Material Handler 3:30 p.m - 11:30 p.m.

Data-Mail, Inc. • Newington, CT

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Material Handler is responsible for moving materials throughout the plant. The role checks schedules and recaps for accuracy, completes production documentation, delivers and verifies materials at machines, and ensures materials are advanced from the warehouse or staging area in a timely manner. It also returns leftover materials and labels to their appropriate locations, maintains production standards and a neat work area, reports production, quality, or safety issues, assists with training new material handlers, and follows company rules and procedures.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• License to operate an electric jack and Raymond forklift.
• Ability to operate manually and electrically powered hand trucks.
• Ability to move rolls weighing more than 1,000 pounds, including pushing, pulling, and sliding them into position.
• Ability to follow procedures and documents.

Responsibilities

• Check the schedule and retrieve the recap from the master recap stand; review it thoroughly for accuracy and immediately report errors or discrepancies to the department supervisor.
• Complete the correct documentation, such as machine sheets, shortage reports, and meters.
• Pull materials to machines, verify that operators have the correct materials, and call for the mechanic. For a new bindery job, place a copy of the master recap with the roll at the machine.
• In bindery, periodically check the small job rack for rolls of small jobs or samples to be run; sign them out on the log and advise the supervisor that samples are available for setup.
• Move the correct materials from the warehouse or staging area to machines in a timely manner so operators do not run out; advance order material through the kanban system.
• Return leftover materials from machines to the appropriate warehouse location with a recap; remove binding straps, open boxes when necessary, dispose of packaging properly, and consolidate skids containing the same material.
• Maintain production standards.
• Coordinate label requirements to ensure batches and tiers of sort are run in the correct mail-date order.
• Return remaining labels from jobs removed from machines before completion to label staging, and return remaining materials to the warehouse, with a recap accompanying both.
• Immediately report production, quality, or safety problems to the department supervisor.
• Keep the work area neat and clean.
• Assist in training new material handlers.
• Remove scrap materials from the immediate area and dispose of them properly.
• Comply with company rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Maintain confidentiality of company-sensitive data.
• Support a quality philosophy and recommend methods and procedures to reduce costs or improve departmental operating efficiency.
• Keep the manager or supervisor informed of activities and situations that could affect corporate or departmental goals and objectives.
• Perform other related duties as required to achieve department and company goals and objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED