Material Handler

Triple-S Steel•Odessa, TX

17d

About The Position

Triple-S Steel is seeking a motivated Material Handler responsible for following safety standards, meeting daily productivity goals and quality requirements, and performing routine maintenance while assisting with non-routine maintenance. The role involves safely handling steel and other materials across storage, production, loading, and delivery areas, using manual methods and equipment. The Material Handler works indoors and outdoors in varied local weather conditions and must remain aware of moving equipment and people. Triple-S Steel describes its culture as grounded in stability, flexibility, and chemistry, and emphasizes treating customers and employees like family.

Requirements

Ability to read work orders or receive 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 of direct supervision and work alone or in a team environment.
Ability to develop a working knowledge of product and inventory-control techniques and procedures.
Ability to maintain ongoing inter-department communications related to routing, safety, and customer relations.
Basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, and to talk or hear.
Required vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including lifting, carrying, walking, climbing, reaching, squatting, and standing.
Ability to work indoors and outdoors in varied weather and to maintain awareness of moving equipment and people.

Responsibilities

Follow Triple-S safe work methods and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
Safely move steel between storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles by hand or using equipment such as forklifts and overhead cranes.
Attach slings, hooks, or other lifting devices and guide loads; climb onto vehicles to tie down or release loaded material as a continuous daily activity.
Apply proper bundling techniques.
Configure loads for planned routes, including multiple stops, and maximize trailer capacity without compromising safety.
Maintain and safely operate assigned tools and equipment, and identify and promptly report equipment safety issues.
Meet established productivity goals while maintaining quality requirements.
Perform routine maintenance and assist with non-routine maintenance.
Maintain spatial awareness and judge distances to safely move through work areas with moving objects, people, and equipment.
Attend required company meetings and perform other assigned duties.
Read work orders or follow oral instructions to determine assignments and material or equipment needs.
Plan and organize work independently or as part of a team, including without direct supervision.
Maintain product and inventory-control knowledge and communicate across departments about routing, safety, and customer relations.
Demonstrate basic arithmetic skills and, when required, customer relations skills.