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Loader – Lumber Yard

Job Title: Loader – Lumber Yard
Salary Type: Hourly
Salary:
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Greater Lansing, MI area
Job Description:
  • Load proper material on outbound trucks and ensure units are properly banded
  • Properly mark units with ship dates on the placard and ensure loads are accurate to the shipping form
  • Use RF Scanning Gun to pull each unit and prepare shipping paperwork
  • Load customer pickups and keep the treated side of the year neat, organized, and clean.
  • Must keep all outbound trucks loaded in set amount of time and allow flow of traffic as set with the time schedule
  • Maintains a high level of attention to detail on orders loading into RF Scanning Gun, selects each piece of lumber from instructions on scanning gun
  • Communicates effectively with Shift Supervisor on quality of product
  • Perform Lockout procedures as needed.
  • Responsibly follow all safety procedures and policies, work together with co-workers to ensure a safe working environment and report all accidents or unsafe conditions to the supervisor.
  • Properly logs maintenance required for fork truck and sign out sheet
  • Sweep the floors, pick up broken pieces of lumber, and shovel debris.
  • Clean the break room and bathrooms when designated.
  • Paint handrails and performs other light maintenance items as needed.
  • Sort materials such as nuts, bolts, etc. in to the correct container.
  • Climb and descend a flight of stairs several times per day
  • Stand for 90 % of an 8 hour shift
  • Bend and lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Manipulate hand tools such as picks to uncross and straighten boards.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Diploma or GED, writing, and math ability demonstrated by high school diploma or equivalent.
  • Must be able to understand and follow verbal and written instructions.
  • General Lumber knowledge such as log sizing and quality terminology is required.
  • Most often these skills are acquired through a minimum of 6 months of previous work experience in the plant.
  • Previous experience using a Warehouse Management System and RF Scanner preferred
  • Previous experience operating a hydrostatic fork truck preferred
  • Reading, writing, and math competency demonstrated by high school diploma or equivalent.
Employer: Personnel World
Address: 924 Centennial Way, Suite 400, Lansing, MI 48917
Email:
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If you are interested in applying with Personnel World, please fill out our online application and cut and paste your resume (RTF).  If you do not hear from us with 48 hours from submitting your application, please contact our office at 517-323-3500.

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Lumber Treater

Job Title: Lumber Treater
Salary Type: Hourly
Salary: $14.00 – $15.00/hour
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Greater Lansing, MI area
Job Description:
  • Ensure all treated products meet quality control standards.
  • Ensure all units are properly banded before being treated
  • Pressure treat units according to specific treating requirements
  • Transfer lumber from infeed to cylinder
  • Transfer treated product from treating cylinders to outfeed
  • Monitor chemical usage
  • Quality control of chemical mixtures
  • Quality control of all charges
  • Monitors and performs minor adjustments to machines
  • Dispose of hazardous waste according to OSHA regulations
  • Maintain required production levels by working safely and efficiently
  • Maintain a safe workplace and culture, and complete required safety forms, checklists and permits.
  • Perform Lockout procedures as needed.
  • Responsibly follow all safety procedures and policies, work together with co-workers to ensure a safe working environment and report all accidents or unsafe conditions to the supervisor.
  • Sweep the floors, pick up broken pieces of lumber, and shovel debris.
  • Climb and descend a flight of stairs several times per day
  • Stand for 75 % of an 8 hour shift
  • Bend and lift up to 50 lbs.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Must be able to understand and follow verbal and written instructions.
  • General Lumber knowledge is preferred.
  • Reading, writing, and math competency demonstrated by high school diploma or equivalent.
  • 1 year quality control experience required
  • Intermediate computer knowledge
Employer: Personnel World
Address: 924 Centennial Way, Suite 400, Lansing, MI 48917
Email:
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If you are interested in applying with Personnel World, please fill out our online application and cut and paste your resume (RTF).  If you do not hear from us with 48 hours from submitting your application, please contact our office at 517-323-3500.

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Lumber Yard – General Labor

Job Title: Lumber Yard
Salary Type: Hourly
Salary: $11.00
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Greater Lansing, MI area
Job Description: All work is done outside or in warehouses that are not climate controlled

  • Place band separators in between units according to unit requirements
  • Remove all foreign objects from units
  • Manually maneuver boards to ensure proper unit size and dimension
  • Visually inspect units for imperfections
  • Stack individual units into multiple units for treating or kiln drying
  • Use nail gun to secure fence pickets together
  • Stack fence panels into unit sizes required by each order
  • Using a tagging gun, put customer required stickers on individual pieces of a unit
  • Monitor and prevent tags from running out
  • Have a high level of attention to detail, ensuring tags are placed in same directions on each individual piece
  • Ensure each piece has a tag
  • Assist the planer supervisor in inventory checks at the discretion of the planer supervisor.
  • Communicate with the stacker operator and out feed forklift driver to ensure that the operations run as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
  • Make certain that all lumber is run out before shutting down operations unless otherwise directed.
  • Pick up and dispose of all sticks and broken lumber.
  • Inspect work station, staple/nail gun, and air lines daily to ensure preventative maintenance can be done.
  • Responsibly follow all safety procedures and policies, work together with co-workers to ensure a safe working environment, and reports all accidents or unsafe conditions to supervisor.
  • Wrap needed products with paper wrap.
  • Clean control rooms, break rooms, bathrooms, the planer pit, around the shavings systems, sweep floors, and the floor around and under your work center, utilizing all necessary lock-out procedures as needed.
  • Paint hand rails and guards.
  • Maintain a safe workplace and culture, and complete required safety forms, checklists, and permits.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Must have Diploma or GED
  • $11.00/hour trial hire with raise offered upon hire in if performance is good.
  • Must have own reliable transportation
Employer: Personnel World
Address: 924 Centennial Way, Suite 400, Lansing, MI 48917
Email: Contact Us
If you are interested in applying with Personnel World, please fill out our online application and cut and paste your resume (RTF).  If you do not hear from us with 48 hours from submitting your application, please contact our office at 517-323-3500.

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