Shipping and Crate Specialist

About AMF

WE RISE TOGETHER!

At AMF, we are dedicated to working alongside our customers to produce better food for families around the world while creating better lives for our teammates, families, customers, and communities.


AMF Bakery Systems is the world's largest manufacturer of high-speed bakery equipment. We provide complete automated bakery solutions for numerous categories, including Soft Bread and roll, Artisan Bread, Cake and Pie, Pizza and Flatbread and Pastry and Croissant. AMF is part of the Markel Food Groups, the leading equipment supplier to food manufactures around the world.


Our culture and shared values are spelled out in "The Markel Style" as we encourage and recognize teammates that bring these values to life each day. With the style as our guide, our teams pursue excellence while keeping a sense of humor. Seeking to know our customers' needs, we aim to build financial value for our shareholders while sharing success with others and winning together. We are inspired to work hard and encouraged to challenge management to find better ways of doing things. At AMF, we believe in fostering the professional development and personal potential of our diverse workforce.


If you're searching for the next company to call home, AMF Bakery Systems provides a teammate-centered culture with exciting career growth opportunities. We strive to build extraordinary teams by seeking out a wide range of talent, experiences, and diverse backgrounds. Diversity of thought and the collaboration of various life experiences are what drive growth and innovation at AMF.


Job Description

Designs, builds, and confirms contents of items in custom crates for shipment and supporting warehousing functions including pulling work orders, and parts orders, receiving goods into stock, placing received items on the shelves, packing, and processing all orders for shipment

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Include, but not limited to:

• Meet all safety procedures and policies are followed
• Design, Build and prepare skids for cross- functional teams
• Put product away in assigned locations with proper tags attached
• Receive incoming goods from vendors and internal customers
• Distribute received goods to machines or shelves
• Accurately pull, count, and issue products from racks for delivery to various production areas
• Load and unload trucks as necessary
• Pack and/or crate parts for shipment
• Arrange shipments with freight carriers
• Process orders through the UPS System as necessary
• Process shipping documents for machines and parts
• Inventory checking/counting annually and as required
• Assisting the implementation of Continuous Improvement initiatives.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities :

Include, but not limited to:

• Ability to operate a Forklift Truck in a safe manner
• Load and unload trucks as necessary
• Ability to comprehend verbal and written instructions
• General warehouse experience preferred
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks
• Computer literate
• Knowledge using MS Office products

Working Conditions :

• Typical manufacturing facility conditions
• Indoors (95%) and outdoors (5%) working conditions
• Employees must be able to stand on concrete floors for a minimum of eight hours. Kneeling, squatting, bending over and standing for long periods of time may be required to perform assigned tasks
• Safety steel-toed shoes and safety glasses are required
• Long pants and a sleeved shirt (short sleeve at a minimum) are required

Additional Duties/Responsibilities: Include, but not limited to:

• Be highly motivated
• Understand verbal, written, and drawn engineering instructions
• Maintain work area cleanliness and functionality
• Perform all assigned tasks in a limited amount of time, with expected quality, and while following safety practices

Education/Experience: Include, but not limited to:

• Trade school or other experience preferred