Warehouse Operator Days

About the role

We are Nature’s Bakery, one of the fastest-growing snack brands in the category, and we have recently joined KIND, a healthy snacking leader, and the Mars family of companies. Come bake with us and create a world of snacking that is both good, and good for you.

Responsibilities

• Operate power equipment to move, locate, relocate, stack, load, unload, pick, and count merchandise.
• Store incoming merchandise on racking systems, pull products from the warehouse for shipment, stage ingredients, hook up new totes, and deliver packaging material to production lines.
• Unload bulk ingredient tankers into ingredient silos in a safe manner.
• Build, adjust, and secure pallets as required for safe transportation.
• Pick products from warehouse racks in a fast-paced environment with accuracy, and read purchase and sales orders.
• Fulfill customer orders by transporting palletized merchandise to staging areas, freight trucks, or loading docks.
• Receive and store raw materials in designated locations, ensuring compliance with GMP standards.
• Perform daily inspections of powered industrial trucks and submit inspection reports.
• Mentor and influence new warehouse personnel on proper powered industrial truck operation.
• Collaborate with all warehouse departments to ensure seamless operations.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 1-3 years of experience in a warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment.
• Forklift operation experience preferred (sit-down, stand-up, reach truck).
• Knowledge of warehouse processes like receiving, stocking, picking, packing, and shipping.
• Familiarity with inventory systems (RF scanners, WMS, or ERP software).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Builds, adjusts, and secures pallets as required to ensure safe transportation.
• Able to pick products from warehouse racks in a fast-paced environment with accuracy and ability to read purchase orders and sales orders.
• Utilizes a handheld scanning device or written document order to locate products in the warehouse to fill customer orders.
• Ensures accurate inventory of goods; conveys completed orders to designated areas.
• Initiates appropriate action when goods received are damaged or defective.
• Verifies items pulled with appropriate documents to ensure accuracy and minimize errors.
• Transports palletized merchandise from receiving to staging areas.
• Transports palletized merchandise to freight trucks or appropriate loading docks.
• Receives and stores raw materials in designated locations.
• Receives raw ingredient tankers by site GMP (Good manufacturing practices), quality, and food defense standards, and safely unloads contents into bulk silos.
• Moves and stores empty pallets in designated areas to keep aisles clear; stacks empty pallets in designated areas; sweeps designated aisles to maintain a clean and safe work environment.
• Takes advantage of opportunity charging situations to ensure power equipment is fully operational.
• Performs daily inspections of powered industrial trucks and submits daily inspection reports to management.
• Mentors and influences new warehouse personnel to operate powered industrial trucks properly.
• Operates powered industrial trucks according to manufacturer's instructions and company safety rules.
• Collaborates with all warehouse departments (Shipping, receiving, finished goods, and raw material intake) to ensure seamless operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to apply basic mathematical concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and seek solutions.
• Complete a background check and pre-employment drug screen.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to sit or stand.
• Sometimes required to stand; walk; use hands, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Other Duties

• Take advantage of opportunity charging situations to ensure power equipment is fully operational.
• Perform daily inspections of powered industrial trucks and submit inspection reports to management.
• Mentor and influence new warehouse personnel on proper powered industrial truck operation.
• Operate powered industrial trucks according to manufacturer's instructions and company safety rules.
• Collaborate with all warehouse departments to ensure seamless operations.

What We Offer You

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance offered for eligible employees.
• 401(k) plan with a company match that vests on day 1 of eligibility.
• Paid vacation (40 hours).
• Paid time off (40 hours).
• Holiday pay (11 days).
• Paid short-term disability.
• Paid life insurance.
• Banfield Pet Insurance Discounts.
• Wellness Benefits and Discounts.
• Employee Assistance Program.