Material Handler

Overview

Executes day-to-day warehouse operations following established guidelines and procedures. Handles routine tasks such as receiving, storing, and shipping materials or products, ensuring that goods are accurately logged and managed in the system. Responsible for maintaining inventory accuracy, reporting discrepancies, and ensuring timely order fulfillment.

• Operate warehouse equipment, such as forklifts and pallet jacks, to move products efficiently and maintain a safe and organized work environment while adhering to safety protocols.
• Resolve common operational issues by applying standard solutions and following established methods.
• Communicate with team members and supervisors to coordinate tasks and ensure smooth workflow within the warehouse.
• Unload trucks, trailers, and freight containers, count products, and compare the manifest to verify 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 to storage locations for efficient stacking of store merchandise.
• Pick the correct product number, quantity, and type (lot, batch, or serial number), transport orders to shipping locations or delivery platforms using material‑handling equipment such as forklifts, cherry pickers, or pallet jacks.
• Label, stencil, tag, mark orders, band, bundle, wrap, over‑pack, and palletize as required.
• Compare quantities, labels, and addresses with the order to ensure outgoing shipments are complete and correct.
• Assign signatures for outbound shipments as necessary.
• Efficiently move products, 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.
• Keep accurate records and reports; assist in physical inventory and cycle counts; ensure proper stock rotation; key inventory adjustments in the computer.
• Repack or re‑box cases with customer instructions, repair and consolidate damaged goods, operate a shrink‑wrap machine, charge forklift battery as needed; stack and/or separate good from bad pallets when necessary; clean railcars, trailers, truck docks, and bays as requested.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• High school education or GED preferred.
• Entry‑level 1‑2 years experience; open to those eager to start a career in the warehouse industry.
• OSHA forklift and HAZMAT certification a plus.
• Warehouse/distribution experience a plus.
• Experience with MHE, such as reach truck operators and order pickers, a plus.
• Must be able to lift 50pounds using proper techniques.
• Ability to follow directions with an emphasis on safety.
• Must be able to use hands and feet simultaneously for repetitive movements.

Expected pre‑tax pay: $35,500.00 – $56,925.00 (actual pay may differ depending on relevant factors such as prior experience and geographic location).

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.