Hostler CDL, Technician III

Overview

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number #171339 - Topeka, Kansas, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let’s build a brighter, healthier future for all.

• Be a peer safety leader, supporting OSHA, Food Safety and environmental and GMP regulations.
• Identify power sources within Receiving Docks, Shipping Docks, Palletizer, and other power sources within each portion of the position’s systems and perform LOTO according to site EHS standards.
• Understand all quality checks and make quality decisions based on guidelines, specifications and SOPs.
• Complete all required shift documentation associated with the position.
• Perform daily tasks during a normal 40 hour work week and any mandatory overtime.
• Adhere to all site GMPs, wear and correctly utilize all site required PPE: safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toed shoes, hair nets, and beard nets (if applicable).
• Complete effective, timely changeovers, following all SOPs for cleaning and product integrity.
• Utilize SAP, Transportation, and Warehouse management systems.
• Access company email for business communications on a regular basis.
• Operate forklift and maintain required certification where applicable.
• Perform daily tasks for trailer movements in/out of shipping dock, meat dock, receiving dock and drop lots.
• Take required trailers to local scales, washing and ensuring tractors and trailers are serviced as required.
• Operate standard fork forklift and push/pull forklift to support warehouse needs.
• Perform daily and weekly MSS, AMs and PMs and sign off on tasks.
• Provide training and transfer of knowledge to new and onboarding technicians.
• Perform other duties for the warehouse that may include line to truck transactions and loading recycle onto trailers along with general cleaning requirements.
• Follow OSHA and Hill’s transportation guidelines including sealing loaded trailers after pulling from dock doors, verification of seal numbers and trailer against BOL paperwork.
• Follow government regulations and Hill’s standards for quality, traceability, and bioterrorism requirements for all materials shipped and received.
• Maintain organizing expectations throughout the facility for all operational, production and recycle materials.
• Perform Continuous Improvements (CI) in the areas of changeover management, Asset Utilization (AU), scrap reduction, rate optimizations. Participate in Productivity & Continuous Improvement projects as needed.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and resolution of issues for all equipment using troubleshooting methodologies (e.g., Fishbone, 5 Why, etc.).
• Act as point person for transportation and warehouse management issues, SKUs, Rate Loss, and commissioning to drive operational efficiencies.
• Proficient SAP user to perform transactions in SAP, OPERA, EAM, Aveva, Plant Floor Systems, Warehouse Management system, etc.
• Participate in Line AM events, gather and input data, assist in problem solving for Continuous Improvement, implement improvements, and assist in 5S/VWP tasks.
• Participate in True Zero (Recycling) and understand site recycling expectations and staging requirements.
• Report and update information systems statistics daily to support shift handoff meetings.
• Understand and comply with Hill’s policies, safety standards, GMPs and Food Safety. Identify and report Food Safety issues to OTL, Ops Shift Support V, and/or leadership.
• Operate to KPI targets, production reliability, yield attainment, scrap reduction, etc.
• Read and understand online production schedule and impact to daily operations.

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds repeatedly utilizing vertical, horizontal and…