Warehouse Operator

**About Flora Food Group** We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business. Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents. **Warehouse Operator** **Shift: 3PM to 11PM** **Position Description** This position will be based in Brantford, Canada. Above all, the Warehouse Operator is to work safely by observing all safety rules, including proper utilization of lock out tag out. The Forklift Operator will operate power industrial equipment to transport materials throughout the factory. This position will be responsible for accurate inventory counts and transactions as well as following safe forklift operating procedures. The employee will be trained on operating specific machinery and doing all transaction in SAP for inbounds and outbounds including inventory management. **Core Responsibilities**: **Safety** - Knowledge and understanding of company safety policy, systems, and good practice relevant to Sourcing Unit and the responsibility placed upon individuals. - Ensure that procedures and practice adhere to safety policy and legislation. - Report all safety related issues and near misses to supervisor. If required will do the safety inspections in the operator's area. - Industrial vehicles must be operated in a manner so as not to endanger any person or property. All training guidelines must be followed. - Wear the required PPE while performing all job duties. - Safe, licensed operation of powered industrial vehicles - Required to complete and contribute to all relevant training and EWO and associated paperwork. **Workplace Hazards** - Full knowledge of the workplace and hazards within it. - Utilize appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products, and equipment relevant to the tasks in your area. - Work areas include conveyors and power industrial vehicles. - Work areas include machines that start and stop automatically. - Work areas may include cold work environments (PPE is provided). **Quality** - Knowledge of product quality and food safety procedures for the warehouse. - Must actively contribute to all the quality related training and complete assessments. - Monitors product and packaging to ensure they meet or exceed all quality standards and corrective actions are taken promptly upon discovery of an issue. - Identifies material defects at the point of receipt and notifies appropriate personnel, may include leads, supervisors, and quality. - Understands and adheres to color code. - Initiate and complete SNCRs as vendor sourced issues are identified. - Prioritizes Consumer Safety by adhering to the strict Food Safety and GMP requirements set by the company and may halt activities when there is potential risk for noncompliance. **Operational Activities** - Conducts effective hand-over activities and records accurately events that have occurred during shift and review schedule with previous shift. Discuss any changes made to the schedule and review any packaging issues. - Count all available packaging required for two shifts - current and following. Will do a complete count of all materials towards the end of A shift. - Review the production schedule. Contact the shipping office if packaging is needed by a certain time. If the information is not satisfactory, Contact production supervisor if there is not enough packaging to complete scheduled run. This will eliminate over batching and enable schedule changes to be made in a timely manner. - After reviewing packaging requirements with previous shift, should check in with the Lead-person to check how many packaging unloads they will have for the day. Responsible for checking in after each load and unload for the next assignment. - Check production lines for any upcoming line changes. - Make sure supplies are stored for all lines in a timely manner to avoid any downtime. - Inform the Supervisor of any packaging issues immediately. - Damaged packaging or ingredients must be reported on the "Report of Loss or Damage Form" This form must be filled out completely and given to the Warehouse Lead or Production Supervisor. - All packaging being pulled for production must be staged in the packaging staging area on the production floor. After changeovers all materials will be returned to warehouse after doing proper count and entering in SAP and with proper labels. - All defective packaging must have a Vendor Complaint Form filled in. A copy of this form will be attached to the pallets in question and given to the Production Supervisor. The palle