Sortation Handler Jobs

Under the direction of supervision (i.e. Manager, Supervisor and/or Team Leader), the Sortation Handler will be responsible to load cases onto the sortation conveyor and/or to unload cases and palletize as laid out by Customer Vendor Guides. Shift lengths may vary from 8 to 12 hours depending on assigned area. The Sortation Handler must be aware of all safety concerns related to a moving conveyor and must operate in a safe and professional manner.

• Keeps the department clean, to include but not limited to sweeping and mopping floors, collecting and disposing of trash and other areas
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Begins to load sortation conveyor when directed by supervision
• Palletizes at Stack-Off, each customer order and ensures each case is scanned to the LPN. Ensures pallets are built with largest to smallest and in accordance with Customer guidelines
• Checks out and signs for at start of shift, an RF Device ensuring enough battery life is available
• Ensures all material handling equipment is in good working order before start of shift and completes all necessary logs to record maintenance issues
• Obtains a daily briefing to understand the daily workload and order of planned sortation
• Capacity to perform basic computer transactions.
• Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Reports immediately any potential miss-scan or error
• Work overtime and perform other duties as required
• Assist in the removal or reassembly of ancillary equipment
• Set-ups each station with the correct number of pallets and/or volume of staging pallets
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• 12 months experience in material handling, warehouse operations or similar in a manufacturing environment

Under the direction of supervision (i.e. supervisor and/or team leader), the machine processor is responsible for changeovers, operating, packing, loading and preparing assigned equipment and machinery for use to meet production schedules.

• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements,
• Must adhere to work instructions to ensure a consistent material is generated per customer specifications are achieved in an safe, effective and efficient manner
• Pull, deliver and stage all materials needed; Complete stock and raw/in-process/finished material transfers
• Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Actively participate in health and safety training programs and demonstrate competency based on training received
• Utilize Mettler moisture analyzers to perform moisture checks on core products
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.
• Perform routine preventative maintenance Routine clean-up during operation, quick clean between lots, and full clean when required
• Responsible for breaking-down, cleaning, tooling, setting up and preparing solution for (if required) equipment
• Ensure proper labeling of finished product while completing all necessary paperwork / documentation as required (i.e batch records)
• Utilize company ERP system (AS400) for inventory transactions, scanning, label creation, verifying additions to batch records and data entry
• Setup, operating, adjusting programmable logic control (PLC) equipment for each batch formulation (minimum 10 or more daily)
• Ensure job specific safety procedures are established and followed
• Operation of necessary machinery related to the job classification including documentation of the processing steps in the batch record and/or other necessary paperwork (i.e. initial setup, raw material usage, quality/weight checks and finished product quantity)
• Monitor and adjust machine parameters in specification to maintain finish product quality and ensure proper machine operation
• Actively participating in health and safety activities,
• Utilize Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and Outlook) to log production outputs, create product start-up documents to record relative standard deviations (RSDs), friability, disintegration, reliability/quality testing)
• Maintain awareness and enforcement of health and safety practices and activities
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Removal and reconciliation of excess and unused materials
• Troubleshooting and monitoring equipment hand tools, viscosity meters, pneumatic equipment, pressers, melters, coaters, blenders, technophars, turret lifts, dust removers, part washers, hoppers, mills and solution tanks
• Other duties as assigned, overtime as required
• Perform calibrations as necessary to keep all parameters in specification
• Adherence to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) in effect, assuring the quality and quantity of product produced as required
• May use (but not limited to) power equipment such as a forklift, hand tools, and other devices operated in a warehouse environment (i.e. electric jacks, sit down, stand ups, and cherry picker forklifts for applicable area(s))
• Be involved in the development, implementation, and updating of health and safety plans and procedures
• Ensure that codes/lots and finished products are not mixed
• Ensuring adequate resources are provided, and
• 6 months machine operation experience in a manufacturing environment
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Know and understand the cGMP and other regulatory compliance
• Properly changeover, disassemble, clean, reassemble and operate all production related equipment in the assigned department in a safe and efficient manner
• Maintain clean work environment at all times, including and not limited to hygiene practices
• Capacity to perform basic computer transactions.
• Make safety a priority in daily operations by
• Providing suggestions for improvement to the health and safety program

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