Material Handler Level 1 (1st shift)

Position Summary:

Drives gasoline electric or propane powered industrial truck or manipulator equipped with lifting devices such as forklift boom scoop lift beam and swivel hook fork grapple clamps elevating platform jaws or trailer hitch to push pull lift stack tier or move products equipment or materials by performing the following duties in assigned department.

Reporting Relationships:

The Material Handler will report to various departments including but not limited to Maintenance/Warehouse/Forge/Conditioning/Saws/ Machine Shop/Quality Control/ Prod.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Moves levers and presses pedals to drive truck and control movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks lifting platform or other lifting device under over or around loaded pallets skids boxes products and transports load to designated area.
• Unloads and stacks material by raising and lowering lifting device.
• Inventories materials on work floor and supply workers with materials as needed.
• Weighs materials or products and records weight on tags labels or production schedules as required.
• Loads or unloads materials onto or off of pallets skids or lifting device. Must be able to verify the accuracy of parts leaving facility for outside processing using purchase orders

Required Skills:

• Must possess a Company certified forklift driving authorization.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to add subtract multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate ratio and percent.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before managers or other Company employees.

Experience & Education

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Shultz Steel Company is an equal opportunity employer. The companys policy and practice is to provide equal employment opportunities and to assure those opportunities without regard to age sex (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions gender race color creed national origin ancestry sexual orientation including gender identity or gender expression religion (including religious dress and religious grooming) mental or physical disability legally protected medical condition genetic information marital status military or veteran status reproductive decision making or any other status protected by applicable local state or federal anti-discrimination laws.