Material Handler
Responsible for material movements within Warehouse Department including loading trucks, unloading trucks or internal movements between Production and storage locations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Unload trucks.
- Load trucks.
- Move materials to and from bin locations.
- Access computer to enter or view inventory movements.
- Perform physical counts of inventory.
- Rotation of stock as needed.
- Adhere to established procedures for identifying/marking materials.
- Some positions required to take samples of raw materials for quality purposes.
- Miscellaneous duties as assigned by supervisor.
Marginal job duties:
- Maintain clean and orderly work area.
- Change forklift batteries as required.
- Exercise safe material handling techniques.
- Notify supervisor of any mechanical issues or failures.
Education/certification/qualifications/experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent experience.
- Some warehouse experience a plus.
- Basic computer skills and math skills.
- Read, write and speak basic English language.
License or certification required:
- Forklift certification or obtain upon hire.
Physical demands:
- Stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or touch; reach above shoulders; and talk or hear up to 1/3 of the time.
- Use foot/feet to operate machine 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
- Sit 2/3 and more of the time.
- Up to 50 pounds to be lifted or force to be exerted up to 1/3 of the time, including push/pull motion.
- Transfer of boxes/bags from one pallet to another, or from trailer to pallet.
- Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less).
- Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more).
- Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
- Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point).
- Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships).
- Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Tools/equipment used: