Warehouse

Marzetti Company; Alabama; On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Marzetti Company in Alabama is seeking a Warehouse Associate to receive, store and ship materials in a safe, organized manner. You will operate lifting equipment, verify materials, and maintain accurate records to support production and distribution.

You must have 1–2 years of forklift experience, a HS diploma, and be able to work in cold environments. The role requires adherence to food safety and GMP standards and flexibility for overtime.

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain industrial truck operating certification.
• Communicate effectively to employees and management, verbally and in writing.
• Basic mechanical aptitude, computer use knowledge, and good math skills required.
• 1–2 years experience operating hi-lo, forklift, power jack and shrink wrap equipment.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to work in temperatures as low as -5 degrees.

Responsibilities

• Receives, ships, transfers and stores raw materials, packaging, and finished goods.
• Inspects and safely operates powered and non-powered lifting equipment.
• Loads shipments and unloads inbound materials meeting food safety requirements.
• Replenishes supplies to production areas as needed for continuous production.
• Maintains cleanliness and ensures proper labeling and locations for materials.
• Generates shipping labels, scans, and records counts for finished product.
• Assist warehouse management with inventories and audits.

Skills

Industrial truck certification

Communication skills

Mechanical aptitude

Forklift experience

Education: HS Diploma

Cold environment

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Hi-Lo forklift

Power jack

Shrink wrap equipment

Job description

Overview

Position Summary: Receives, ships, transfers and stores raw materials, packaging materials and finished products in a safe and organized manner. Maintains the quality of perishable items and inventories all warehoused goods. Supplies packaging and processing areas with supplies as needed to ensure continuous production. Maintains cleanliness of all areas of the warehouse to inspection ready at all times. Also, may be required to perform other duties.

Responsibilities → What You'll Do

• Inspects, safely operates, and maintains powered & non-powered lifting equipment
• Ensures receipt of raw materials, packaging materials and finished goods.
• Replenishes supplies, raw materials and packaging to production areas as needed.
• Loads shipments ensuring all food safety requirements have been met.
• Unloads inbounds ensuring all food safety requirements have been met.
• Unloads bulk inbounds ensuring all food safety requirements have been met.
• Warehouses raw materials, packaging and finished goods safely in designated areas.
• Properly scans raw materials, finished goods &packaging to correct locations.
• Legibly records all scans on written warehouse forms.
• Inspects finished goods for correct and/or missing lot code and count before warehousing.
• Shrink wraps finished product according to specifications
• Generates shipping labels, scans it into the system and applies to wrapped finished product.
• Reconcile production by comparing production scans to packaging counts per every skid of finished product produced.
• Rotates raw and packaging materials upon receipt and when returning to storage for later use.
• Ensures all packaging, raw materials and finished goods are properly labeled.
• Maintains company standards for cleanliness, food and equipment safety, and productivity.
• Ensures compliance to quality, food safety and HAACP support programs; assures conformity to all company, customer and government standards.
• Properly and legibly signs in/signs out carriers for loading & unloading; completing all necessary paperwork.
• Assist warehouse management with daily, monthly, quarterly and year end inventories.

Qualifications → What You'll Bring

• Must be able to successfully obtain industrial truck operating certification.
• Communicate effectively – verbally & in writing – to employees & Management
• Basic mechanical aptitude, computer use knowledge and good math skills are required.
• 1-2 years experience in operating hi-lo, fork truck, power jack and shrink wrap equipment.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to work in temperatures as low as -5 degrees

Working Conditions/Environment

Works in a manufacturing environment where the employee is regularly required to speak, read, sit, stand, walk, reach, lift, grasp, climb and bend while working in a fast-paced production environment. Must be able to push/pull 150 pounds short distances. May be required to work overtime and/or weekends as needed. The employee is regularly exposed to heat, fumes, odors, dust, oil, slippery floors, moving parts/equipment and non-toxic industrial waste and scrap. The noise level in the plant is loud. Earplugs, safety glasses and hairnets, beardnets (if facial hair exists) and steel-toed / slip-resistant shoes are required in the plant in accordance with company GMP and safety standards.

About Us

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery™ garlic breads, and Sister Schubert’s® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby’s® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States. At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.