Current Starting Pay: $20.7700
About Miller Industries:
Miller Industries makes the coolest, the biggest, and the baddest towing and recovery vehicles in the world! You’ve seen our vehicles on such television shows as “Highway Thru Hell”, “Wrecked”, and “Hustle and Tow”. We’re extremely proud of the work we do and the quality of product we produce - this is why we hire only the best people. Do you have what it takes to be part of the World’s Largest Manufacturer of Towing and Recovery Equipment?
From the beginning we’ve been innovators; we’re constantly finding ways to improve our product, grow our company, and make the Miller experience better! At Miller we have your back, you’ll quickly learn that you’re part of something special. When you see one of our towing and recovery vehicles rolling down the road, you’ll feel pride for the work you’re a part of.
We are currently looking for driven individuals that share our vision. Some of the specific things that sets us apart from the rest include:
- Climate controlled work environments
- Compressed Work Week (4 days on, 4 days off)
- Most jobs are on Day Shift
- Bonus eligibility (twice a year) dependent on company and plant performance
- Regular performance evaluations
- Regular merit increases
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Professional Development programs
- Career Advancement opportunities
- Family Day Outings
- Free on-site Annual Health & Wellness Screenings
- Regular two-way communication sessions with leadership
- On-site Weld Academy – get paid while you learn a valuable trade! (Ooltewah, TN Only)
Summary:
Drives gasoline, liquefied gas, or electric powered industrial truck equipped with lifting devices such as forklift, boom, scoop, lift beam and swivel hook, fork grapple, clamps, elevating platform, or trailer hitch, to push, pull, lift, stack, tier, or move products, equipment, or materials. Employee receives, stores, and distributes material, tools, equipment, and products within establishments by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reads production schedule, customer order, work order, shipping order, or requisition to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed.
- Conveys materials and items from receiving or production areas to storage or to other designated areas.
- Sorts and places materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequence such as size, type, style, color, or product code.
- Sorts and stores perishable goods in refrigerated rooms.
- Fills requisitions, work orders, or requests for materials, tools, or other stock items and distributes items to production workers or assembly line.
- Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves or conveys orders to packing station or shipping department.
- Marks materials with identifying information.
- Opens bales, crates, and other containers.
- Records amounts of materials or items received or distributed.
- Weighs or counts items for distribution within plant to ensure conformance to company standards.
- Arranges stock parts in specified sequence for assembly by other workers.
- Uses computer to enter records.
- Compiles worksheets or tickets from customer specifications.
- Drives vehicle to transport stored items from warehouse to plant or to pick up items from several locations for shipment.
- Completes requisition forms to order supplies from other plant departments.
- Prepares parcels for mailing.
- Maintains inventory records.
- Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
- Positions forks, lifting platform, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials or hooks tow trucks to trailer hitch, and transports load to designated area.
- Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
- Inventories materials on work floor, and supply workers with materials as needed.
- Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags, labels, or production schedules.
- Loads or unloads materials onto or off pallets, skids, or lifting device.
- Lubricates truck, recharges batteries, fills fuel tank, or replaces liquefied gas tank.
Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications:
Forklift experience. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situation.
Essential Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Certain reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform applicable essential functions based on the need of the business. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is:
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Required to stand, walk, climb, sit, balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
- Frequently required to use fingers, hands, and arms to handle and reach.
- Must frequently lift and/or move 5-30lbs.
- Must rarely lift and/or move up to 75+lbs.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally required to work four 12-hour days, up to 5 days consecutively as business demands.
- Ability to wear protective gear due to fumes or airborne particles.
- Ability to frequently be exposed to flashing lights.
- Must occasionally be exposed to weather conditions; precipitation, extreme cold and extreme heat.
- Regularly required to wear hearing protection in a loud environment.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions based on business need.
Benefits: ( Beginning on 91 st day one of employment unless stated otherwise)
- Day Shift opportunities available Second shift employees receive a $1.50/hr premium (where applicable)
- 4-on 4-off schedule; off half of the weekends during the year
- Overtime available
- Double time paid for work on Sundays (regardless of whether 40 hrs. have been reached in the work week)
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Company Matched 401(k)
- AD&D, Disability & Basic Life – no cost to you
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Professional Development programs
- Career Advancement opportunities
- Regular Performance Evaluations
- Earn additional time off with perfect attendance
- 1 unpaid excused absence per year
- 40 hours Paid Vacation Time after 1 year
- 9 paid holidays each year
- Quarterly gifts and PTO for perfect attendance
- Birthday Lunches
- Annual Company Picnic Day at local Amusement Park – you and family members free!
We don’t just give lip service to our innovation in the recovery industry; in 2019 we unveiled the FIRST & ONLY Rotator in the world capable of lifting 200,000 lbs. To watch how this amazing vehicle came to be please click on the following link: The Century M100.