Shipping - Receiving

About the Role

When you join Smithfield, you become part of something special – a company that's sustainably feeding people around the world, producing good food the right way with respect for our people, animals, communities, and planet. With opportunities across locations and functions, a culture grounded in our Core Four values - gratitude, communication, respect, and accountability - and a strong commitment to learning, collaboration, and innovation, Smithfield offers challenging and rewarding careers where you can grow, contribute, and make a real impact.

Responsibilities

• Drives electric-powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or remove products, equipment, or materials.
• Prepares records of shipments and bills of lading for outbound trucks.
• Prepares records of receipt of incoming material, chemicals, and equipment and updates the database.
• Ensures accuracy of shipping documents and computer data and verifies receiving receipts with open purchase orders.
• Notifies supervisor or Quality Management department of any discrepancies (e.g., truck temperatures, meat age, etc.) in accordance with SOPs, HACCP, and company procedures.
• Checks and counts all items unloaded from trucks or trailers upon receiving materials and updates the computer.
• Weighs materials or products and records weight on correct forms as stated in SOPs.
• Receives other materials such as sanitation chemicals, other chemicals, and/or equipment.
• Operates powered industrial truck, moving levers and pedals to drive and control the lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports the load to the designated area.
• Unloads and stacks materials by raising and lowering the lifting device.
• Loads and unloads materials onto or off pallets, skids, or lifting device.
• Recharges batteries.
• Covers all breaks, including lunch, for the stack-off position as needed.
• Performs daily, weekly, monthly inventory counts.
• Moves materials on the shipping dock with a hand truck.
• Performs various daily cleaning duties (e.g., cooler and freezer, S/R dock, and outside dock area).

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or equivalent; two to four years of experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Skills: Ability to read, write, and speak English fluently and efficiently. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, GMPs, HACCP, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Computer Skills: Knowledge of MS Outlook (email software), Inventory Control Software, Spreadsheet software, Order processing, and word processing software.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Forklift certification; valid GA state motor vehicle operator’s license.
• Other Qualifications: Must be able to communicate effectively with drivers, dispatchers, and outside individuals.

Physical Demands

The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch; or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the environment is usually moderate.

Smithfield 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.