Warehouse Technician

About the role

The Warehouse Technician position at Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. plays a crucial role in supporting the company's diverse manufacturing processes. This role involves moving finished products, raw materials, and packaging within the warehouse, as well as handling receiving and shipping tasks. Additionally, the technician is responsible for packaging materials into sample boxes, operating the baler, and managing shipping and receiving paperwork.

Responsibilities

• Load and unload dry van trailers
• Operate the stretch wrapping machine
• Repackage customer samples
• Handle shipping and receiving paperwork
• Enter movement of materials into SAP
• Store and move materials
• Safely operate forklifts, packaging equipment, labeling tools
• Cookout material movements with third party logistics companies
• Pack overseas shipping containers
• Assist in the follow up on customer complaints, participate in root cause investigations
• Labeling, repackaging, sorting and recycling materials throughout the operations area
• General housekeeping and light maintenance
• Assist bulk truck drivers in loading bulk trucks from finished goods silos
• Offload railcars of raw materials into silos
• Interact and provide good customer service to drivers and vendors

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement is High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• Post-secondary education preferred
• Must be able to be forklift certified (company certifies on-the-job)
• Must be able to work flexible rotating start times, Monday through Friday with occasional overtime and weekend shift capability

Required Skills

• Basic computer proficiency
• Comfortable working computers and with SAP
• Strong interpersonal abilities in order to manage multifaceted communications with customers, internal partners and third-party logistics carriers
• Forklift experience preferred

Work Environment / Physical Demands / Travel

• Standing and walking continuously
• Working at heights up to 20 feet
• Working in a fall arrest harness while climbing ladders on trailers
• Sitting and operating a forklift for extended periods of time
• Lifts/Carries 20 - 50 Lbs. frequently
• Lifts/Carries 50 - 100 Lbs. with assistance occasionally
• Reaching and bending frequently
• Pushes/pulls occasionally