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Material Handler Associate

Kem Krest
Kem Krest Salary
Elkhart, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 1/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/30/2025

Role Summary:

The Material Handler transfers raw materials throughout the facility, from the time of receiving to transportation, staging and storage.

Pay Range: $16.25 per hour

Shift Schedule:

  • Full-time, 40 hours per week
  • Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM (with occasional overtime)

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence

  • Provide inputs to improve people and processes.
  • Demonstrates competence within job tasks and duties
  • Understands & Demonstrates requirements for job duties

Equipment Operations and Maintenance

  • Understands & Demonstrates proper use and execution of designated MHE.
  • Demonstrates competence within job tasks and duties
  • Understands requirements of machine operations to not negatively impact operation

Data and Technology

  • Demonstrates competence within job tasks and duties.
  • Understands data inputs available to escalate
  • Provide inputs to technology to capture relevant data

Performance Execution

  • Understands and Demonstrates importance of achieving KPI's.
  • Aware of impact performance will have on utilization and schedule completion
  • Demonstrates requirements and provide inputs in order to always exceed expectations

EH&S Stewardship

  • Follows all safety requirements and supports prevention and identification of potential hazards.
  • Demonstrates contributions towards reduction of risk and impact operations may have on surroundings
  • Demonstrates contributions towards waste reduction

Physical and Environmental Requirements:

Weight-Handling Requirements

  • Lifting and Carrying: Ability to lift, carry, and move items weighing between 30-50 lbs. repeatedly throughout a shift.

  • Overhead Lifting: Occasionally lifting items above shoulder level.

  • Pulling and Pushing: Moving heavy objects using tools like pallet jacks, dollies, or carts.

General Physical Abilities

  • Standing and Walking: Prolonged periods of standing and walking, often on concrete floors. Shifts may last 8-12 hours.

  • Bending and Stooping: Regular bending, squatting, kneeling, or twisting to pick up or organize items.

  • Reaching and Stretching: Ability to reach above or below waist level to retrieve or store goods.

  • Climbing: Occasionally climbing ladders or stairs to access products stored at higher levels.

Endurance and Stamina

  • Performing physically demanding tasks in varying conditions (e.g., cold storage, hot warehouse spaces).

  • Repeating motions like lifting, bending, or carrying without fatigue for an entire shift.

Coordination and Dexterity

  • Good hand-eye coordination for picking, packing, or sorting items.

  • Manual dexterity for operating tools or machinery (e.g., forklifts, scanners).

Additional Requirements

  • Vision: Ability to see clearly for reading labels, identifying items, and operating machinery safely.

  • Hearing: Ability to hear alarms, instructions, or warning signals in a noisy environment.

  • Physical Health: Must meet any health standards (e.g., no restrictions that would prevent lifting or moving objects).

Education

Required
  • High School or better

Salary : $16

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