THIS IS A TEMPORARY/SEASONAL POSITION (Job will end mid-late December)
Chilly Warehouse
Weekly Pay
Day Shift; Full Time 40+ hours; Monday - Friday 7:30am - 4:30pm (Hours fluctuate with truck scheduling)
Overtime Opportunities Likely During Seasonal High Volume
Elmer Chocolate is the oldest family-owned chocolate company in America. Our factory in Ponchatoula is the 2nd-largest manufacturer of Valentine boxed chocolate in North America.
- Cigna medical plans for the entire family
- Monthly employee appreciation events
- Free chocolate
- T-Shirt Uniforms
- Generally 60% of Temporary Associates find permanent jobs at Elmer's!
Basic Responsibilities:
- Unloading of raw materials and finished products
- Fill orders for customers
- Quality control of received and produced items
- Operate forklift
- Operate manual and electric pallet jack
- Load and unload materials onto or off pallets, skids, or lifting device
- Complete receiving/order documentation including recording, weighing, labeling
- Keeps shipping/receiving area clean
Required Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years old
- Pass a drug screen
- Must be able to qualify for & pass forklift certification course
- Must be able to pass a general math assessment related to calculating inventory
- High School education or GED
- Reliable transportation
- Dependable attendance and ability to work overtime
- Ability to follow & read instructions
- Ability to work overtime and weekends as needed
- Reading, interpreting signs and short correspondence, shipping documents, and memos
- Basic math skills, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to stand & walk for 12 hours+.
- Ability to sit, stoop, bend, kneel, reach, crouch, crawl, use force, carry, & push/pull
- Ability to lift < 50 lbs. occasionally
- Ability to apply manual dexterity and specified visual acuity
- Ability to hear and speak
- Some areas require PPE & may cause occasional exposure to higher temperatures
Elmer Chocolate is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to any protected class status.
