Material Handler

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Material Handler| Raleigh| HIRING IMMEDIATELY

Incentives:

• Pay : Starting $21.47 an hour
• Benefits : comprehensive benefits package (see further details below)
• Opportunity : career growth and promotions from within, annual & skills-based wage increases

Available Shift:

• Rotating 12-hour shift 7 am-7 pm/7 pm-7 am
  
  
  Must be able to work 12-hour rotating shifts on a Dupont schedule
• Includes 7 consecutive days off every month!

Frequent tasks

• Climbing off and on forklift (height of 3 feet)
• Looking over shoulder to right and left while reversing or driving backwards with load
• Operate right handed operating controls (little pressure required but frequent grabbing of controls
• Sitting on forklift for 8 to 12 hours
• Changing battery (max. 3116 lbs.) (using hoist) may require some upper body control of swinging battery (abs and shoulders)
• Looking up to 45 degrees tilting neck back when pulling orders, and putting pallet in racks
• Going up and down stairs
• Driving over ramps and dock plates - some jarring to back

Infrequent tasks

• Stacking cases on pallet (max. 45 lbs/case, 54 cases/pallet)
• Reworking pallets (removing and restacking cases)
• Sweeping warehouse
• Cleaning outside warehouse
• Going up and down ramps with forklift

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program, and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact View email address on click.appcast.io.