Packaging Associate

Company Overview

Come join a winning Team! Since 1970 Plastic Express has met the bulk trucking, bulk terminal, packaging, and warehousing needs of the plastics industry. Our strategic locations, modern systems, and dedicated employees allow us to provide custom tailored logistical solutions to fulfill the most challenging needs of our customers. Plastic Express operates from 22 full service facilities, more than 40 bulk terminals, and 52 railcar terminals offering more than 8,500 railcar spots across the country.

We are located near 9 major ports in the U.S. and rely heavily on our rail infrastructure to handle imports /exports as well as regional distribution. At many of the Plastic Express sites, we also handle some non-plastic commodities, which include paper rolls, steel, building materials and other dry bulk materials. Plastic Express owns and operates roughly 250 trucks, with approximately 250 trailers performing full bulk truck distribution business.

Plastic Express is headquartered in Houston, TX and has over 600 employees nationwide. Our goal has always been to exceed our customer's expectations, and our can do-attitude is what differentiates us from the competition. Plastic Express employees have always been our key to success and total customer satisfaction. We are always looking for dependable & talented business professionals that will help us to grow and to continue our “Can Do” tradition.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

With reporting responsibilities to the Packaging Manager, this position is directly responsible for performing essential warehouse packaging functions in a safety sensitive and production environment.

Responsibilities include:

Packaging Operation, Maintaining Inventories and Performing Light Maintenance, training new staff when requested, record keeping and communication of issues with management.

• Unloads goods and material received, enters appropriate information into system, labels and locates material.
• Separates customer orders. Pulls and stages orders. Repacks material if required to meet customer specifications. As required, makes boxes, packs, labels and locates materials.
• Ensures all products are properly labeled.
• May perform functions/transactions in designated system to receive or ship material.
• Participates in cycle counting. Enters and verifies information. Researches and makes adjustments as necessary.
• Reviews preventative maintenance check sheets for forklifts. Ensures good working order of machines.
• Conduct daily equipment inspections and that inspection paperwork is done correctly and turned in daily (i.e.; forklift, transfer system and compressor inspections)
• Follows and complies with all safety and work rules and regulations. Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• Participate in daily safety briefings and monthly safety meetings.
• Must participate in operations training and development programs.
• Must demonstrate positive and healthy attitude at all times while performing job functions.
• May be required to handle the accumulation, disposal and transportation of hazardous waste. If required to do so, must participate in prerequisite training in order to meet RCRA waste management requirements.
• Operates fork lifts, scissor lifts, reach trucks, railmovers or other heavy duty material movers when properly certified to operate.
• Never operate any equipment without documented certification to operate the equipment.
• Responsible for reviewing all receipts and shipments with actual incoming or outgoing material.
• Ensure all documentation matches product being shipped received and/ or shipped.
• Perform relocation of goods and track/ record the relocations as necessary.
• Perform meticulous records of shipping / receiving documentation.

• Monitor and conduct the day-to-day operation of the packaging operations.
• Help in maintaining all inventories related to the packaging and warehouse operation through communication with management.
• Report any related operational problems to the Packaging Manager.
• Ensure that all related…