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Position Summary
Fastens plastic, metal bands or stretch wrap around stacks, bundles, or palletized articles prior to
storage or shipment by performing the following duties.
This position also delivers on our core focus of:
• The answer is yes. Be a solutions provider
While building on our core values of:
• Help 1st
• Take ownership
• Do the right thing
• Expect excellence
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
✓ Setup, operation and quality of the bander
✓ Counts number of articles to be banded to verify number specified on work order
✓ Examines work order to determine work instructions
✓ Unwinds plastic or metal banding material from reel, wraps band around stack or bundle, inserts loose
end of banding material into strapping tool to secure articles during storage or shipment.
✓ Counts and records number of banded bundles
✓ Operates hydraulic jack lift or truck to move articles before and after bundling
✓ Cuts lumber or other reinforcing material and incudes reinforcing material in bundle or ails lumber
together to protect articles during storage or shipment
✓ Bands articles to pallet to secure articles for moving
✓ Inspects completed work
✓ Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
✓ Regular and reliable attendance
✓ Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by management.
Cultural Competencies
Help First means being a reliable team member serving everyone, internally and externally. At Akers, we believe
and exhibit a “roll up your sleeves and get the job done” mentality and behavior. No job is unimportant, and no
person is above any job. We demonstrate this through:
Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
✓ Has energy and enthusiasm
Take Ownership means that you think and act like an owner. No matter the role, everyone is empowered to be a
good steward of the organization. Each person has the autonomy to make recommendations for improvement to
their work and the organization. We demonstrate this through:
✓ Patient
✓ Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations
✓ Solution vs. blame oriented
✓ Mixture of firmness and flexibility
✓ Has energy and enthusiasm
✓ Holds self and others accountable
Do the Right Thing means that you do the right thing for the customer, regardless of its popularity. Doing the
right thing at the right time requires a person to have and exhibit high moral standards.
✓ Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
✓ Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
✓ Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not
Expect Excellence means that you think and act like an owner. No matter the role, everyone is empowered to
be a good steward of the organization. We demonstrate this through:
✓ Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
✓ Has sense of urgency
✓ Follows up to ensure quality task completion
Work Environment / Physical Demands
✓ Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People
needs
✓ Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel,
and crouch.
✓ Ability to regularly lift up to 20 lbs. frequently20-35 lbs. occasionally, more than 35 lbs. rarely, over 50 lbs.
requires team or mechanical assistance
✓ Ability to sit for extended periods of time at desk in traditional office environment
Systems Usage
✓ ERP system Kiwi
✓ ADP Workforce Now
Qualifications
✓ GED or High school diploma, preferred
✓ 18 years of age or older
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