Manufacturing Associate - Reman Pallet Builder Piece Rate

About the role

As a Pallet Repair Reman, you’ll build wooden pallets from recycled materials, deconstructed pallets, and/or lumber. You may also repair pallets by taking damaged pallets sent from customers and returning them to service-ready condition before consolidating and shipping them back. Sustainability is one of our organization’s top goals, making this role vital to our success.

Responsibilities

• Utilize appropriate tools and methods to return damaged pallets to service-ready condition
• Communicate effectively with Production Supervisors, Assistant Plant Manager, and Plant Manager
• Examine products after repairing to verify conformance to quality standards
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment that meets 48forty’s standards
• Build and repair the given number of pallets once training is complete
• Work without constant supervision to achieve production quotas in the repair area, safely
• Stack pallets or materials correctly, following inventory control instructions
• Check loads to ensure they are secure

Requirements

• High school degree or GED required
• Completion of a craft apprenticeship preferred
• Quick hands, attention to detail, and commitment to quality
• Observance of all safety rules and regulations
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with concrete variables in situations where standardized requirements exist
• Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Demonstrated experience safely operating air-driven, electric, pneumatic, and manual woodworking tools
• Previous experience in welding, lumbering, construction, carpentry, or roofing is strongly preferred
• Repetitively lift up to 75 pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, walk, turn, pivot, and stand for entire shifts of varying lengths
• Ability to work in extreme conditions including elements, heat, cold, and air particulate
• Good sense of balance and good eye-hand-foot coordination
• Specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, and color vision

Work Environment

• Noise level in the work environment depends on location
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required (eye protection, ear protection is mandatory at several locations, safety shoes)

Pay

Hourly pay: $19.50 for the first 60 days, then $16 or piecework rate (whichever is higher). Pay range: USD $19.50 - $19.50/Hr.

Schedule

1st Shift: Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Benefits

• Competitive pay, holiday pay, and daily pay (access to earned wages before payday)
• Referral bonuses
• Long-term career advancement
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and short-term & long-term disability insurance for eligible full-time employees
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Great team environment

Location

8221 East 96th Avenue, Unit C, Henderson, CO 80640