Material Handler

Description

Responsible for ensuring that materials are supplied where they are needed and that production flows smoothly.

• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of manufacturing processes and materials.
• Use critical thinking to ensure the continuous flow of production.
• Ensure proper containers are provided for production for the appropriate job.
• Move and stage materials for production.
• Follow daily schedules.
• Operate lift trucks, forklifts, flux, overhead cranes, or hand trucks to convey or hoist materials to proper departments or areas.
• Pick orders from stock or from staging area.
• Maintain departmental housekeeping standards.
• Pick material from inventory and deliver to necessary equipment.
• Ensure material, part, and quantity accuracy in all transactions.
• Maintain assembly areas throughout the warehouse; ensure neat and orderly storage of material.
• Pull materials from storage and deliver to production as needed. Communicate and collaborate with the reporting supervisor and operators to ensure that production continues to flow smoothly.
• Assist in the maintenance of inventory accuracy and assembly areas throughout the warehouse, ensuring neat and orderly storage, picking, and transferring of material.
• Follow and comply with all company safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

High School Diploma or equivalent, one to three years’ relevant experience, or equivalent combination of both.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to critically think and solve problems.
• Ability to adapt to the needs of the organization and employees.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The phrases “occasionally,” “regularly,” and “frequently” correspond to the following definitions: “Occasionally” means up to 1/3 of working time, “regularly” means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and “frequently” means 2/3 and more working time.

• Frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally lift or move up to 70 pounds.
• Repetitive fine motor movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists performing tasks.
• Frequently working on foot, using tools, and performing repetitive actions that entail bending and stooping.

The employee works in a factory environment and is occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is loud.

Wisconsin Steel & Tube provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.