Material Handler/Team Lead

Material Handler/Team Lead

Location: Suitland, MD

Shift: 1st Shift 6:00 - 2:30 / 2nd Shift 9:30 - 6:00

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Position Summary

The Material Handler/Team Lead is responsible for overseeing material handler operations as well as safely and efficiently moving, storing, and distributing materials within a warehouse/records storage environment, ensuring records are properly classified, stored, retrieved, and disposed of according to established guidelines. General duties include removing boxes from shelving units, placing boxes on shelves or pallets, shrink wrapping, general warehouse labor tasks, and general administrative functions associated with these tasks. Additional duties include pulling specialized references and/or refiling documents following specific protocols and general administrative functions associated with these tasks.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate professional leadership skills by exhibiting the ability to motivate, guide, and inspire others, often involving setting a positive example, delegating tasks effectively and efficiently, and fostering a collaborative environment
• Meet with the client or client point of contact to discuss the logistics associated with the tasks required, as necessary
• Monitor the work performed for accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency, and work closely with government personnel to ensure services are delivered on time and accurately
• Monitor personnel to ensure they conduct themselves according to the Standards of Conduct, personnel, and security requirements
• Serve as liaison between personnel who are performing on the contract and the client or client point of contact to resolve problems and communicate issues that arise
• Escalate matters to the COR and/or Project Manager, as appropriate
• Ensure all personnel sign in and out on a daily basis and their times are annotated correctly and verify weekly totals
• Remain onsite during performance of work, with limited exceptions
• Learn and understand work processes and procedures in order to assist with training personnel
• Ensure all labor tasks are completed within the production standards set for the task
• Locate containers or folders on shelving utilizing the location information listed on pull list or other provided reports. Containers/folders can be on floor or on shelving up to 15' high requiring the use of a pulpit ladder.
• Remove containers from shelving, check for missing and/or charged out containers, verify that the pull list is accurate, mark pull list and report discrepancies where needed; initial and deliver documentation to POC.
• Place containers or folders on streamliners in order, facing the same direction and with identifying numbers visible.
• Move records to Designated Disposal Review Area.
• Palletize Containers for Disposable Records label, stack, shrink wrap.
• Confirm space requirements, load, and transport records to assigned location, validate manifest and shelve non-disposable records that are being relocated, verify accuracy, and inform Quality when inspection is ready.
• Retrieve batched requests. Sign out batches in the appropriate logbook, recording pertinent information relative to batch being processed and record starting time.
• Locate requested file/folder on reference request; search box, confirm if request is for a single or a multi-volume file, pull file(s), add pulled file marker, if file/document is not in box/file, report that it is "Not-in-File" or report that it is "Charged-Out." Audit folders and non-fulfilled references requests upon batch completion. Sign in completed batches in the appropriate logbook, recording the time of completion. Clearly identify file/folders and stage for auditing; sign-in completed batches in the appropriate logbook, recording time of completion.
• Retrieve documents from containers, prepare documents for scanning by removing fasteners and verify order. Verify hardware settings, resolution, and convert paper to digital images, verify image clarity by visual inspection, rescan problem images and return documents to containers. Report issues to POC where needed.
• Use handheld mobile to complete basic data entry in spreadsheets, assist with box list creation, data verification and record daily project totals.
• Other general warehouse labor, records management, or administrative duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of three years' directly related experience working at a NARA Federal Record Center or similar work environment
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate, guide, inspire, and delegate
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive relationships
• Ability to apply basic mathematical concepts such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, sequencing, and knowledge of weights and measurements
• Ability to communicate and work in a team environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to maintain accuracy of less than one percent error rate for data and/or file operations
• Strong attention to detail
• Read, write, and communicate using the English language at a level sufficient to perform job functions
• Valid State Driver's License
• Ability to meet the security requirements for obtaining a badge (i.e., National Agency Checks with Inquiries)
• Ability to pass a drug screen and employment background check
• Ability to pass a fit-for-duty test
• Ability to perform in a labor-intensive environment (see physical demands below)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of supervisory experience (10+ subordinates)
• NARA records management training
• Experience operating a pallet jack, order picker, counterbalance, and/or reach and turret truck

Working Schedule:

• Shift 1 6:00 - 2:30
• Shift 2 9:30 - 6:00

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Normally subjected to inside (warehouse) environmental conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high. Adherence to OSHA guidelines is mandatory, and as such, donning of protective equipment/gear may be required.

Physical Demands (including but not limited to):

Ability to physically lift boxes which typically weigh 30-50 pounds on a regular basis. Ability to carry boxes between 30-50 pounds for distances up to a quarter of a mile within a facility. Ability to safely climb and balance on ladders to obtain boxes which can weigh 30-50 pounds, from shelving up to 15 feet high. Ability to climb caster equipped ladders and maneuver on catwalks while handling boxes of records, typically weighing 30-50 pounds, which are stored up to 15 feet above the floor, regularly. Performance of work regularly requires walking, stooping, bending, reaching, and squatting to reach boxes. Position requires working long hours on one's feet and walking several miles per day is routine. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus with corrections if necessary.

Advancia Technologies LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Advancia Technologies LLC does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.