Finishing Material Handler

DARRAN Furniture Industries, Inc.; High Point (NC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

DARRAN Furniture Industries, Inc. in High Point, NC is seeking a Material Handler to move materials and support production using a forklift, ensuring accurate handling and timely staging.

The role requires a high school diploma or GED, forklift certification, and 2 years of furniture industry experience preferred, with duties including loading/unloading, expediting coordination, and maintaining organized inventory.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Must be trained and qualified to operate a tow motor (forklift).
• Minimum 2 years Furniture Experience preferred.
• Ability to read work orders, drawings and route sheets in great detail.

Responsibilities

• Read work orders to determine materials or containers to move.
• Load and unload materials onto pallets or shelves using forklift or by hand.
• Coordinate with expeditors to ensure items reach staging on time.
• Document discrepancies and notify Supply Chain Management.
• Inspect stain/color upon receipt and notify supplier if adjustments are needed.
• Move loads to designated locations and maintain organized work areas.
• Contribute to weekly/monthly inventory and material ordering.
• Provide supplies within department as needed.

Skills

Forklift operation

Read work orders

Route sheets interpretation

Basic math

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

All DARRAN Employees are responsible for understanding and applying DARRAN’s Quality Policy to ensure that quality objectives are met. All Employees are to fulfill the training requirements, follow procedures, and utilize their knowledge, abilities and skills while performing all responsibilities in a manner that ensures the quality expectations and requirements of every internal and external customer are met and exceeded.Employees must show respect for others, use good decision making, personally sacrifice for the team’s benefit, share in the team’s workload, take responsibility for action items, follow good communication processes, and take responsibility for all actions.Often using a forklift, hand truck, and other machinery, Material Handlers accept, count, and then move materials to designated locations or specific departments. The material handler position move loads to and from machines and inspection areas. This position must work very closely with the expeditors, lead people and supervisors of all areas to insure that all work at the bottleneck machines is well planned. They must find ways to improve the flow of product to make the operation more efficient.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Receiving MaterialLoads, unloads, and moves materials within or near all DARRAN Facilities, performing any combination of the following duties: Reads work orders or follows oral instruction to ascertain materials or containers to be moved.Loads and unloads materials onto or from pallets, trays, racks, shelves, etc. using forklift, other material movers or by hand if required.Communicate with supervisor and expeditors on critical items ensuring those items get to their proper staging place in the time required.Work with both expeditors to check materials in and out of plant(s) as needed.Document and notify Supply Chain Management in case of discrepancy or problem found with parts.Inspect stain/color upon receipt, notify supplier if adjustments are needed.Pump roomMake sealer and topcoat based on formulation.Ensure agitators are on pails and barrels.Fill color, top coat, and sealer as needed.Provide supplies within department as needed.Keep pump room clean and organized.Conduct inventory on a weekly/monthly basis.Order materials.Swap out spray guns weekly.Other responsibilities as assigned by manager.Knowledge / Experience / Skills:High school diploma or GED RequiredMust be trained and qualified to operate a tow motor (forklift).Ability to add, subtract, multiply, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.Minimum 2 years Furniture Experience preferred.Ability to read work orders, drawings and route sheets in great detail.