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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 flexible to a wide array of duties within warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Unload trucks, trailers, containers of freight, counting products, and comparing to manifest to 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 to be efficiently stacked as store merchandise.
• Ensure correct product number, quantity, and type (lot, batch, serial number) are picked.
• Transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms with material handling equipment.
• Label, stencil, tag, mark orders, band, bundle, wrap, over-pack, and palletize as required.
• Compare quantity, labeling, and address with order to ensure out-going shipments are complete and correct.
• Assign signature for outbound shipments as necessary.
• Move product, cartons, and/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 inventory 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 and/or separate good from bad pallets when necessary.
• Clean railcars, trailers, and truck docks, bays as requested.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School education or GED preferred.
• OSHA Forklift and HAZMAT certification a plus.
• Entry level 0-1 year experience.
• Eager to start a career in the warehouse industry.
• Must be able to use proper techniques to lift up to 75 pounds.
• Ability to follow directions with emphasis on safety.
• Must be able to handle stress caused in meeting deadlines with tight scheduling requirements.
• Must be able to shift priorities easily.
• Must be able to use hands and feet simultaneously and for repetitive movements.
• Must have responsible work habits.
• Must be familiar with warehouse systems.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret SOP’s, coverage, documents, and regulations.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively establish rapport, present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers and the public.
• Skill and ability to meet people and listen.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Understanding of metric system measurements is beneficial.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Skill and ability to type.
• Skill and ability to operate a computer.
• Skill and ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Skill and ability to meet deadlines and operate office equipment.
• Skill and ability to use Microsoft office tools and company software.
• The associate is required to stand and walk for the majority of the working day.
• The physical requirements of the job are for associates to talk, hear, bend/stoop, squat, crawl, climb height, reach above shoulder height, crouch, kneel, balance, and push/pull.
• The job requires associates to lift/carry/push or pull up to 75 pounds with or without assistance.
• Associates use both hands for repetitive actions such as grasping and manipulating as well as both feet for repetitive movement operating foot controls.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Skills

• Warehouse systems familiarity
• Typing
• Computer operation
• Organization
• Prioritization
• Meeting deadlines
• Office equipment operation
• Microsoft Office tools
• Company software usage
• Material handling equipment operation (fork trucks, cherry pickers, pallet jacks)
• Reading
• Analyzing
• Interpreting
• Writing
• Effective communication
• Active listening
• Basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Weight measurement
• Volume measurement
• Distance measurement
• Metric system understanding (beneficial)
• Common sense application
• Problem-solving in standardized situations

Location

• Industrial warehouse setting

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry level
• 0-1 year experience

Education Level

• High School education or GED preferred

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.
• 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.

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.