Material Handler Jobs

About The Position

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 the Company's minimum productivity levels.
• Ability to plan and organize work independently, work without direct supervision, and work alone or as part of a team.
• 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 use hands and fingers to handle or feel, and to talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including occasional standing, walking, and reaching; the posting also describes frequent lifting, carrying, exertion, walking, and climbing as part of the work.

Responsibilities

• Follow Triple-S safe work methods and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
• Move steel safely between storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles using manual handling, forklifts, overhead cranes, or other equipment.
• Attach slings, hooks, or other lifting devices, guide loads, and climb onto vehicles to secure or release material being loaded.
• Apply proper bundling techniques.
• Configure loads according to planned routes, including multiple stops.
• Maximize trailer load capacity without compromising 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 awareness and judge distances to move safely around people, equipment, and other ongoing work activities.
• Attend all required company meetings.
• Perform routine maintenance and assist with non-routine maintenance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.