1st Shift - Material Handler

Material Handler Opportunity

Are you an experienced Material Handler looking for a full-time, temp-to-hire opportunity in a growing company? We have the job for you!

Join a global industrial equipment manufacturer of materials processing machinery, waste and recycling solutions, mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), and equipment for the electric utility industry.

This role offers competitive pay, career growth, and the chance to work with a company that prioritizes its people.

The Material Handler is a broadly defined position where the responsibilities are based on different levels of skills and competencies. A Material Handler Team Member is working in a fast-paced environment in workstations that have required cycle times. Team Members work in a culture that thrives on lean manufacturing principles both on and off the production line.

Some or all of the following duties are performed depending on skill and experience level:

• Assembles equipment components, sub-assemblies, and accessories, as required for the assigned stage of production and in coordination with a small team of co-workers. Depending on the skill development level, assembly can range from basic fittings and brackets, to hoses, actuators and pumps, sensors, chains, gears, platforms, and instrument controls.
• Fits brackets, fasteners, parts, and sub-assemblies onto structures by placing them in a specified relationship to each other. Bolts, clips, screws, and tightens parts by hand, hand tools, or portable power tools. Certain skilled tasks may require insertion of parts into small or difficult locations.
• Connects wiring to and from control panels, engines, batteries, and other components according to specifications and blueprints.
• Operates a variety of handheld and power-assisted tools, and production fixtures.

Pay: $19.43 per hour

Shift Available: 1st Shift (Monday – Friday) - 6:00am to 2:30pm (30-minute lunch)

What We're Looking For:

Knowledge and Skills

• Basic understanding of assembly processes sufficient to organize, examine, and assemble equipment containing up to 12 pieces of material (structure, fittings, brackets, bolts).
• Basic knowledge in the usage of hand tools, handheld power tools, fabricating equipment, and portable air tools.

Abilities

• Sufficient reasoning ability to understand detailed, yet repetitive, written and oral instructions, and solve straight forward problems.
• Perform arithmetic calculations, read and record detailed measurements, counts, distances, and times.
• Learn and understand safety, continuous quality, and just-in-time within reasonable period of time.

Physical Abilities

• Requires ambulatory ability to walk, stand, reach, stoop, bend, and crawl on a continuous basis.
• Requires the ability to lift, pull, push and guide medium weigh objects (20-50 pounds) on a continuous basis.
• Requires sufficient hand-arm-eye coordination to guide objects into specific placement or alignment, make intricate connections, and make precise measurements.

Benefits offered by Verstela to temporary or temp-to-hire employees:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Short Term Disability
• Term Life and AD&D
• Identity Theft Protection
• Prescription Plan
• 401(K) Retirement Savings Plan

Location: Southaven, MS 38654

• Not bus accessible

Interested? Apply today!

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Verstela is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.