Your Role and Responsibilities

Job Summary:

The Warehouse Operator is responsible for safely and efficiently handling liquid and dry chemical products, ensuring accuracy, quality, and compliance throughout all warehouse and transfer operations. This hands-on role involves loading and unloading trucks, tankers, and railcars; operating forklifts and other industrial equipment; repackaging and labeling materials; and maintaining precise inventory records. No two days are the same; you will work with a variety of products, equipment, and processes in a fast-paced environment where attention to detail truly matters. If you take pride in doing things right, enjoy physical, active work, and want to grow your skills in a stable, safety-first company, we want to hear from you.

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Job Description:

General:

• Receive/unload and prepare/load liquid and dry chemical products from/to trucks, tankers, and railcars. This work is physical and requires attention to detail as follows:

  • Maneuver and connect/disconnect transfer hoses

  • Climb up tanks, tankers and railcars to open/close top hatches and monitor load

  • Inspect tanks, tankers and railcars before and after loading/unloading operations

  • Verify product against receiving/shipping documents, noting and reporting discrepancies and damages

  • Product sampling and quality control in conjunction with lab personnel

  • Maintain accurate receiving/shipping logs. Record amounts of product received or distributed via appropriate computer program

  • Picking and staging product for delivery in accordance with specifications on customer orders or other instructions

• Operation of powered and manual industrial lift trucks (with certification) to transport product in the warehouse, and maintain daily forklift checklist

  • Move raw materials to the production area and move finished products to the warehouse

  • Ability to lift and carry bags, pails, boxes, and pallets varying distances

  • Ability to stage and remove product packaging in complex storage racking within operating areas and warehouses ​

• Repackage product into proper containers for storage or shipment. This work is physical and requires attention to detail:

  • Fill cylinders, drums, totes, pails or tankers with product and route to prescribed storage locations making sure of proper labelling, storing, stacking, or palletizing according to company and regulatory requirements

  • Give special attention to packaging, loading and storing of food grade and USP items.

  • Operate electronic scale and process devices

  • Carefully store hazardous waste drums in the prescribed area in full compliance with hazardous waste regulations ​

• Responsibility for inventory

  • Examine stored product and report deterioration and damage

  • Rearrange stored materials

  • Assist in counting of physical inventory​

• General Maintenance

  • Ensure warehouse is clean, accessible and safe for all visitors and workers

  • When spills occur, responsible for immediate reporting and cleanup

  • Protect property from theft or damage​

• Other duties as assigned, including mixing and blending as required

Your Profile 

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma, general education degree (GED), or US military experience.

• Candidates with prior experience in working with chemical operations (2+ years) may be considered if education or service requirements are not fully met.

• Possess or able to pass exam to obtain Forklift Operators certification and demonstrate ability to operate a forklift safely.

• Ability to read, comprehend and carry out detailed and simple instructions in English and write simple correspondence.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure

• Ability to learn and operate technology-based devices such as smart phones, tablets, computers, PLCs, operational technology equipment, etc. to carry out normal business operation