Material Handler

Triple-S Steel • Theodor, AL

18d

About The Position

The Material Handler executes safety standards and works toward daily productivity goals while meeting quality requirements. The role involves moving steel between storage and production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles using manual handling and equipment. The handler applies bundling and load-planning techniques, maintains assigned tools and equipment, and reports unsafe conditions or equipment issues. Work takes place indoors and outdoors in varied weather conditions and around moving people and equipment. The role also includes attending required company meetings and performing other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Ability to correctly 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, work without direct supervision, and work alone or in a team environment.
• Ability to develop a good 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 handle or feel objects with the hands and fingers, and to talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Meet the physical demands of the job, with reasonable accommodations available as described.

Responsibilities

• Follow Triple-S safe methods of work and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
• Move steel safely between storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles by hand or with equipment such as forklifts and overhead cranes.
• Attach slings, hooks, or other lifting devices, guide loads, and climb onto vehicles to tie down or release material being loaded.
• Apply proper bundling techniques and configure loads based on planned routes, including multiple stops, while maximizing trailer capacity without sacrificing safety.
• Maintain and safely operate assigned tools and equipment, including tape measures, calipers, hammers, pallet trucks, banding machines, micrometers, beam hooks, plate lifting clamps, forklifts, overhead cranes, and personal protective equipment.
• Identify equipment safety issues and promptly report them.
• Maintain spatial orientation and awareness of people, equipment, and ongoing work activities in the work environment.
• Attend required company meetings and perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed