Forklift Operator Days

**Job Description:** Job Description **Job: Forklift Operator/Material Handler** **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** * Be 18 years of age or older * Have a High school diploma, GED or equivalent education * Must be willing and able to work and accept varying shifts and schedules * Ability to understand and effectively communicate in the English language * Forklift certified * Knowledge of inventory computer systems WMS * Food manufacturing experience and knowledge of food safety * Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices **What can you expect from Mars?** * Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles. * Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. * Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. * An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus. **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.