Maintenance Materials Clerk (Nights)

Hilmar Cheese Company; Dalhart (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilmar Cheese Company is seeking a Maintenance Materials Clerk to monitor and maintain min/max levels for maintenance parts inventory. You will verify contents, counts, weights, and processes for incoming materials against packing lists and purchase orders.

Responsibilities include receiving materials, communicating issues and discrepancies, and safely moving shipments to storage while maintaining accurate inventory records and supporting ongoing training programs.

Qualifications

• Must be proficient in reading, writing, and speaking English.
• Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including weekends and overtime.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and warehouse management software.

Responsibilities

• Inspect incoming shipments and reject damaged items.
• Communicate concerns, discrepancies, and forecasts clearly to stakeholders.
• Safely operate a forklift or hand truck to move items from dock to storage or designated area.
• Allocate and distribute inventory items and tools.
• Maintain accurate data input of all inventory movements.
• Identify tags and ensure traceability of containers.

Skills

English proficiency

Physical strength

Education

High School diploma or GED

APICS accreditation or Parts Management experience

SAP experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Warehouse management software

SAP

Job description

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula. We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in more than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

A Typical Day

The Maintenance Materials Clerk is responsible for monitoring and maintaining min/max levels for maintenance parts inventory. Responsibilities will include, receiving materials, which include: verification of contents, counts, weights, or measures of incoming materials to information against packing lists and purchase order documents.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for examination of incoming shipments and rejection of damaged goods.
• Responsible for communicating in detail, professionally and respectfully all concerns, forecasting, overages, and/or discrepancies both internally and externally
• Required to safely operate a forklift or use hand truck or other hand tools to safely move incoming shipments from shipping and receiving dock to storage, or customer designated area.
• Responsible for allocation and distribution of parts, inventory items, and tools.
• Responsible for relieving off going shift/staff and taking over their duties that were not completed.
• Ability to follow-up on communications or requests, completing the request
• Responsible for data input of all part inventory movements.
• Responsible for Identification tags and traceability of all outside inventory containers contents.
• Responsible for completion of cycle counts on a weekly basis.
• Responsible for the efficient and orderly operation of the stock room.
• Responsible for receiving and storing a wide variety of materials, supplies, parts, simple hand tools, etc.
• Responsible for selecting and properly identifying suitable storage locations, such as shelves, bins, containers, and racks for all articles.
• Responsible for setting up new stock items to a storage bin location
• Accurately fills orders to reservations and/work orders a timely manner.
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off.
• Assist in coaching and training teammates and participate in on-the-job training.
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures and completion of log sheets. This includes communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates and participating in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required.
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by always having a safety-first approach. This includes reporting any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your leadership team, teammates and follow up. As well as wearing all required PPE per Hilmar’s policies
• Ability to read, understand, and follow Hilmar SOP’s
• Availability to help in other areas as required

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• Must be able to work 12 hour shifts, including weekends, holidays and over time as needed
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Word, Excel and Outlook
• Knowledge of warehouse management software
• Ability to lift up to 60lbs

What Will Put You Ahead

• High School diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• APICS accreditation or Parts Management experience
• SAP experience
• Inventory control experience with MRO materials or related field
• Skilled as a Chemical Receiver or Central Receiving Clerk (Level 2 roles)

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within their respective areas.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.