Material Handler

MCC • Rochester, NY

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Multi-Color Corporation (MCC), a global leader in premium labels and sustainable packaging solutions, is hiring Material Handlers to support production. The role involves safely moving materials, managing inventory, and coordinating shipping and receiving while meeting safety, quality, and productivity standards. The posting identifies first shift and notes that available shifts vary.

Material Handlers operate forklifts, clamp trucks, and other material-handling equipment; use RF scanners to receive, transfer, and adjust materials; and support inventory accuracy and storage. They also prepare, scan, stage, and load shipments, complete shipping records, and coordinate workflow with production and other departments. The role includes following plant safety and quality rules, maintaining housekeeping, supporting preventative maintenance and continuous-improvement activities, and performing other duties as assigned.

This is a manufacturing-environment position requiring PPE, including safety shoes and safety glasses. Physical demands include frequent standing and walking, regular lifting or moving of up to 50 pounds, and frequent reaching, grasping, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, climbing, and balancing. The environment includes paper dust, repetitive motion, and medium-to-loud noise levels. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent training and experience (6–12 months).
• Forklift experience required.
• RF scan gun experience required.
• Ability to operate material-handling equipment.
• Basic math, reading, and computer skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to meet or exceed performance metrics for the role.
• Ability to perform the stated physical demands, including regularly lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of inventory control and shipping/receiving.

Responsibilities

• Safely operate forklifts, clamp trucks, and other material-handling equipment.
• Receive, move, stage, and transfer raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods; use RF scanners to process inbound and outbound materials and inventory adjustments.
• Match substrate receipts against actual quantities; maintain stored products and materials in designated racks and areas; check partial skids and complete transfer reports.
• Coordinate finished-goods inventory transfers, set over finished work when production constraints require it, and monitor shipping-supply inventory.
• Pick, pull, scan, and build shipments using pick sheets and RF scan guns; build special skids and packaging as needed.
• Load and unload inbound and outbound trucks, verify skid and carton counts, label skids accurately, complete shipping documentation, and follow customer specifications.
• Stage and load empty skids and tops for return.
• Read job tickets and layouts, execute production schedules, coordinate workflow across departments, and monitor boxes for mislabeling or product mixing.
• Work with work-in-progress and inventory releases; accurately enter job-tracking and payroll information in the system.
• Follow plant and corporate safety rules, GMPs, and regulations; promptly report safety concerns and maintain clean work areas.
• Assist with preventative maintenance, equipment adjustments, baling, waste disposal, and waste-stream separation; mark and document waste containers properly.
• Complete Hour-by-Hour boards daily and participate in SQDC, process-improvement, 6S, and Lean activities.
• Assist with shoveling and salting when required and perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with company participation
• Paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day
• Two floating holidays

What This Job Offers

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