Material Handler

What you will enjoy doing

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• Performing all activities needed to maintain material supplies in an efficient, careful, attentive way, observing good manufacturing practices and production, quality and safety standards
• Maintaining machines and equipment to ensure correct volumes and quality of raw material
• Ensuring material availability and accurate inventory: ensuring delivered materials are stored in the correct location, including labels; ensuring silo’s capacities are checked at shift start and finish to guarantee machines do not run out of material; checking with Supervisor at the beginning of shift for any pending color changes; ensuring a correct and accurate inventory is taken, as requested; reporting to Production Manager any anticipated shortages of colorants
• Ensuring efficient material usage: ensuring regrind waste is kept to a minimum and that any waste is recorded; ensuring any regrind that can be returned to the machines is returned as soon as possible
• Color Changes: ensuring all correct procedures are followed during a color change; ensuring materials no longer being used are returned to the correct area; ensuring material hoses are hooked up correctly
• Ensuring cleanliness of regrind room, label room and mezzanine
• Assisting Maintenance and Mold Change Team