TreeHouse Foods

Material Handler


Pay$19.25 / hour
LocationLancaster/Pennsylvania
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: R26399

      Employee Type:

      Full time

      Location:

      PA Lancaster

      Job Type:

      Production Maintenance

      Job Posting Title:

      Material Handler

      About Us:

      TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

      What You Gain:

      • Competitive compensation and benefits program
      • Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
      • Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
      • An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
      • Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
      • Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

      Job Description:

      ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

      • Receives production orders and plans day to make sure that materials are delivered promptly from warehouse to line to ensure that production standards are met. Remove and replace unused material. May move product or supplies to and from other warehouses.
      • Ensures customer orders are filled correctly by accurately reading production shop order sheet, noting special instructions and color pen designation. Fill out paperwork as per procedures.
      • Prepares stock for shipment by securing product with stretch wrap slip-sheet or pallet product.
      • Transports product from production floor to trucks or warehouse using forklift or slip sheet lift.
      • Loads trucks by hand or with forklift according to truck loading procedures.
      • Properly fills out load tallies according to procedures.
      • Removes trash product from oven and production floor and move to waste dumpster.
      • Maintains material handling equipment by completing pre-use inspection; making operator repairs such as changing batteries.
      • Ensures good manufacturing procedures by following housekeeping standards and assisting in sanitation duties as needed.
      • Ensures efficient and quality production and positive employee relations by complying with all employment policies, rules, regulations, safety procedures, good manufacturing procedures, product protection standards and actively participating in all training requirements.

      Additional Tasks:Contributes to team effort by performing other assigned duties as needed. Maintains cooperative relationship with coworkers and management by communicating necessary information, responding to requests, building rapport; and participating in problem solving methods. Follows and enforces standards for food safety and food quality production reflected in SQF as well as the regulations of major vendors and governmental agencies such as OSHA, FDA and EPA and assures associates are consistently trained in these standards and comply with all requirements

      Job Qualifications

      Essential knowledge, skills, abilities and experience:

      • High School, technical school education or equivalent.
      • Ability to be organized, multitask and keep up with multiple fast-paced machines.
      • Mechanical ability to run equipment and use small hand tools.
      • Basic math and measuring ability.
      • Mental alertness to identify and react to machine process, quality issues and safety issues such as lock out/tag out.
      • Ability to comprehend written and oral communication and apply commonsense understanding to carry out and follow instructions and standard procedures.
      • Ability to read production orders and machine specifications.
      • Ability to use computers for data entry.
      • Ability to work as a team player.
      • Ability to communicate information one-on-one and in small group situations.
      • Ability to keep up with fast-paced conveyor line.
      • Ability to drive forklift and to pass in-company forklift driver training program.
      • High degree of attention to drive safely required to prevent injury to others.
      • Mental alertness to identify quality issues.

      Rate: $19.25

      2nd Shift 3pm to 11pm

      Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away!

      Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team!

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  • About the company

      Rooted in tradition and built with a strategic vision, TreeHouse Foods provides private label food and beverage offerings to retail grocery and food away from home customers across North America. TreeHouse’s branches extend across multiple product categories providing custom solutions for most of the leading grocery retailers and food service operators in the United States and Canada. Our growing product portfolio includes: Baked Goods, Condiments, Snacks, Meals and Beverage. Customers partner with TreeHouse to receive the best service, quality and value for their custom brands. Our integrity, operational excellence and market insights have made for a great view up here at TreeHouse and we like what we see on the horizon.