Why should you join our team?Steven Charles is part of the rapidly growing Dessert Holdings Family,offering potential career growth opportunities. Dessert Holdings is NorthAmerica's fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized forproviding retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovativedesserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain,and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is acollection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, TheOriginal Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company and mostrecently, Dianne's Fine Desserts. Dessert Holdings is owned by BainCapital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.
The company employs approximately 3,000 people across eight manufacturingfacilities and its headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. The manufacturingfacilities are geographically dispersed, with two facilities in Canada andone each in Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, andNorth Carol
Our location in Aurora, CO has an opening for a Forklift Operator.
Your Day-to-Day-Properly counts finished product cases from production.-Packages finished product for shipping (shrink wrapping, boxing, labeling).-Conduct cycle counts to ensure materials are available for production.-Stages finished product for loading.-Loads finished product onto truck.-Unloads raw materials from truck.-Drives box truck to shipping freezer and unloads finished product and returnsbox truck to dry warehouse for reloading process.-Receives inbound raw materials.-Moves raw materials to warehouse storage.-Responsible for quality control; no damaged product is sent out. No damagedraw material is accepted in.-Operates within standard operating procedures (SOPs).-Safely operates forklift.-Completes daily logs.-Communicates with operators from other shifts.-Cleans and maintains work area.-Turns off and locks out equipment when not in use.-Understands the management of Quality Systems and is familiar with SQF,HACCP, and GMP practices which help ensure the safety within the workplaceand the production of a safe and quality product(s).-Performs other duties as assigned by Supervisor.
What You Bring to the Team-Must have reliable transportation and be able to work a flexible schedule.-Must be willing to work overtime, including weekends if necessary.-Must be able to read and write in either English or Spanish.-Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment.-Able to stay focused in a loud working environment.-Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment requiring strict-work/safety rules 100% of the time.-Demonstrates experience with loading trailers.-Must pass Forklift training and receive certification.-Demonstrates safe forklift and electric walking pallet jack operations.
BenefitsDessert Holdings offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some aresubsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid. Health benefitsinclude a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, visionplan. Dessert Holdings sponsors a 401 (k) plan which includes companymatch. Dessert Holdings offers paid vacation, holidays, and provideswellness/sick, bereavement leave, and others income replacement plansfor eligible employees.
EEO StatementSteven Charles provides equal employment opportunities to all employees andapplicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of anytype without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, nationalorigin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexualorientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristicprotected by federal, state or local laws.
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