Material Handler

Shift: Monday - Thursday, 6:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Essential Duties

• Inbound: Unload trucks, trailers, containers of freight, counting products, compare to manifest to check all shipments for damage, infestation, or production code dates. Report shortages, damages, and mis-shipments on appropriate forms. Sign for inbound shipments when necessary. Move inbound shipments safely to storage locations.
• Order Picking: Ensure correct product number, quantity and type (lot, batch, serial number) are picked. Transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms with material handling equipment such as fork trucks, cherry pickers, or pallet jacks. Label, stencil, tag, mark orders, band, bundle, wrap, over-pack, and palletize as required.
• Equipment: Maintain equipment in a neat, clean and orderly fashion. Operate equipment safely and efficiently. Comply with company standards and OSHA requirements.
• Inventory: Keep accurate records and reports. Assist in physical inventories and cycle counts. Ensure proper stock rotation. May key inventory adjustments in computer.
• Other Duties: Repair and consolidate damaged goods as required. Operate shrink-wrap machine. Charge forklift battery as needed; stack and or separate good from bad pallets when necessary; clean trailers, and truck docks, bays as requested. Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret SOPs, coverage, documents, and regulations.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively establish rapport, present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers and the public.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Understanding of metric system measurements is beneficial.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Skill and ability to type and operate a computer.
• Skill and ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Skill and ability to meet deadlines and operate office equipment.
• Skill and ability to use Microsoft office tools and company software.

Working Conditions & Physical Effort

Exposed to an industrial warehouse environment, near moving mechanical machinery with loud noise. Requires working in heights, exposure to changes in temperature, driving equipment, and possible exposure to dust, fumes, or gases. Required to stand and walk for the majority of the working day. Physical requirements include talking, hearing, bending/stooping, squatting, crawling, climbing height, reaching above shoulder height, crouching, kneeling, balancing, and pushing/pulling. Requires lifting/carrying/pushing or pulling up to 75 pounds with or without assistance. Uses both hands for repetitive actions such as grasping and manipulating as well as both feet for repetitive movement operating foot controls. Specific vision abilities include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.