Brief Description: Supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in packing products and material to ensure the end result meets quality standards before shipment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Observes packing operations to verify conformance to specifications.
- Interprets job work orders to workers and assigns duties.
- Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
- Monitors worker productivity.
- Motivates workers.
- Controls and implements job assignment/rotation plan for workers.
- Assures materials are being properly handled, routed, and controlled.
- Ensures that safety standards are adhered to.
- Examine work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
- Performs hourly checks on tables and tracks progress of workers.
- Verifies counts on material being packaged.
- Sets scale to determine the number of pieces each container requires for all orders requiring more than 10 items per container.
- Keeps track of scrap, inputs information into the computer, and prints out paperwork.
- Verifies packaging work orders.
- Pays close attention to dates on material in order to determine what material should be completed first.
- Communicates with supervisor when problems arise.
- Keeps track of daily labor sheet including part numbers.
- Assigns bags/boxes to material and creates a sample to be checked by a supervisor.
- Assigns table numbers to all material.
- Keeps track of own paperwork.
- Notifies supervisor when in need of a blueprint.
- Works in the flow of the line, as time permits and needs arise.
- Prints labels.
- Tally up production orders upon completion.
- Audits and closes tri wall.
- Double checks tags on tri wall to be sure they are correct.
- Be able to utilize the RF gun for put-away, picking and packing processes and perform all functions of a line leader associated with Caterpillar EWM processes
- Be able to utilize monitor to check job status and picks, and to correct issues when they arise.
- Adjusts paperwork when there are quantity discrepancies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Strength/Physical Demands:
- Occasional lifting or carrying of small tools or objects.
- Frequent lifting and carrying of up to 25-35 pounds
- Must be able to be on feet for 8 hours each day either standing or walking.
- Regularly required to bend, stoop, or reach with hands and arms while filling orders.
- Regularly required to use hands to handle objects or tools.
Work Conditions:
- Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
- The noise level in the environment is usually moderate.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of basic computer functions.
- Knowledge of basic mathematical functions and basic calculator functions.
- Knowledge of production equipment and tools such as electric hand jacks, electric tape machines, hand held tape guns, and heat sealers.
- Skill to communicate assignments to other employees.
- Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
- Ability to establish priorities, organize and proceed with objectives with minimal supervision.
- Ability to adapt to ever changing priorities and/or situations.
- Ability to pay attention to detail.
- Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.
- Ability to motivate other employees.
- Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.
Education/Experience:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 1 year experience in a managerial/supervisory role preferred.
- 1 year experience in a warehouse environment preferred.
