Material Handler

Material Handler

Salary Range $19.00 - $21.00 Hourly Position Type Full Time

Description

The Material Handler performs material tasks as necessary throughout the Inventory Control Department. Areas of responsibility may include shipping, receiving, and production duties. The Material Handler moves product throughout the facility using RF Scanner Units linked to IQMS and the appropriate Material Handling Equipment.

Key accountabilities include actively promoting and driving a culture of safety, customer on-time deliveries, customer quality/returns, and reduction of financial variances. These accountabilities will be measured by inventory quantity and location accuracy, consistent cycle count performance, IQMS data integrity and accuracy, and 5S and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities include performing daily tasks safely by complying with regulatory standards, safely moving product throughout the facility using Material Handling Equipment, ensuring inventory transactions are properly performed, reviewing area specific inventory locations daily and maintaining inventory accuracy, pulling parts as indicated on pick tickets, shipping priority report, and customer service requests, verifying part identity, quantity, revision level, and correct shipping information, restocking excess parts, assuring proper inventory moves/data transactions, verifying the "ship to" address, generating packing slips, selecting appropriate method of shipment, and including any additional customer specified shipping labels, repacking/resealing cartons, labeling boxes, ensuring packing slip accuracy, loading cartons and palletizing when necessary, preparing bills of lading for the carrier, preparing packages for UPS and FedEx shipments as required, loading shipments onto the carrier's truck using Material Handling Equipment, creating new labels for parts shipping to outside vendors, expediting shipments requiring special handling, ensuring all incoming materials are received according to procedure, delivering incoming shipments, FedEx packages, paperwork, etc. to appropriate departments and/or personnel, receiving work in process parts returned from outside secondary operations, obtaining, preparing, and drying material for scheduled work orders by mixing virgin resins with regrind or colorant, moving all material via RF Scanner to facilitate appropriate IQMS transactions, reconciling backflush inventory locations at the end of each work order, working with the warehouse supervisor to ensure high-use resin restocking is adequately maintained, writing maintenance work orders for the MOTAN distribution system, troubleshooting and assisting in MOTAN maintenance as necessary, re-weighing, re-labeling, and returning excess resin, inserts, or other raw materials to the appropriate inventory locations, acting as back-up for other material handlers during planned as well as unplanned absences, cross-training as necessary, moving finished goods from production floor to appropriate warehouse location or other designated storage areas, moving all inventoried materials via RF Scanner to facilitate appropriate IQMS transactions, assisting with cycle counting as needed, assisting with loading/unloading of freight trucks as necessary.

Qualifications

Experience, skills, education, and training: High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED), and two to three years of related experience and/or training. Must be able to obtain forklift license through company sponsored training and testing.

Work environment and physical demands: The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 70 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to high in the warehouse and minimal in the office.