Material Handler

Midwest Renewable Energy LLC is hiring a full-time Material Handler in Sutherland, NE. Responsibilities include loading trucks and railcars with products, maintaining inventory, and assisting with general maintenance. The position requires no prior experience, but skills in loading and customer service are preferred. The job involves physical labor and may require overtime. Pay starts at $19.00 per hour, with a regular Monday to Friday day shift.
Title: Material Handler

Department: Grains, shipping and material handling

Work Schedule:
Regularly scheduled Monday – Friday, Day shift. Must be available for overtime work and/or on a call‐in basis as required. Plant is operational 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.

Pay: Minimum pay of $19.00 per hour.

Full or Part‐Time: Full Time.

Midwest Renewable Energy (MRE) serves the changing world of ethanol production from agricultural feed stock to a distilled 200 proof final product - ethanol. MRE distributes products based on customer needs big and small and has a growing portfolio to meet the growing demands of exciting new markets. MRE provides distributors and end users with spec grade alcohol to enhance their application’s performance, stability and earn repeat customers – while delivering capacity at the right time and the right price. MRE also provides co-products to help local farmers and co-ops such as wet distillers grains and corn oil and syrup.

Material Handling:
• Load trucks with WDGS, ethanol, distiller’s syrup using meters or scales as required to assure timely delivery of products.
• Complete all paperwork and BOL’s.
• Load railcars with product as necessary.
• Housekeeping and general maintenance.
• Grade and load grain according to MRE’s corn procurement policy.
• Communicate inventory and quality control.
• Ensure grain is available to operations personnel at all times.
• Assist trucks in corn unloading as needed as well as unloading supply trucks at the plant.
• Assist other personnel as needed.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Complete any and all tasks assigned by the Plant Manager.
• Promote MRE in the community.

Mandatory Qualifications:
• No experience necessary.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in truck loading and unloading, rail tank car loading, skid loader and fork truck experience helpful.

Skills/Behaviors:
• Behave in a manner that is consistent with an experienced professional in the industry.
• Maintain outstanding customer service with all stakeholders; motivate all others around you.
• Effectively problem solve, negotiate, and resolve disputes.
• Effectively manage multiple priorities with efficiency; plan and anticipate needs.
• Act with honesty and integrity.

Education Requirements:
• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Physical and Workplace Requirements:
• Climbing several flights of stairs and ladders; work at high elevations and in extreme temperatures.
• Open and close valves.
• Work in confined spaces.
• Lift, move and/or carry up to 50#.
• Standing for extended periods of time, often 5+ hours at a time.
• Bending, twisting, and turning.

INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS:
This job description documents basic duties; it is natural that some of these may change over time as the business changes. Peripheral tasks have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities have been determined as minimal standards for the safe plant operation. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.