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Material Handler Operator

Kem Krest
Kem Krest Salary
Elkhart, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 3/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2025

Role Summary:

The Material Handler works to complete work orders listed on the weekly blending schedule, along with off-loading tankers at set scheduled times throughout the week. In addition, this person coordinates with the Production & Blending Supervisor and other Associates to ensure that they stay ahead of the weekly production schedule.

Pay Range: $17 - $18 per hour

Shift Schedule:

  • Full-time, 40 hours per week
  • Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (with occasional overtime)

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence

  • Provide inputs to improve people and processes

  • Understands & Demonstrates requirements for job duties

  • Identifies risks and gaps affecting negative performance

Equipment Operations and Maintenance

  • Understands & demonstrates proper use and execution of designated MHEF

  • Demonstrates competence within job tasks and duties

  • Understands requirements of machine operations to not negatively impact operation

Data and Technology Controls

  • 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 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 : $17 - $18

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