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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 and sign for inbound shipments when necessary.
• Move inbound shipments safely to storage locations.
• 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 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, complying 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

• Must be able to use proper techniques to lift up to 75 pounds.
• Ability to follow directions with emphasis on safety is extremely important.
• 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.
• 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 in the work environment is usually loud.
• Requires working in heights, exposure to changes in temperature, driving equipment, and maybe exposed to dust, fumes, or gases.
• Required to stand and walk for the majority of the working day.
• Requires associates to talk, hear, bend/stoop, squat, crawl, climb height, reach above shoulder height, crouch, kneel, balance, and push/pull.
• 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 foots controls.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Skills

• Forklift operation
• HAZMAT handling
• Computer operation
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Company software usage
• Typing
• Organizing
• Prioritizing work
• Meeting deadlines
• Operating office equipment
• Warehouse systems familiarity

Location

• 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 is a global company with over 14,000 associates dedicated to advancing life-changing science.
• The work done at Avantor contributes to new patient treatments and therapies, enabling medical devices, and creating a better world.
• Avantor is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that supports 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.