Material Handler- FLO; 1st Shift

Position: Material Handler- FLO (1st Shift)
Location: Olde West Chester

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Position Summary

Crescent Forklift Operators move necessary materials throughout the warehouse efficiently and safely. They provide logistics services to internal and external customers following the Crescent Way – 3 P’s:
Purpose, Process, People, and a commitment to doing it right, safe and well.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Safety

• Read, understand, and follow the Doing it Safe Playbook
• Understands and complies with all safety requirements
• Do not walk by any unsafe act or behavior
• Maintain a clean and organized warehouse
• Complete forklift inspection and trailer inspection forms accurately and according to procedure
• Operate forklift safely in a trailer, warehouse, production floor, and around other workers

People

• Motivated member of the Crescent team
• Ability to work and complete individually assigned tasks
• Work well in high paced environment
• Work closely with other FLO’s, Line Leads, Shipping and Receiving, and Supervisors to complete tasks on time, resolve issues, and continuously improve
• Ability to learn tasks, layout, and customer requirements quickly
• Ability to operate warehouse management system

Productivity

• Operate forklift efficiently to maximize productive time
• Communicate with Production to prioritize, pull, and stage inventory accurately and according to procedure to ensure efficient line operation
• Efficiently load and unload trailers to maintain turnaround times for each dock appointment
• Communicate with lead and supervisor to maintain good workflow for assigned tasks
• Consistently reach pallets per hour productivity standard

Quality

• Load trucks according to Crescent and Customer requirements with consideration for weight, balance, and load security
• Report all safety, quality, near misses, accidents, mistakes, and product damages accurately and according to procedures
• Ability to accurately verify and count items to be picked, staged, or loaded
• Ensure the integrity of lot code is maintained through every product movement process
• Maintain customer or inventory separation when required

Customer Value

• Handle customer owned product with care and protect their brand
• Work efficiently to provide on time delivery for each customer request
• Identify and be a part of continuous improvement efforts

Financial

• Provide ideas to continually improve productivity, GMP’s, and RSW
• Continually seek out means to remove sources of waste throughout the warehouse
• Look for ways to increase sustainability

Do It Right

• Identify and communicate continuous improvement opportunities
• Accept and embrace change

Do It Safe

• Able to adhere to safety and GMP requirements
• Patient and aware of surroundings

Do It Well

• Able communicator – clearly communicate with peers and supervisors
• Able to follow policy and procedures
• Resilient – able to deal with the unexpected

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Possess the necessary level of hand / eye coordination to safely operate industrial equipment

Knowledge, Skills, & Capability

• The ability to read instructions and perform simple math
• Confident and able to both make decisions and ask for support
• The ability to communicate and balance talking with listening
• Being self‑motivated and motivated by achieving set targets while continually seeking out opportunities to eliminate waste. Ability to accept and embrace change
• Determining how information fits together and how the information relates to the task at hand
• The ability to break a problem down into steps and produce a logical timely solution
• The ability to manage one’s time effectively, schedule and prioritize tasks in accordance with the demands of the day

Systems Usage

• Pack Manager
• SAP

Performance Metrics and Trends

• Moves per hour
• Incidents and accidents
• Participate in Safety Observations
• Pack‑Manager Data Entry
• Absenteeism
• On time / timely

Qualifications Education & Experience

• High school diploma and 2 years of related experience, or…