Job Description

Job Location: Butler Corporate HQ - Butler, WI 53007
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range: $18.00 - $20.75
Job Shift: First
Job Category: General Labor💰 SIGN-ON BONUS: Earn up to $1,000 for joining our 1st Shift team!
Do you enjoy a 1st shift job that allows a variety of daily tasks, including driving a forklift?  How about working in a climate-controlled facility and earning 80 hours of Paid Time Off within your first year?  We are seeking a Baler/General Laborer for our Butler, WI facility, minutes from Milwaukee! This role involves sorting and compacting paper into bales and other duties such as material handling and receiving.
SHIFT AVAILABLE
1st Shift- 6:30am - 2:30pm Monday-Friday
HERE'S WHAT MAKES WESTERN STATES A GREAT PLACE TO WORK:
- Competitive compensation: Regular pay raises and a comprehensive benefits package including 401k with company match.
- Work-life balance: 9 paid holidays to help you recharge and enjoy time with loved ones.
- Flexibility: We have openings on all three shifts to accommodate your schedule.
- Growth potential: Join a company with a long history and a commitment to employee development.
- Stability: Family-owned and going strong for over 118 years.
WHAT DOES MY WORKDAY LOOK LIKE IN THIS ROLE?
- Identifies by category, various grades of paper and waste that have been accumulated at the baler area.
- Determines what grades have enough material to make a bale of.
- Fills the baler hopper with paper by using the cart tipper.
- Bands and ties the completed bale with wire.
- Removes and weighs the bale with a fork truck.
- Tallies the weight of the bales and transfers to a bill of lading.
- Loads the bale onto semi-truck for shipment.
- Musts keep up and have available empty waste carts for manufacturing.
- Performs 5S duties and keeps work area clean.
- Performs safety checks on trailers and lift truck.
- Helps in other departments in manufacturing.
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE IN THIS ROLE HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS
- Manual dexterity
- Strong initiative
- Team player
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos

QualificationsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Prior Warehouse or Manufacturing experience preferred
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Ability to stand for the approximate duration of scheduled shift (minus paid breaks), lift to 50 lbs, repetitive grasping, twisting, lifting above shoulder height, occasional bend, reach, crouch, or stoop.  Sensory requirements are tactile/touch with hands and digits, near and far visual acuity, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  Reasoning, mechanical aptitude, and mathematical skills for appropriate operations of equipment.