Operations - Warehouse Technician I

Chemelex • Union City, CA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world’s critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments – from industrial plants and data centers to people’s homes. We deliver future-ready technologies, advanced engineering capabilities and local expertise backed by global standards. Our offering includes a leading portfolio from our trusted brands: Raychem, Tracer, Nuheat and Pyrotenax.
POSITION SUMMARY
Ability to work and communicate in a team environment, sharing all team activities. Activities include putting inventory away in specific locations, pulling inventory according to picking instructions, boxing, packaging orders and shipping orders, preparing truck manifests, and the transportation of material from manufacturing to distribution. Supporting these activities you will be required to operate a variety of equipment including forklift, bobtail, and order picking equipment to heights of 20 feet, spooling, and boxing equipment. Team members will also be expected to work in a variety of areas and take initiative to flow to the area of need. All team members shall be detail oriented with the ability to continuously refer to alpha-numeric part numbers.

Requirements

• High school graduate
• Clear verbal and written communication required
• Basic arithmetic skills and recording of department metrics
• Must be a self-started and possess fair computer skills (Word, Excel and SAP a plus)
• Experience driving material handling equipment: order picker, joey, standup and sit-down forklift

Nice To Haves

• Work in SAP or equivalent work in a complex ERP system desirable

Responsibilities

• Data Entry –Required – Typically 2.5 hours mixed throughout day.
• Put away – Returning product to shelf (rack). Requires estimated combination of 80% forklift use and 20% hand stacking boxes weighing 10 – 120 pounds. Heavy boxes are not manually lifted, rather repositioned without lifting onto a pallet or shelf. Use of RF equipment.
• Picking – Removing lightweight (<40 lb.) components from storage shelves at higher frequency using an order picker at heights up to 20 feet above grade. E-Reels (boxed) pulled with forklift on pallet and transferred to packing transition point. Pneumatic hoist is available as needed. E-reel boxes are labeled with weight.
• Packing – Includes stacking e-reels (10 – 120 lb.) with pneumatic hoist and using lift tables at transition points. Also includes manually placing small items into boxes and over-packing into larger cartons.
• Shipping – Primarily labeling and processing shipment in ERP system. Light computer is required work to process a shipment using a combination of mouse clicks (59%), scans (5%), and keystrokes (36%). On average 30 – 60 orders are processed per day, per shipping operator.
• Spooling – Transferring e-reels (10-120 lb.) from pallets to pay-off equipment using pneumatic hoist. Manually traversing up to 25 cuts (~3 minutes per cut) a day. This requires standing and light cable guidance onto smaller reel. Transfer finished e-reels into boxes with pneumatic hoist.
• Staging – Finished shipment staged by forklift, hand-stack, and/or use of pneumatic hoist onto pallets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees