Shipping Operator - Cumberland City, TN

Your Job

Start a new career with Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's leading manufacturers of Building Products and Consumer Products.

We are hiring for entry-level Shipping Warehousing positions at our Gypsum Plant in Cumberland City, TN.

Compensation: $21.00/hr

This position follows a rotating 8-hour shift schedule:



* Day Shift: 7:00 AM - 3:30/4:00 PM


* Night Shift: 6:00 PM - 2:00/2:30 AM

Shifts alternate every two weeks between day and night.

Our Team

Our Cumberland City facility has a rich history producing gypsum wallboard for a wide variety of customers.

Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business is consistently among the nation's top suppliers of building products to large warehouse retailers and building materials dealers.

To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com .

And, to learn more about our gypsum products, visit www.gpgypsum.com .

We offer full medical and dental benefits, life insurance, a 401K matching program, paid holidays, paid vacation days and paid floating holidays each year.

What You Will Do



* Working as a team to exceed safety, production, and quality goals.


* Safely operating forklift and/or other machinery to complete tasks such as loading/unloading OTR's, moving product within the warehouse, loading/offloading rail cars and flat racks or prepping product to move via railcar/flat rack.


* Performing quality checks on products.


* Frequently enter data into inventory software program to maintain accurate records of orders shipped.


* Keeping work area clean before, during and after shift.


* Supporting our strict adherence to a safe working environment by wearing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).


* Utilizing hand tools and equipment while periodically handling product weights up to 50 pounds.


* Conducting required pre-operating checks on forklift and equipment.


* Operating a forklift while using various attachments to move product such as forks, grabs, clamps, and push pull attachments.


* Ability to count product and read plots, load appropriately to reduce miss-shipments.


* Must be willing to work any shift; rotating shifts 8-10 hours a day in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Previous experience operating a forklift or other mobile equipment in a manufacturing, industrial, construction, farming, military, or warehouse environment.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Forklift Certification.


* Experience utilizing a forklift to load and unload trailers, trucks or rail cars.

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