Brief Description: Operates the lifting and tilting controls and steers the forklift into position to load, move, transport, and stack goods and materials contained on pallets and/or crates.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Loads trucks, ensuring loads are evenly and securely placed.
• Unloads trucks, ensuring material is brought to the correct area.
• Follows safety procedures according to shop regulations.
• Moves raw materials and finished goods to processing or dock areas of the warehouse.
• Sorts material for required areas.
• Weighs material before loading trucks, if needed.
• Puts out paperwork, ensuring it is placed with the correct material, if needed.
• Moves pallets and crates when needed.
• Ensure goods are stored in the correct area of the warehouse so they may be located easily when processing orders.
• Communicates with supervisor if there is a problem with the forklift.
• Continuously inspects the forklift throughout the day to verify that the brakes, steering, etc. are working correctly.
• Completes a Pre-Start Up Safety Checklist every morning before operating the machine.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength Demands:

• Lifting and carrying of up to 20 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.
• Continuously getting on and off the forklift throughout the day.
• Bending and twisting.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Must wear safety seatbelt at all times while operating a forklift.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be able to cooperate/communicate with other employees, supervisors, and line leaders.
• Must be considerate to customers/truck drivers and have patience as they watch over the loading or unloading of their trucks.
• Knowledge of safety procedures and safety awareness.
• Knowledge of basic forklift operations.
• Knowledge of how the hydraulics system of a forklift works.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Coordination skills and good reflexes.
• Ability to water battery when necessary.
• Ability to judge distances.
• Ability to adjust to ever changing conditions in the warehouse.
• Ability to rotate to any area of the warehouse on a weekly basis.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Must be able to use RF gun to scan product for locating in correct to load trucks in shipping and unload in receiving.

Education/Experience:

• 1 year experience driving a forklift.
• 1 year experience working in a warehouse environment.
• Must pass in house certification.
• No educational requirement.

Brief Description: Responsible for checking in freight, directing fork truck drivers, and ensuring that all material is allocated to the appropriate station.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Checks in freight and UPS.
• Deciphers packing lists/freight bills.
• Ensures packing lists match the freight received.
• Verifies that all freight is correct.
• Directs assigned forklift operators.
• Ensures dock regulations are followed for the safety of workers.
• Hand counts any material that has less than 25 pieces.
• Keeps a log of material received whenever necessary.
• Writes up receiving reports.
• Assembles paperwork and ensures it is turned in on time.
• Communicates with the Shipping Dock Worker to help things run smoothly.
• Reports discrepancies to a supervisor.
• Trains new dock workers.
• Forklift experience.
• Other duties as assigned.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists forklift driver by placing paperwork out on the floor if time allows.
• Assists on the line whenever necessary.
• Assists Shopping Dock Worker if time allows.

Strength Demands:

• Lifting and carrying up to 20 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 75 pounds.

Work Conditions:

• Willing to work 40 hours per week.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of basic mathematical functions and basic calculator functions.
• Knowledge of receiving procedures.
• Ability to read and write.
• Ability to multitask and work through interruption.
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently, organize and proceed with objectives without supervision.
• Ability to work well with other employees and to pay attention to detail.

Education/Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 1 year experience in a warehouse in the receiving department.
• Experience as a forklift driver preferred.

Brief Description:  Performs detailed inspections in the Assembly and Sewing areas as per ISO Standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Completes inspections for each job by following the IPIR process and WI Safety Guidelines.
• Examine work for exactness, neatness, and conformance.
• Communicates with Supervisor when a nonconformance is indicated.
• Completes Inspector’s Daily Report
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Stand on your feet for 8 hours or more.
• Ability to stand, bend, and lift.
• May lift or move 10 pounds with occasional lifting up to 20 pounds.

Work Conditions:

• Fast-paced work environment.
• Willing to work 40 hours per week.
• Work with limited supervision and follow detailed instructions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be certified as an In-Process Inspector.
• Ability to communicate with others.
• Ability to handle pressure and conflict.
• Skill to work in team environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.

 Education/Experience:

• Manufacturing: 1 year (Preferred)
• High School Diploma or GED
• Pass the In-Process Inspection Quiz

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.

Brief Description: Operates electric powered sewing machine to produce a variety of items
such as straps, boots, aprons, and bags in accordance with customer specifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sets up sewing machine and selects threads.
• Discusses daily work requirements with the supervisor or lead person.
• Ensures that tasks are completed according to customer specifications.
• Alters the machine settings to suit the type of material.
• Uses marking pencil to track the area that must be sewn or cut.
• Follows appropriate instructions per job, positions the material together through the machine, and guides it through the machine.
• Inspects material and finished products to ensure that they meet customer specifications.
• Keeps samples of finished products to reference at a later date.
• Performs general preventative maintenance on sewing equipment.
• Helps put kits together or assists on the packing line when needed.
• Creates prototypes and samples of material when asked to.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Must have steady hands and good eyesight (with or without glasses).
• Good hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
• Regularly required to sit for long periods of time while tasks are being performed.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• Worker has moderate supervision at all times.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience using industrial sewing equipment and methods, needle sizes, fabrics, and machine-threading techniques.
• Must have good sewing skills and an eye for detail.
• Skill to perform tasks neatly, accurately, and carefully.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.
• Ability to perform tasks of a repetitive nature.
• Ability to follow instructions and remained focused.
• Ability to use a ruler to measure material before sewing.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.

 Education/Experience:

• No specific educational requirements.
• 1 year of experience with sewing operations in a production facility.