Crate Shop Technician

About AMF

AMF Bakery Systems is the world's largest manufacturer of high-speed bakery equipment, providing complete automated bakery solutions for numerous categories including Soft Bread and roll, Artisan Bread, Cake and Pie, Pizza and Flatbread and Pastry and Croissant. AMF is part of the Markel Food Groups, the leading equipment supplier to food manufacturers around the world.

Job Description

Designs, builds, and confirms contents of items in custom crates for shipment and supporting warehousing functions including pulling work orders, and parts orders, receiving goods into stock, placing received items on the shelves, packing, and processing all orders for shipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Meet all safety procedures and policies are followed
• Design, Build and prepare skids for cross-functional teams
• Put product away in assigned locations with proper tags attached
• Receive incoming goods from vendors and internal customers
• Distribute received goods to machines or shelves
• Accurately pull, count, and issue products from racks for delivery to various production areas
• Load and unload trucks as necessary
• Pack and/or crate parts for shipment
• Arrange shipments with freight carriers
• Process orders through the UPS System as necessary
• Process shipping documents for machines and parts
• Inventory checking/counting annually and as required
• Assisting the implementation of Continuous Improvement initiatives

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to operate a Forklift Truck in a safe manner
• Load and unload trucks as necessary
• Ability to comprehend verbal and written instructions
• General warehouse experience preferred
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks
• Computer literate
• Knowledge using MS Office products

Working Conditions

• Typical manufacturing facility conditions
• Indoors (95%) and outdoors (5%) working conditions
• Employees must be able to stand on concrete floors for a minimum of eight hours
• Kneeling, squatting, bending over and standing for long periods of time may be required to perform assigned tasks
• Safety steel-toed shoes and safety glasses are required
• Long pants and a sleeved shirt (short sleeve at a minimum) are required

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

• Be highly motivated
• Understand verbal, written, and drawn engineering instructions
• Maintain work area cleanliness and functionality
• Perform all assigned tasks in a limited amount of time, with expected quality, and while following safety practices

Education and Experience

• Trade school or other experience preferred