Shipper- Weekend Nights

1950 Industrial Blvd Jasper Tennessee 37347-0438

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

A Brief Summary of This Position

Manually moves freight, stock, or other materials. Loads finished goods on to trucks. Understand all documents pertaining to storage, setting up and load. Maintains housekeeping in areas, observes all safety rules to company standards. Understands and participates in accurate department inventory and product staging procedures. Responsible for the checking of the proper identification of material being shipped by size, gauge, length, count and quality. Operates various forklifts, flat bed trucks and a variety of hand tools. Associate will also be expected to pick orders, manage inventory within a database and create BOLs (bills of lading).

Work Shift: Weekend Nights (6:00 pm - 6:15 AM) Friday - Sunday

Essential Functions

• Load product per shipping orders and pick sheet

• Operate various equipment including fork lift, flat bed trucks (yard dogs) and hand tools

• Report any unsafe conditions to supervisor

• Handle scrap from all departments as required and control the flow of scrap trailers

• Assist with cycle counts and material handling moves from staging to storage monthly

• Prepping poles for finisher (i.e. installing pole caps, throwing dunnage, nailing blocks, banding loads, banding pallets of goods, shrink wrapping pallets, installing barcode tags, etc.)

• Installing access covers for Bridge product and rivnuts

Important Details about the Role

• This position is also responsible for reporting any unsafe conditions to supervisor

• Perform daily Forklift and truck safety/inspection checks as required

• This position reports into the Shipping Supervisor and has no direct reports and no indirect reports

• Must be able to work either independently and/or in a team environment

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Ability to accurately read tape measures

• Ability to stand 90% of time

• Able to work outside in extreme heat or cold

• Able to operate forklifts, flat bed trucks and hand tools

• Must be accurate in logging inventory transactions in a variety of formats

• The ability to work overtime when required for business needs

• Must be forklift certified by the company

• Be able to work in fast paced high volume environment

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications

• No prior experience needed

Computer Software: List computer software used while performing the role.

• Outlook

• Workforce

• IFS

• TMS

• Excel

SKILL

Educational Background

Be able to read and write and have good basic math skills. Needs to be able to read a tape measure. Must be able to communicate well with others.

Job Training Skill Development

Must have ability to operate forklift, hand tools and yard truck. Must be able to back up yard truck with a 40' - 50' trailer on. Must be able to identify product size and gauge. Must be able to understand and follow division standard loading procedures and have a knowledge of loading materials, various types of trailers, accurately filling out pick sheets, creating pole lists, logging shop orders and shipping orders.

Decision Making

Identify proper loading as per loading instructions. Identify quality problems and bring to attention of supervisor. Resolve identification problems and equipment problems and notify supervisor. Must stage trailers with easy access to material being loaded. Ensure proper safety precautions are used during loading.

EFFORT

Working Conditions, Hazards, and Physical Effort :

The job is performed exclusively in an outdoor environment. The temperature range can vary. Most operations may expose associate to some type of disagreeable working conditions (wind, cold, heat, dust, dirt, fumes, noise, vibration, water, or oil). Working conditions may vary with specific work assignments. Exposure to grease, loud noises, and outside elements occur continually or regularly. Extreme care should be taken to prevent damage to equipment or department personnel in the area of operations especially when performing setups. The job requires safety glasses, hearing protection, and metatarsal safety shoes be worn at all times, where appropriate. The associate must be able to spend the entire work shift on their feet within the shop environment. The associate must also be able to wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE) for working in the production facility.

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

• 401k retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off

• Employer paid life insurance

• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

• Work Life Support

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology.

Valmont serves two primary markets — agriculture and infrastructure — and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries.

That’s what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world.

• That’s the value we add.