About Sylvite
Sylvite is a multinational, privately owned, business headquartered in Burlington Ontario providing critical products and services in the agricultural and transportation sectors.
- Agriculture – Sylvite provides a full supply chain solution for crop input products such as fertilizer, seed and pesticides.
- Transportation – The transportation group at Sylvite not only coordinates part of the agricultural supply chain, but also provides logistics services to a large customer base, transporting goods throughout Canada and the United States.
Job Description:
Function:
- Responsible for supporting the operations of the branch/terminal in receiving, handling and shipping crop input products
Site Operations:
- Adhere to all health, safety and environmental regulations
- Maintain professionalism and a customer service attitude towards customers or truck drivers when delivering or picking up products at the branch
- Assist in receiving trucks, (or railcars and vessels where applicable) of fertilizer, seed, chemicals or other products as required
- Package fertilizer or other dry products (as applicable)
- Assist operators for blending and loading of outbound trucks
- Load packaged products with a forklift as requested
- Make deliveries when requested
- Perform routine clean up and maintenance of the site
- Responsible for managing warehouse inventory, including accuracy in counting/maintaining product levels and having the ability to recognize and differentiate all chemical products within warehouse
- Performing shipping and receiving duties accurately and efficiently
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Company Knowledge and Mutual Support:
- Become knowledgeable about all Sylvite divisions and the products and services they provide to customers
- Documentation of all processes and tasks for which a function is responsible
- Demonstrate a high degree of service to and collaboration with other business units
- Provide support to other department members maintaining a sense of team
- Provide positive feedback to others when possible; coach others for success
- Recommend opportunities for improvement of processes and systems as a result of the function performed or based on observations
- Must contribute to a safe, clean and comfortable work environment that complements the Occupational Health and Safety Act Regulations
- Recommend opportunities for reducing costs
Key Personal Attributes Required for the Position:
- Hard working and takes direction
- Learns quickly
- Ability to foster a teamwork environment and works will with others
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Dependable
- Detail-oriented
Education, Experience and / or Training Requirements:
- WHMIS Training and TDG Training
- Forklift certificate preferred
- Full G license
- Must be able to comfortably life 50lbs
Job Type: Seasonal
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: $20.00-$24.00 per hour
Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week
Additional pay:
- Overtime pay
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Overtime
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Bethany, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:
- Forklift: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Full G License? (required)
Work Location: In person