3rd shift - Material Handler / Hilo - Allegan - $21.00

About the role

Build a career with a company that values safety, teamwork, and growth. Perrigo is hiring motivated individuals to operate Powered Industrial Equipment across our distribution operations. These roles are essential to ensuring our products reach customers safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Receiving and organizing incoming product
• Picking and preparing customer orders
• Loading trucks for outbound shipments
• Operating Powered Industrial Equipment such as forklifts, order pickers, and dock trucks
• Performing physical tasks including repetitive bending, lifting, twisting, and moving materials

Work environment

This is a hands‑on, fast‑paced role where safety, accuracy, and teamwork are essential. This role requires working around potential allergens, including: Omeprazole, Esomeprazole, Lansoprazole, Pantoprazole, Rabeprazole, Famotidine, Loratadine, Guaifenesin, Ibuprofen, Naproxen, Nicotine, and Natural Flavorings.

Requirements

• High School diploma or G.E.D.
• Excellent attendance record and work history
• Valid driver's license OR minimum 1 year of motorized Forklift or Hilo driving experience (other driving experience may be considered in lieu of a valid driver's license)
• Ability to work 40 hours per week with availability for overtime when necessary
• Availability to train on other shifts
• Ability to complete core skills within 1 month or 30 days
• Basic computer skills: point & click, ability to navigate through computer-based training systems
• Basic math and reading/comprehension skills
• Understands & values safety, teamwork, the importance of quality, and attention to detail in work
• Ability to follow direction and Perrigo's standard operating procedures

Physical requirements

• Can stand for the length of shift, with breaks every 2 hours (approximately 85% of total shift spent standing)
• Able to see, hear and understand signs, labels, and instructions (vision corrected or uncorrected that meets valid driver's license requirements; if no valid driver's license, will be evaluated for vision and other appropriate physical requirements)
• Eye, hand, and feet coordination
• Consistently/Frequently: stand, walk, lift 60 lbs., pulling and pushing 60 lbs., stoop/bend, squat, twisting, reach, grasp, move items/boxes, feel with hands/fingers
• Rarely: climb stairs
• Consistently/Frequently: exposure to loud noises/machinery
• Consistently/Frequently: see (vision), hear, ability to read and write, ability to interpret information, basic to intermediate math skills for adding cases on pallets by layers, counting pallets and quantities on pallets, and reading and writing in English
• Simple/Complex problem-solving skills: how to stack a pallet with different sized boxes, how to load a semitrailer full of pallets that weigh varying amounts and have the load "scale" correctly
• Simple decision making: inspecting semi-trailers for safety, deciding what pallets can be stacked upon others

Benefits

• Competitive wages and off‑shift premiums
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision
• Onsite fitness center
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid holidays and vacation time