Truss Plate Material Handler

Essential Functions

• Promote and drive a safety-first culture, ensuring the safety of employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Know and follow safety and emergency procedures as needed.
• Able to learn, align with, and support company goals, values, and mission statement.
• Operate all equipment and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
• Achieve and maintain an efficient pace to ensure truss tables are always appropriately supplied.
• Work closely with operations leadership, review processes and departmental layout to assure lowest production costs and highest shop labor efficiency.
• Perform cycle counts on plate inventory and communicate with saw/plate/pick-line coordinator to support inventory accuracy.
• Communicate with Saw/Plate/Pick-Line Coordinator to ensure plates are pulled and staged in correct sequence.
• Keep all plate inventory organized to ensure FIFO (First In/First Out) of material.
• Tag and rotate inventory with date received to aide in visual inventory control for FIFO purposes.
• Pull and stage plates on cart by job in sequence of wood truss schedule to support efficient operations and inventory control.
• Promote and maintain cleanliness of plate storage areas at all times.

Skills/Experience Requirements

• Forklift certification required.
• Ability to communicate in an effective manner in order to ensure efficient and effective completion of job related functions.
• Ability to read/write fluently, follow directions, and work independently with little guidance.
• Maintain a dependable attendance record.
• Work indoors without air conditioning.
• Work independently or in a team environment.
• Willingness to work any overtime needed to support customer demands.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience working in building materials and/or manufacturing.
• Experience with inventory control.
• Forklift experience.

Physical Requirements

• Walking and/or standing for long periods of time.
• Routine lifting up to 50 lbs (occasional lifting up to 80 lbs).
• Frequent to occasional stooping, squatting, kneeling, reaching, climbing, bending and twisting.