What are the responsibilities and job description for the MATERIAL HANDLER position at ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions, LLC?
Material Handler
Overview:
This position distributes materials throughout the production floor while operating an industrial forklift truck. In addition, may ship and receive finished products, unfinished parts and supplies and raw materials in the absence of shipping and receiving staff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Job functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Ability to be certified to drive forklift
- Perform assigned duties to ship finished products and receive raw materials, unfinished parts, and supplies (including weighing, assembling/palletizing goods on pallets, coordinating shipping schedules, loading and unloading trucks
- Responsible for the storage and movement of materials in storage areas and process areas and to select and prepare products for shipment to customer
- Stretch wrap pallets as required
- Stage materials in an orderly manner in designated locations throughout the plant
- Locate and stage materials for scheduled jobs at the machines or in the production staging area to ensure immediate availability for production to eliminate downtime, using F.I.F.O.
- Keep warehouse and staging areas neat and organized
- Wrap rolls in plastic to protect from elements, dust, and dirt
- Ensure cardboard on pallets to secure rolls for transporting
- Write incoming manifests
- Perform cycle counts
- Take monthly inventories
- Operate a pallet jack
- Empty dumpsters and trim racks
- Take bad pallets to shipping for recycling/return to supplier
- Gather and label/identify various scrap materials for recycling
- Sweep floors in warehouse/staging areas for raw materials
- Maintains the work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follows prescribed safety instructions
- Participate in ongoing CI and Focus improvement processes
- Perform any additional duties as requested by supervision or management within the physical demands listed below
EDUCATION:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum one-year experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience driving a forklift truck
SPECIFIC SKILLS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- This position has operations that require muscular coordination, proper lifting techniques and required lifting up to 50 pounds time to time. Hoist is available for use.
- Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, and bend
- Climbing and descending forklift truck repetitively up to 9 hours a day
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- The noise level in the working environment is usually loud (80-90 decibels) and employees are required to always wear hearing protection in the plant
- The employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to fumes and or airborne particles
“ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. ABX is committed to equal employment opportunity and equal treatment for all employees and applicants for employment based on individual merit. ABX complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities.”
