Warehouse Team Member

From pioneers like Arthur Guinness, John Walker and Elizabeth Cumming, to the digital disrupters already shaping our future, at Diageo, we’ve never stopped looking forward. We’re continuing to build on our heritage and, with eCommerce at the heart of everything we do, we’re creating our legacy for tomorrow. Join us and explore new ways ahead with digital sales channels, consumer insight and data. As you help us to keep shaking up the market with industry-leading solutions, you’ll transform your career too. 

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Bulleit, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, we blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life. 

PAY RATE: $19.11/hour (upon hire for the 120 days of probation time); $23.89/hour thereafter.  $1/hour differential for overnights.

WORK LOCATION: Plainfield, Illinois

SCHEDULE: Shifts are currently allocated by seniority, new employees start with the overnight, 6 pm to 6 am.  Rotational Panama shifts of 12-hours. 24/7 operation.

About the role

At Diageo Plainfield, we seek to operate a Zero Harm environment. We believe everyone goes home safe, every day, everywhere! In this role you will promote and lead a spirit of “Safety First” in all other areas of the operation! The ability to address problems and work in highly effective teams is essential for success. As a self-motivated member of the Diageo Plainfield Team, you will provide support, training and mentor to your fellow team members, and encourage and engage others. You will have the opportunity to also work closely with multi-functional departments (Operations, Processing, Asset Care, Quality, and Logistics) to ensure the safe and efficient operation of all aspects of the facility. A few more things:

• Perform all job functions safely.
• Must be qualified to possess forklift operator’s license
• While performing the duties of the job, employee will be regularly exposed to work in busy, high traffic areas therefore, employee must be aware of all surroundings.
• Must regularly lift, push or pull up to +50 lbs.
• Regularly exposed to a noisy environment.
• Work in and around machinery, moving vehicles and pedestrians.
• Must wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hearing protection, safety glasses, safety toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, bump cap or hard hat, hair net, and beard net (if applicable).
• Continually improving warehouse operations.
• Meeting or exceeding department goals/Key Performance Indicators.
• Finding solutions to warehouse issues by using Root Cause Problem Solving.
• Optimizing yield and minimizing waste.
• Cross functional training in all distillation areas to support flexibility.
• Mopping and Sweeping Floors
• Using stretch wrap to cover pallets that the automatic system failed to cover.
• Picking up cases of product that have fallen off pallets weighing 10lbs to 40 lbs.
• Restacking pallets that driver knocked over.  This could mean restacking 70 cases weighing 40 lbs.
• Setting manual dock plates by pulling on a chain to release spring.  Force necessary to release spring is at least 50 pounds of effort.
• During shift drivers require overhead pulling to get on and off lift to do paperwork and talk to truck drivers.  This could be 15 – 20 times / hour.
• Some of our dock doors are manual, a chain is used to lower and raise the large doors.   Force necessary to raise doors is at least 62 pounds of effort.
• Some of our trailer doors are manual roll up/down doors and require overhead pulling.
• Lifting, moving, adjusting pallets prior to forklift picking them up.
• Moving and dumping garbage and recycle bins.
• Occasionally moving inbound receipt boxes / etc.

Physical Aspects:

Lifting - Minimum: 20 lbs constantly - Maximum: 100 lbs* occasionally

Repetitive Motion - Frequently manipulating controls on forklift.  Constant entering and exiting forklift

Dexterity - Frequent manipulating controls on forklift.  Frequent completion of paperwork

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