Finishing Material Handler (24136)

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 Material

• Loads, 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 room

• Make 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 Required
• Must 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.