Job Description:
Job Description
Job: Forklift Operator/Production Utility
Shift: Days 6:00AM-6:30PM; 223 Rotating Shift
Location: Royal Canin (Fremont, NE)
Being a Mars Associate is all about opportunity. The opportunity to do the kind of challenging, interesting work that shapes the world’s best-loved brands. To work with real purpose, supported by talented, friendly people from all sorts of different backgrounds. Access the tools, training and experience you need to have a positive impact on our business, on the planet, and most importantly on your own career. Being a Mars associate is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to start your tomorrow today.
As part of our overall total compensation package, Royal Canin offers a competitive benefits package to all associates: Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, and 401k match. Associates are also immediately eligible (based on hire date) for up to three weeks of vacation, 12 Paid Holidays per year, Sick Pay, Maternity & Parental Leave, and annual bonus earning potential, plus many other ancillary benefits not listed here.
The Material Handler's role functions as a member of an area team that is directly responsible for the efficient production of quality products in the required quantities. This role will operate/change over specified machinery in the assigned area. Material Handlers must ensure efficiency, operational conformance, product quality and continuous improvement. Material Handlers must have the skills set to train and/or perform the tasks of other associates in the area as needed. This job requires strong communication, interpersonal and team building skills to support site objectives.
Responsibilities
Always operate equipment in a safe and efficient manner
Perform periodic and routine inventories of raw materials in storage
Provide and perform routine maintenance checks on equipment
Assist in other production, sanitation, maintenance, and quality activity in other areas as directed
Perform housekeeping and sanitation procedures
Provide functional communication with other staff members as necessary to optimize quality, efficiency, productivity and safety
Loading trucks, live loads and staged loads
Ability to operate Forklift – (Expert Level)
Direct ship responsibility including proper disposition of hold product, food safety hold product and released product
WMS, BOL responsibility / accountability
Support Warehouse Area Lead with all activities associated with shipping department
Standing on a concrete floor
Sitting, getting up and down off of a forklift often
Wearing proper personal protective equipment (hair net, bump cap, ear plugs, safety shoes, and uniform)
Bending, stooping, twist, turn, standing for extended time periods, reaching, climbing stairs, and lifting up to 55lbs
Must be able to adapt to temperature and environmental extremes such as hot to cold, dust dirt and chemicals
Vision correctable to 20/20
Qualifications
What can you expect from Mars?
Military & Veteran Leadership Equivalency Guide
At Mars, your operational command and personnel leadership are highly respected. If you served in any of the following leadership roles, your background is an exceptional fit for our Shift Manager position:
· U.S. Army: Platoon Sergeant / Section Chief (E-7/E-8), Platoon Leader (O-1/O-2), Maintenance Officer (915A/91A), Supply/Logistics Manager (92A/92Y). Your experience directing platoon-sized elements, enforcing safety/regulatory compliance, and coordinating mission-critical resources is a direct translation.
· U.S. Navy: Chief Petty Officer / Division Chief (E-7/E-8), Division Officer (O-1 to O-3), Logistics/Supply Officer, Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW). Your experience leading divisions of 25+ sailors, running complex shipboard watches, and overseeing training schedules is highly valuable.
· U.S. Air Force: Flight Chief / Section Chief (E-7/E-8), Flight Commander (O-1 to O-3), Logistics Readiness Officer (21R), Maintenance Superintendent (2AXXX). Your training in flight-line safety, standard operating procedures, and managing shift rotations directly aligns with our manufacturing floor.
· U.S. Marine Corps: Platoon Sergeant / Gunnery Sergeant (E-7/E-8), Platoon Commander / Company Executive Officer (O-1 to O-3), Maintenance Chief (E-7+), Logistics Officer (0402). Your proven track record in commanding field teams, building unit cohesion, and driving operational accountability matches our team-working principles.
· U.S. Coast Guard: Chief Petty Officer (E-7/E-8), Division Officer/Chief of Division (O-1 to O-3).
About Mars, Incorporated
Mars is a family-owned business with over a century of history, making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.
