, unloading and washing trailers, completing paperwork, following SOPs, applying continuous improvement, reporting food safety issues, maintaining safe conditions, and adhering to GMP and corporate regulatory standards. The role involves handling finished or raw materials, communicating with departments, and meeting daily deadlines. DFA/Kemps is a farmer-owned brand of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a dairy marketing cooperative owned by more than 12,500 family farmers. DFA manufactures cheese, butter, fluid milk, ice cream, dairy ingredients and more under well-known regional brands, delivering the simple pleasures of dairy from family farms to communities nationwide.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and clean all equipment in assigned area
- Slide case stacks from truck using milk hook or pallet jack as appropriate
- Ensure conveyor tracks are filled with empty cases to prevent production delays
- Confirm empty case area is full of cases at end of shift to help next shift with