General Laborer

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
• Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Leadership - Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in industrial lab or manufacturing.

Skills and Abilities:

• Communication Proficiency
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Collaboration Skills

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending kneeling, stooping, crawling and climbing all day.
• The employee must frequently lift and move items up to 45 pounds

Work Environment:

• This position will operate in a professional office and application lab environment.
• This role will require the use of standard and technical office programs as well as chemical and other volatile laboratory equipment and products
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to wear P.P.E for exposure to fumes or airborne particles, been exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.
• Minimal travel may be required
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Your responsibilities

We’re seeking a reliable General Laborer to support our Compounds department in the St. Louis, MO chemical manufacturing plant. This General Laborer will be responsible for the weighing and processing of materials used at all stages of production.

• Execute proper work procedures to weigh, transport, store, sample, and load any raw material.
• Execute proper work procedures to transport, adjust, filter, sample, and package finished products or process by product.
• Perform routine duties according to SOPs (Standard Operating procedures).
• Must know and practice safety rules and regulations.
• Weigh out raw materials according to specific formulas.
• Keep accurate records and reports.
• Report any problems or situations to your supervisor.
• Communicate and cooperate with the entire work crew to achieve company goals and standards.
• Maintain good housekeeping in work area.
• Follow all company policies and procedures.
• Complete various production related logs to record data and or/defective product.
• Write tickets to route product to next phase of production.
• Weigh and measure products to be shipped.
• May use miscellaneous material handling equipment to move products.
• May unload raw material by hand or forklift.
• Effectively work and communicate with other department personnel.
• Promote a positive and respectful atmosphere.