Loader

About the role

The Loader is responsible for efficiently and safely loading and unloading materials, products, or cargo onto and off trucks, containers, or storage areas. This role ensures that items are properly handled, secured, and organized to facilitate smooth and effective transportation and storage operations.

America's Heartland Packing is set to open its doors in early 2025. The 775,000 sq. ft. greenfield project will include a harvest floor, carcass chillers, fabrication area, rendering, further processing area, storage coolers, freezers, and loading docks.

Responsibilities

• Complete a daily forklift inspection report at the start of each shift. Report any deficiencies that would not allow safe use of the equipment immediately to the shipping supervisor.
• Work with an order picker as a team and share responsibilities of each load assigned.
• Complete a trailer checklist prior to loading; report any deficiencies with the refrigeration unit or interior of the trailer to the shipping supervisor before loading occurs.
• Use scanners to ship product to customers’ order numbers, build pallet tags, make pallet inquiries, unship product from an order, transfer product to various warehouses, and process customer returns.
• May be required to help stack product by hand and hand wrap pallets.
• Keep the dock clean and free from debris.
• Complete a trailer load sheet as loading occurs, listing order numbers, total case counts for each order, the order’s net weight and total pallet counts for each order; record product codes on each pallet, number of cases of each product code on the pallet, placement of the pallet within the trailer, location of any temperature recorders, and the seal number used on the trailer.
• Turn over all paperwork to billing clerks after loading is completed.
• When loading combo bins, scan each combo to an order number and record the placement of each combo number inside the trailer on a trailer load sheet.
• Note: this description is not intended to be all inclusive; an employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to work in a humid, cold, wet or slippery surface at varied heights in and around moving equipment and parts with the use of personal protective equipment (P.P.E).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience/knowledge of manufacturing environment.
• Previous knife experience in manufacturing environment.

Skills

• Be attentive to detail.
• Ability to work safely, wear P.P.E, and follow instructions.
• Ability to attend work consistently.
• Display strong work ethic.

Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk or sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Benefits