Unjammer/Manual Encoder

Job Title

Unjammer/Manual Encoder

Job Description

Overview: The Manual Encoder Operators/ Unjammer are responsible for assisting the Maintenance team with system housekeeping and clearing baggage jams within the baggage handling system including responding to faults, resetting security routing failures, other minor faults of the baggage handling system and operate the system manual  encode stations.

Key responsibilities:

• Exercise safe working practices at all times, demonstrating and complying with all Company safety policies, including but not limited to personal protection equipment, following Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) procedures.

• Clear bag jams and respond  to trouble  calls regarding the Baggage Handling System

• Maintain cleanliness of system, providing cleaning including but not limited to sweeping, housekeeping, collecting trash, cleaning dust and debris and general housekeeping of area around system

• Responsible for operations of Manual  Encode  Station

• Monitor the manual encoding station to manual scan bags that have been held by the system due to size or jams.

• Responding in a timely manner to dispatched calls

• Demonstrate good mechanical aptitude and comprehensive skills

• Monitor the BHS system from control room as needed

• Follow instructions from control room operators, technicians and supervisors on maintenance needs

• Operate Load Correcting Zone

• Clean BHS equipment and areas.

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent

• Minimum technical experience in an industrial environment

• Flexible work schedule for 24/7 operations

• Valid Driver’s License

• Must be able to attain and sustain an Airport I.D. Badge, and airport driving permit and a CBP Security seal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year working experience in an material handling (baggage handling, material, warehouse, distribution center, etc) environment

• Technically inclined, with potential to learn and grow into maintaining material handling systems

• Basic Computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office products

Knowledge-Skills-Abilities:

• General knowledge of conveyor systems.

• Ability to be flexible and shift priorities quickly based on staff and system needs

• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Strong work ethic and takes initiative

• Customer and service oriented

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Full time position; 24/7 operation; 3 shifts available; overtime and weekend work is common.

Travel:
This position requires up no travel.  

Supervisory Responsibility:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands for this position are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate (transmit, convey, receive) information.   The specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is frequently (26% to 74%) required to climb; reach; sit; and access confined spaces that require kneeling, crawling, and other positions that require physical maneuvering. The employee is frequently required to work at heights.  The employee is constantly (75% or more) required to move and lift objects (luggage bags, stack of tubs, tools, equipment, parts, etc.) of up to 50lbs; bend/twist; stoop; stand; walk; push-pull.  The employee is occasionally (up to 25% of the time) required to carry and transfer up to between 50 and 120lbs. 

Work Environment 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud due to aircraft engines and equipment. 

Employee works in the secured baggage handling area, repai