Manufacturing - Warehouse Packer

Order Picker
The order picker safely moves, loads, and unloads building products using forklifts and other industrial equipment while ensuring orders are accurate, properly secured, and ready for timely delivery. This role reads work orders or follows verbal instructions to determine material requirements, maintains clean and organized storage areas, and performs routine maintenance on power industrial trucks in a busy lumber yard environment.
Read work orders and follow verbal instructions to determine work assignments, materials, and equipment needed.
Operate a motorized forklift and other industrial trucks to move, load, and unload packages, products, and building materials to designated areas.
Manually transport building products to ensure timely and complete delivery of customer orders.
Install protective devices, bracing, or strapping to prevent shifting or damage to items during transport.
Load and unload trucks and railcars in the wall department, including working outdoors as needed.
Pick and stage orders accurately for shipment or delivery.
Maintain storage areas in a clean, organized, and safe condition.
Perform routine maintenance on power industrial trucks, including cleaning, recharging batteries, and fueling.
Provide courteous customer service when interacting face to face with customers, as needed.
Work safely in a non-climate-controlled, potentially dusty lumber yard environment while consistently handling heavy materials.
Minimum 6+ months of experience in a warehouse, production, or construction environment.
Minimum 6+ months of forklift experience.
Experience with loading and unloading trucks.
Ability to operate forklifts and other material handling equipment safely.
Experience with palletizing and preparing materials for shipment.
Basic shipping and receiving experience.
6+ months of experience working with lumber or other construction materials and tools.

• 6+ months of face-to-face customer service experience.
• Ability to read and understand delivery tickets.
• Experience as an order picker/packer or in warehouse pick/pack operations.
• Experience in warehouse production or similar industrial settings.
• You join a hands-on, team-oriented environment where your contributions directly support efficient operations and customer satisfaction. The schedule offers long, consistent shifts during the week with additional hours available on Fridays and potentially Saturdays for those seeking extra income and overtime opportunities. You gain valuable experience in material handling, forklift operation, and lumber yard operations, building skills that are highly transferable across warehouse, construction, and production industries. This position is based in a lumber yard and warehouse environment that is non-climate controlled and can be dusty. You will primarily work in the wall department, spending significant time outdoors loading and unloading trucks and railcars and picking orders. The role is physically demanding, with frequent lifting of up to 75 lbs and occasional lifting up to 150 lbs, as well as regular operation of forklifts and other industrial trucks. The standard schedule is Monday through Thursday from 5:30 AM to 4:00 PM, with additional hours on Fridays and potentially Saturdays depending on workload. The dress code requires jeans, steel-toe footwear, and layered clothing as needed for varying weather conditions.

Job Type & Location This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Lincoln, NE.
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on May 8, 2026.

Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.