Location: Clarksville,TN, USA
Material Handler
Tracking Code 12878-159 Job Description **OPPORTUNITY:** We are a Foodservice cup forming / folding carton manufacturing operation seeking candidates to join our Clarksville, TN team. **This job posting is for a Material Handler with a pay range of $14.17/hour to $15.95/hour plus shift differential and progressive pay increases.** We continually encourage our employees to advance their careers through on the job training and job progression through our strong promotion from within program. Many of our roles are skilled trade positions and our employees build successful careers in the Printing & Packaging industry with an earning potential to **$26.59/hour plus shift differential**. We offer a wide array of benefits including, but not limited to, Paid Vacation & Holidays, optional Health, Dental, and Life Insurance, including health spending accounts and a progressive healthy lifestyle program, as well as 401-K with a company matching component and standard supplemental company contributions. Employees may voluntarily elect Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance Programs, Purchasing Power, Tuition Reimbursement, Aflac, Lifelock Identity Protection, and Hyatt Legal Services. Tabaco Cessation and Employee Assistance/Referral Program, Uniform Service, Safety Shoe, and Safety Prescription-Eyewear benefits are also available.
**POSITION SUMMARY**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
**KEY FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES**
Load pallets, boxes, and product on trucks.
Maintain safety and good housekeeping, including clean warehouse on a daily basis.
Drive liquefied gas, or battery powered industrial trucks equipped with lifting devices such as forklift or clamps, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials.
Move levers and presses pedals to drive an industrial lift truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
Position forks or clamps under or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials and transports the load to the designated area.
Unload and stack material by raising and lowering lifting device.
Load and unload materials onto and off of pallets and skids.
Maintain all paperwork on shift to include successful completion of bill of lading.
Lubricate truck, changes, services and recharges batteries, replaces liquefied gas tank.
Inspect all equipment and perform daily operator maintenance on the trucks.
Report all incidents and accidents.
Determine space requirements and position of shipment in trucks and lays out position *of* shipments.
Receive incoming materials, records receipt, and stores in the appropriate location.
Perform other duties that may be assigned.
Required Skills High school education or GED equivalent.
Forklift and high reach experience.
Extensive standing, some bending, lifting/moving required.
Good vision and equilibrium.
Regularly required to stand for long periods; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms.
Good hand -eye coordination is essential.
Occasionally required to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include distance, peripheral, and
depth perception.
Frequently exposed to fumes, or airborne particles.
Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, and outside weather conditions.
Required Experience
At Graphic Packaging International (NYSE: GPK), we produce the box you may have poured your child's cereal from this morning, the microwaveable tray that heated your lunch, the paper cup that held your coffee throughout the day, and the carrier of those bottles of craft beer you may enjoy tonight! We're one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world's most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet care products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are a team of collaborative, innovative, passionate individuals who are committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference.
With almost 18,000 employees working in more than 70 locations in North and South America, Europe and the Pacific Rim, we strive to be an environmentally responsible leader in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry's best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.
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Inspired Packaging. A World of Difference.
Graphic Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. .
Job Location Clarksville, Tennessee, United States Position Type Full-Time/Regular Salary Grade 72 ** Apply**
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