Distribution Fork Lift Driver - General Mills

Are you looking to feel valued at a company?

General Mills, Inc. manufactures some of the most beloved foods in the world, including Cheerios and Lucky Charms, Nature Valley granola bars, Totino's pizza rolls, and Yoplait yogurt. Blue Buffalo became part of General Mills in 2018, so even your pets love us too.

We are looking for team members who come to the table with a shared passion for making food the world loves, to solve problems and shape General Mills for the future. As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for processing operations, sanitation and participation in startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment.

General Mills encourages growth for our employees; if you want to learn new things, attain, and prove competency quickly, and apply technology in the manufacturing space; GMI is a great place to start.

Distribution Clerk 3

What your compensation will look like:

• • $22.43 per hour (12 Hour Night shift)
  • We are currently hiring for (Night shift)
  • Up to 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually (depending on your schedule) and 11 paid company holidays
  • Great paid time off benefits
  • 401(k) match
  • Health Insurance includes medical, dental and life
  • And much more

What your day will look like:

• Unload raw material components from a trailer into the ASRS and maintain the HAACP inspection procedure and documentation.
• Receive spice and properly mark the date of manufacture on each pallet, then store each pallet using FIFO (first in, first out).
• Inspect proper start-up, shutdown, and sampling procedures for receiving bulk oils. Ensure the completion of HAACP and GMP’s procedures and documentation.  Responsible for executing oil spill procedures.
• Properly inspect outbound trailers using HAACP inspection procedure and documentation. Followed by loading finished cubes to a product to truck order.  Knowledgeable in the completion of the outbound order and the staging of finished cubes into the proper bay roll.
• Deliver materials to the Operations as needed to support production.
• Off load finished stretched wrapped cubes from the end of the conveying system and staging on the floor or on top of the same SKU cube (double stack). Able to change ribbon, label stock and stretch film when necessary.
• Verify, unload, stage, and store inbound packaging materials consisting of corrugated, film pouch and other miscellaneous items into their proper locations.
• Properly stage-packaging materials for the production floor according to the daily production schedule.
• Capable of troubleshooting issues associated with the ASRS, labelers, Lantech stretch wrapper, conveying systems and Red Prairie equipment.
• Ensure the delivery of UPS packages to the proper personnel. Also, capable of setting up UPS outbound shipments.
• Load recycled totes, wooden pallets, and bailed scrap plastic or corrugated into the predetermined supplier’s trailers.
• Repackage damaged goods, as directed by the Distribution lead person or team leader.
• Follow all company safety policies and procedures to ensure a safe working environment.
  • Maintain a clean and organized work area. Responsible for the cleaning of forklifts, conveying and stretch wrapping systems, racking and warehouse floor and dock area.  Proficient in the operation of a floor scrubber.
  • Maintain forklift Certification in current status with good safety record and successful completion of all initial and re-certification testing. Assure that all vehicles are inspected on a daily basis.
• Assist in cycle counting and physical inventory as requested by inventory analysis.
• Receive and issue packaging materials utilizing Red Prairie system.
• Complete additional work assignments as assigned by Team Leader.

What your growth will look like:

• Be a part of a team that will learn and grow
• Develop leadership skills, that will allow you to focus on new KNOWLEDGE and ability to adopt and implement those ideas
• Ability to operate within a safety culture
• Expanded technical capabilities

What you have to offer:

• Minimum of a high school education or GED
• Experience in a manufacturing/production environment preferred
• 1 to 2 years of experience in material handling
• Basic ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
• Advanced and Lead positions require additional experience with automated and/or electronic inventory systems and direct supervisory experience or demonstrated supervisory potential
• Ability to solve diverse procedural problems within well-defined standards by selecting from learned responses.

Equipment Used:

• ASRS storage system
• Red Prairie, computer, scanning equipment
• Highlift, regular forklift, push/pull forklifts, clamp forklifts, knives, calculators, copier, step ladders, pens, clipboards, phones
• Electric and manual pallet jacks
• Lantech stretch wrapper, conveying systems (Knafman), oil cart and accessories,
• Rags, broom, mop, bucket, Tennant floor scrubbers.

Physical requirements: 

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
• Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces

• Hands to finger, handle or feel packages, boxes, etc; and reach with hands and arms. 

• Regularly required to climb or balance; talk or hear; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. 

• Required to sit on a forklift truck and disembark to a standing position from a forktruck.

• The employee must occasionally move more than 100 pounds utilizing a pallet jack.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working condition.

• Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery

• Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment

   

The health and safety of our employees – and the food we make – is our top priority. We were an early adopter in instituting protection measures in

our plants during the pandemic and continue to implement a number of safety precautions to protect our employees.