Material Handler

Triple-S Steel•Surprise, AZ

19d

About The Position

Triple-S Steel is seeking a motivated Material Handler to support safe, productive, and quality-focused steel handling operations. The role involves moving steel between storage and production areas, loading docks, and vehicles using manual methods and equipment such as forklifts and overhead cranes. The Material Handler also secures and configures loads, maintains assigned tools and equipment, follows safety standards, and helps with routine and non-routine maintenance. Work takes place indoors and outdoors in varied local weather conditions.

Requirements

Ability to read work orders or follow oral instructions to determine work assignments and material or equipment needs.
Ability to safely meet or exceed company-established minimum productivity levels.
Ability to plan and organize work independently, work without direct supervision, and contribute in a team environment.
Ability to develop working knowledge of products and inventory-control techniques and procedures.
Ability to maintain interdepartmental communication related to routing, safety, and customer relations.
Basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
May be required to demonstrate strong customer relations skills.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including handling or feeling objects, communicating by speech or hearing, and the stated lifting, walking, reaching, and climbing activities.
Vision abilities including close, distance, and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Follow Triple-S safe work methods and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
Move steel safely between storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles by hand or using forklifts, overhead cranes, or other equipment.
Attach slings, hooks, and other lifting devices; guide loads; and climb onto vehicles to tie down or release loaded material.
Apply proper bundling techniques and configure loads according to planned routes, including multiple stops.
Maximize trailer load capacity without compromising safety.
Maintain and safely operate assigned tools and equipment, and promptly report equipment safety issues.
Maintain spatial awareness and judge distances to move safely around people, equipment, and other activity.
Attend required company meetings and perform other assigned duties.