Material Handler

Element Hartford is seeking a dependable and proactive Material Handler to support daily laboratory operations by ensuring materials, parts, supplies, and work-in-process are available where and when they are needed.

The primary responsibility of this position is to locate, retrieve, stage, and move material throughout the laboratory to keep testing assets stocked and operational. This role is critical to reducing equipment downtime and ensuring technicians can remain focused on testing rather than searching for or transporting material.

The Material Handler will work closely with laboratory supervisors, technicians, scheduling, and logistics personnel to maintain an efficient flow of material throughout the facility.

Salary: $20.50- $21.50/hr DOE

Material Movement & Production Support

• Locate and retrieve parts, materials, containers, tooling, and supplies throughout the facility.
• Move material between receiving, staging areas, processing areas, testing assets, storage locations, and shipping.
• Ensure testing assets are continuously stocked with the material required to perform scheduled work.
• Monitor testing areas for material shortages and proactively replenish supplies.
• Stage material at testing assets in accordance with production schedules and priorities.
• Remove completed or processed material from testing areas and move it to the appropriate next process or staging location.
• Prioritize material movement based on production requirements and testing schedules.
• Respond quickly to requests from technicians and supervisors for material movement.
• Minimize testing asset downtime caused by missing, improperly staged, or unavailable material.

Inventory & Material Control

• Verify part numbers, quantities, work orders, and material identification prior to movement.
• Maintain accurate material identification and traceability throughout the movement process.
• Ensure material is placed in designated locations and properly identified.
• Communicate material shortages, discrepancies, damaged material, or misplaced items to the appropriate supervisor.
• Assist with maintaining organized and accurate staging areas.
• Support inventory counts and material reconciliation as required.
• Prevent mixing of parts, materials, or work orders.
• Fork Truck & Material Handling Equipment
• Safely operate fork trucks/forklifts and electric pallet jacks to transport material throughout the facility.
• Perform pre-use inspections of material handling equipment.
• Follow all facility requirements and safety procedures for powered industrial trucks.
• Safely maneuver equipment around personnel, equipment, testing areas, and laboratory work spaces.
• Properly load, unload, stage, and secure material.
• Report equipment damage, defects, or unsafe conditions immediately.

Laboratory Support

• Support laboratory technicians and supervisors by keeping work areas supplied with required materials.
• Assist with maintaining organized material flow around testing assets.
• Help identify bottlenecks or recurring material availability issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing material movement time and laboratory downtime.
• Maintain clean and organized staging and storage areas.
• Perform other material handling and laboratory support activities as assigned.

• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to safely operate a fork truck/forklift.
• Ability to safely operate an electric pallet jack.
• Previous material handling, warehouse, manufacturing, laboratory, or production experience preferred.
• Ability to accurately identify part numbers, work orders, and material.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple requests.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technicians, supervisors, and other personnel.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality,…