Material Handler

Job Title: Material Handler

Location: Milton, ON

Employment: Contract to direct

Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

Compensation: $22.00 - $24.00/hr.

Schedule: 40 hours/week - 7am - 3:30pm

About the Opportunity:

• Work from written or verbal instructions from team lead, system generated picking documents and established work routines.
• Verify that part numbers of match packing slips and that quantities are correct.
• Receive incoming parts on the dock or Truck Bay, relocate them and ensure they are allocated to proper locations, filing receiving paperwork.
• Prepare items for shipment by assembling containers, posting weights and affixing proper postage and paperwork.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Pick, pack, move, put away, wrap, and load skids of various dimensions and weights.
• Interface with warehouse office, customer service, drivers and carriers to ensure proper delivery.
• Pick and count material of various weights and sizes accurately.
• Support and assist team members with various tasks throughout the warehouse.
• Support Dock activities when necessary.
• Operate lift equipment safely to move material in and out of high bay racking and around the plant.
• Perform cycle counts and audits.
• Work with management team and coworkers to create a safety first and continuous improvement culture.
• Solve routine warehouse problems.
• Empty bins (Wood, Wire, Steel, Garbage, Cardboard).
• Solve Pending transactions.
• Additionally, the candidate should align with client's values by maintaining a safety-first mindset and valuing inclusion and diversity.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 5+ years of experience with a Counterbalance, Reach Truck and Order Picker working in a warehouse/manufacturing environment with narrow aisleway.
• 2+ years of experience in picking detail and handling materials.
• 2+ years of experience in material handling within a manufacturing environment and demonstrate a robust understanding of material handling tools.

What Sets You Apart:

• They should be adept at learning swiftly and thriving in a fast-paced setting.
• The ability to communicate effectively with both office staff and production employees, while influencing continuous improvement in the site's material handling processes, is essential.
• An important quality for the candidate is the capability to maintain thorough documentation of material handling procedures and processes.
• The ideal candidate will also be passionate about safety and continuous improvement, as well as maintaining a clean work environment.
• They will need to have a strong work ethic, but also patience and understanding that they will be working in a busy production environment.
• Must have a safety-first mindset.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced/changing environment.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, numerical and organizational skills.
• Ability to work within teams/groups and work with all levels of the organization.
• Good PC skills, including MS Office 365, Outlook and the use of RF Scanners.
• Effective time management.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada without company sponsorship.
• Will be on a forklift 10-20% of the time.
• Must be willing to spend 90 - 80% of the time picking on foot, but also drive, if necessary.

After you , you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences. AI agent role is to help speed up your hiring process by answering questions, confirming basic information, and identifying whether there's a mutual fit.

The call or chat may be recorded so that our recruiting team can review it - they make all final hiring decisions, while AI agent simply helps move you forward faster. The best part? They are available 24/7, so you can connect whenever it's convenient for you.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.