Materials Technician - 3rd Shift
Cummins Turbo Technologies
DESCRIPTION
Under direct or close supervision, follow established procedures and guidelines to receive, handle, store, perform system transactions and dispatch goods in a factory or warehouse. Receive incoming goods; check for damage and for discrepancies between goods and invoices. Accurately sort, label, and store goods; arrange storage to optimize warehouse space. Pick, pack, and dispatch outgoing goods according to written or verbal requests or orders.
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensuring Safety: By stopping work and reporting any major injury hazards immediately, you’ll help maintain a safe working environment.
• Compliance and Reporting: Your adherence to HSE standards and prompt reporting of any work-related injuries, illnesses, incidents, or hazards will ensure compliance and improve workplace safety.
• Environmental Stewardship: Recognizing the environmental impact of your work and striving to minimize negative effects will contribute to sustainable practices.
• Quality Assurance: Performing quality checks and identifying non-conforming materials will help maintain high standards and reduce costs.
• Efficient Delivery: Accurately receiving, sorting, labeling, and storing goods will optimize warehouse space and ensure timely delivery to customers.
• Team Collaboration: Effective communication with your team and support staff will foster a collaborative work environment and improve overall efficiency.
• Continuous Improvement: Actively participating in training and improvement initiatives will enhance safety, quality, and process efficiency.
• Maintaining Order: Keeping your work area clean and orderly, and performing routine maintenance tasks, will contribute to a well-organized and efficient workplace.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Competencies:
• Collaboration: Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with your team to achieve shared goals. Effective teamwork will enhance productivity and create a supportive work environment.
• Effective Communication: Develop and deliver clear, multi-mode communications tailored to the unique needs of different audiences. This will ensure everyone is on the same page and can work efficiently.
• Customer Focus: Establish strong relationships with customers and provide solutions that meet their needs. A customer-centric approach will help in delivering high-quality service and maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Decision Quality: Make timely and well-informed decisions to keep operations running smoothly. Good decision-making skills are crucial for addressing challenges and seizing opportunities.
• Driving Results: Consistently achieve your targets, even under challenging circumstances. Your ability to deliver results will be key to your success and the success of the organization.
• Accountability: Hold yourself and others accountable for meeting commitments. Ensuring accountability will help maintain high standards and reliability within the team.
• Self-Development: Actively seek opportunities for growth and challenge yourself through both formal and informal development channels. Continuous learning will keep you adaptable and prepared for future challenges.
• Warehouse Operations: Utilize warehousing tools, systems, and methodologies effectively to meet metrics for inbound and outbound operations. Efficient warehouse management is essential for smooth logistics and inventory control.
• Valuing Differences: Recognize and appreciate the value of diverse perspectives and cultures. Embracing diversity will foster an inclusive environment and drive innovation.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Minimal or no work experience required.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Duties include forklift operations, verifications of part number, quantity, and location accuracy of material in warehouse and on assembly floor.
• Perform system transactions associated with receiving/warehousing/packaging/shipping.
• Continually achieve inventory accuracy, delivery, and production performance goals. Track, measure, and provide explanation to variances to goals or metrics daily, monthly, and annually.
• Actively participate on Continues Improvement teams within the Materials department to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and improve quality and safety.
• Cross train and learn all functions and work tasks within the Materials department.
• Maintain accurate process documentation.
• Learn and understand the Laurinburg materials process and functional work requirements.
• Provide support on projects as required.
• Assist team in meeting all daily schedules on time within Receiving, Warehouse, Packaging, Shift Tower, and Shipping.
• Build team disciplines to maintain plant/corporate expectations for policies and procedures, safety, housekeeping (5S) & environmental (ISO 14001); quality TS16964; HR, production, IT, finance, materials, maintenance, and engineering while achieving or exceeding the Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost goals.
• Maintain safety, housekeeping, productivity, and quality goals and provide baseline data for measuring improvements.
• Minimize non-value-added processes, scrap and other manufacturing expenses including excessive overtime.
• Comply with all Meritor environmental (ISO 14001) and quality TS16964 policies.
• All other job tasks as required by leadership.
• Experience in Forklift operations an advantage
• Self-motivated to take actions that meet the goals of the department
• An accurate knowledge of part numbers, storage locations and quantities
• Computer/Cullinet experience with Receiving/Warehouse/Shipping transactions is an advantage
• Understand importance of inventory accuracy and on-time delivery of parts
• Excellent attendance, time management and housekeeping skills
• Flexible to work multiple shifts as needed
• Ability to work well with others in a team-based environment
• Must be physically able to lift, pick/pull and package parts.
• Cross-train for all logistics area positions up to Level IV
• Demonstrate a high degree of accuracy and urgency in accomplishing tasks
• Previous experience in material handling and supply chain logistics is an advantage
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn and understand materials transactions and impact to the plant operation
• Ability to give and receive feedback
• Possess a valid motor vehicle driver license.
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