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About the Role

Warehouse material handlers are responsible for accurate receiving, storing, picking, and shipping of products to meet Avantor standards of productivity, quality, safety, and customer service. This position is based in an industrial warehouse setting and is a position that is flexible to a wide array of duties within warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Perform various warehouse tasks.
• Unload trucks, trailers, and containers of freight; count products; 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 for efficient stacking.
• Ensure correct product number, quantity, and type (lot, batch, serial number) of product are picked.
• Transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms using material handling equipment (e.g., fork trucks, cherry pickers, pallet jacks).
• Label, stencil, tag, mark orders, band, bundle, wrap, over-pack, and palletize as required.
• Compare quantity, labeling, and address with order to ensure outgoing shipments are complete and correct.
• Assign signature for outbound shipments as necessary.
• 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.
• Keep accurate records and reports.
• Assist in physical inventories and cycle counts.
• Ensure proper stock rotation.
• Key inventory adjustments in the computer.
• Repack or re-box cases per customer instructions.
• Repair and consolidate damaged goods as required.
• Operate shrink-wrap machine.
• Charge forklift battery as needed; stack or separate good from bad pallets.
• Clean railcars, trailers, and truck docks/bays as requested.
• Perform other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Ability to lift up to 75 pounds using proper techniques.
• Ability to follow directions with emphasis on safety.
• Ability to handle stress from meeting deadlines with tight scheduling requirements.
• Ability to shift priorities easily.
• Ability to use hands and feet simultaneously for repetitive movements.
• Responsible work habits.
• Familiarity with warehouse systems.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret SOPs, coverage 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 add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Ability to perform operations using units of American money, weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving concrete variables in standardized situations.
• 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 lift/carry/push or pull up to 75 pounds with or without assistance.
• 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

• Ability to meet people and listen.
• Typing skills.
• Computer operation skills.
• Organizational and prioritization skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and operate office equipment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and company software.
• Understanding of metric system measurements.

Experience Level

• Entry level
• 0-1 year experience

Education Level

• High School education or GED preferred
• OSHA Forklift certification a plus
• HAZMAT certification a plus

Salary/Compensations

• $35,500.00 - $56,925.00

About the Company

• Avantor 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.
• Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.
• One of our greatest strengths comes from having a global infrastructure that is strategically located to support the needs of our customers.
• Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 225,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries.
• We set science in motion to create a better world.
• Avantor is a Fortune 500 company.
• Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.
• The work we do changes people's lives for the better.
• We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success.

Equal Opportunity

• Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• 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.