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About the Role
The Material Handler expedites the movement of parts and materials between production areas, managing raw materials and parts. This role involves preparing and coordinating schedules for material pulling and delivery to control goods flow and regulate production floor space. The Material Handler safely operates equipment like forklifts, hoists, and cranes, adhering to all safety rules and practices.
Responsibilities
- Keep accurate inventory records and reports
- Assist in physical inventories and cycle counts
- Ensure proper stock rotation
- Key inventory adjustments in the computer
- Unload trucks, trailers, and containers of freight
- Count products and compare to manifest
- Check all shipments for damage, infestation, or production code dates
- Report shortages, damages, and mis-shipments on appropriate forms
- Sign for inbound shipments when necessary
- Move inbound shipments safely to storage locations
- Stack merchandise efficiently
- Ensure correct product picking (number, quantity, type)
- Transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms using material handling equipment (fork trucks, cherry pickers, pallet jacks)
- Label, stencil, tag, mark orders
- Band, bundle, wrap, over-pack, and palletize orders
- Compare quantity, labeling, and address with order for outbound shipments
- Assign signature for outbound shipments
- Efficiently move product, cartons, or pallets into trailers, rail cars, or containers
- Maintain equipment in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion
- Operate equipment safely and efficiently
- Comply with company standards and OSHA requirements
- Repack or re-box cases per customer instructions
- Repair and consolidate damaged goods
- Operate shrink-wrap machine
- Charge forklift battery as needed
- Stack and/or separate good from bad pallets
- Clean railcars, trailers, truck docks, and bays
- Perform other assigned duties
Requirements
- OSHA Forklift experience
- Familiarity with warehouse systems (WMS - SAP, RF units)
- Ability to handle stress from deadlines and tight scheduling
- Ability to shift priorities easily
- Ability to use hands and feet simultaneously for repetitive movements
- Responsible work habits
- Ability to lift up to 75 pounds using proper techniques
- Ability to follow directions with emphasis on safety
- Exposure to an industrial warehouse environment
- Work near moving mechanical machinery with loud noise levels
- Ability to work at heights
- Exposure to changes in temperature
- Ability to drive equipment
- Potential exposure to dust, fumes, or gases
- Ability to stand and walk for the majority of the working day
- Ability to talk, hear, bend/stoop, squat, crawl, climb height, reach above shoulder height, crouch, kneel, balance, and push/pull
- Ability to use both hands for repetitive grasping and manipulating actions
- Ability to use both feet for repetitive movement operating foot controls
- Specific vision abilities: close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
Skills
- Basic Computer Skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret SOPs, documents, and regulations
- Ability to write reports and business correspondence
- Ability to establish rapport, present information, and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the public
- Ability to meet people and listen
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers
- Ability to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s
- Ability to perform mathematical operations using units of American money, weight measurement, volume, and distance
- Understanding of metric system measurements (beneficial)
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
- Typing skills
- Ability to operate a computer
- Ability to organize and prioritize work
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to operate office equipment
- Ability to use Microsoft Office tools
- Ability to use company software
- HAZMAT certification (a plus)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Shift work
- Occasional weekend work
Experience Level
- 0-1 year Warehouse with Inventory experience
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $35,500.00 - $56,925.00
About the Company
- Avantor, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.
- Its portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development, and production activities in the industries served.
- Avantor has a global infrastructure strategically located to support customer needs, serving over 225,000 customer locations and providing extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries.
- The company's mission is to set science in motion to create a better world, advancing life-changing science and contributing to new patient treatments and therapies.
- Avantor fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture with learning experiences to support career growth and success for its 14,000+ associates.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
- We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at recruiting@avantorsciences.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
- Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
- For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Know Your Rights poster.