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About the Role

Avantor is seeking a Material Handler with Inventory experience to join their team. This role involves expediting the movement of parts and materials within production areas, preparing schedules for material flow, and safely operating equipment like forklifts.

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 to check 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.
• Efficiently stack store merchandise.
• Ensure correct product number, quantity, and type are picked for orders.
• Transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms using material handling equipment.
• Label, stencil, tag, mark orders, band, bundle, wrap, over-pack, and palletize as required.
• Compare quantity, labeling, and address with order for outbound shipments.
• Assign signature for outbound shipments as necessary.
• Move product, cartons, and 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 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 Diploma or GED required.
• OSHA Forklift experience required.
• HAZMAT certification a plus.
• Basic Computer Skills.
• 0-1 year Warehouse with Inventory experience.
• Familiar with warehouse systems, WMS - SAP, RF units.
• Able to handle stress caused in meeting deadlines with tight scheduling requirements.
• Able to shift priorities easily.
• Able to use hands and feet simultaneously and for repetitive movements.
• Must have responsible work habits.
• Available to work shift and occasional weekend.
• Able to use proper techniques to lift up to 75 pounds.
• Ability to follow directions with emphasis on safety is extremely important.
• 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.
• Associate is exposed to an industrial warehouse environment.
• Associate works near moving mechanical machinery and noise level is usually loud.
• Job requires working in heights, exposure to changes in temperature, driving equipment, and maybe exposed to dust, fumes, or gases.
• Associate is required to stand and walk for the majority of the working day.
• Physical requirements include ability to talk, hear, bend/stoop, squat, crawl, climb height, reach above shoulder height, crouch, kneel, balance, and push/pull.
• 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.
• Associates use both feet for repetitive movement operating foot controls.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Skills

• Inventory experience
• OSHA Forklift experience
• HAZMAT certification
• Basic Computer Skills
• Warehouse systems
• WMS - SAP
• RF units
• Handling stress
• Shifting priorities
• Using hands and feet simultaneously
• Repetitive movements
• Responsible work habits
• Working shifts
• Working occasional weekends
• Lifting up to 75 pounds
• Following directions
• Safety emphasis
• Reading, analyzing, and interpreting SOPs, coverage, documents, and regulations
• Writing reports and business correspondence
• Establishing rapport
• Presenting information
• Responding to questions
• Meeting people
• Listening
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Understanding of American money, weight measurement, volume, and distance
• Understanding of metric system measurements
• Applying common sense
• Typing
• Operating a computer
• Organizing and prioritizing work
• Meeting deadlines
• Operating office equipment
• Using Microsoft office tools
• Using company software
• Operating forklifts
• Operating hoists
• Operating cranes
• Operating material handling equipment
• Operating pallet jacks
• Operating shrink-wrap machine
• Operating forklift battery charger
• Close vision
• Peripheral vision
• Depth perception
• Ability to adjust focus

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time
• Shift 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 is a global company with over 14,000 associates dedicated to advancing life-changing science.
• The work done at Avantor contributes to bringing new patient treatments and therapies to market.
• Avantor is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture.
• Avantor provides learning experiences to support 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.
• For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Know Your Rights poster.