Pet Food Shipping Yard Jockey
Description
Pet Food Shipping Yard Jockey
2nd and 3rd Shifts
Pay: $19.75 (includes shift differential)
The Yard Jockey is responsible for placing and removing trailers from Shipping doors following proper safety procedures, place trailers on designated lots in yard area, and complete yard trailer monitoring walkthroughs. The driver must also perform duties for Pilgrims Shipping department and Pet Food, following Pilgrim’s Shipping Supervisor instructions. The driver must also ensure truck is fueled, if low fuel presents during job performance, the driver is expected to refuel truck.
This position requires long periods of sitting, bending, stretching, grabbing, and capacity to lift up to 40 lbs. Ensure stretching and warmup exercises constantly.
Person must meet the following criteria:
- Must have experience in shipping
- High School Diploma or GED preferred, but not required
- Must be willing to work all hours scheduled
- Must not have more than 3.5 attendance points
- No disciplinary write-ups in the past 6 months
- Must have experience with Microsoft Office, Word and Excel, SAP
- Must be capable of performing simple math; add, subtract, multiply and divide
- Ability to work under minimal supervision
- Must possess the ability to understand and to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form
- Must follow safety rules and determine safe from unsafe work practices
- Must be able to follow policies, e.g., company code of business ethics and conduct, internet email usage policies, and password protection policies
- Must possess the ability to communicate and/or read and understand documents such as safety rules, work rules, HACCP regulations, policy, and/or procedure manuals
- Must be able to perform the following essential functions with or without accommodations:
- The driver is required to perform walkthrough on yard and complete Drop Trailer Monitoring Record. After this complete walkthrough every 2 hours and document.
- Before starting shift perform Truck Inspection Sheet and turn into supervisor. Use the Documents for Trailers pulled in/out and fill through shift.
- Putting trailer on Door:
- Go to yard lot and look for trailer number.
- Ensure trailer number and number indicated by supervisor matches.
- -Drive over to trailer and position truck to engage.
- -Put truck in Park position, and proceed to engage truck to trailer.
- -Proceed to drive trailer towards indicated door.
- -Align trailer with door, place truck on Park position
- -Open trailer doors.
- -Proceed to turn on trailer, put in Reverse mode and back up into assigned door.
- -Once trailer is located in door put truck in Park position and proceed to disengage.
- -Inform trailer (indicate trailer number) has been located on door (indicate door number) through radio.
- -Retrieve and proceed to continue with duties.
- Pulling trailer away from the Dock Door:
- -Drive to designated door, ensure that trailer number and door matches supervisor description.
- -Back up truck and position truck to engage.
- -Put truck in Park position and
- -Proceed to engage truck on trailer.
- -Driver must walk to outside door area and ensure trailer is not hooked up to dock door.
- -Once confirmed, proceed to turn the truck in trailer, put on Drive position and pull away from door 30 fts.
- -Place trailer on Parked position and
- -Close trailer doors and place seal.
- -Proceed to turn on trailer and look for empty spot on lot to place trailer.
- - Inform trailer (indicate trailer number) has been removed from door (indicate door number) through radio.
- At end of shift:
- -Turn in Drop Trailer Monitoring Record.
- -Turn in Documents for trailer pulled in/out.
- -Communicate information of trailers and doors to next shift Spotter Driver.
- Expected End Result:
- The Spotter Driver must ensure trailers are placed/pulled from designated doors, keep yard trailer accountability, and ensure truck is fueled for Pilgrim’s and Pet Food locations.
EOE, including disability/vets