General Warehouse - Receiving

About the role

MPS, a division of Macmillan Publishers, a leading US publisher of Trade and Academic titles, has a job opening for a Material Handler for our Receiving Department in our Gordonsville, Virginia facility. MPS provides back office support, warehousing, and, fulfillment for Macmillan US, and is their primary distribution facility for North America.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• WMS – Looks up locations and retrieves order status information.
• Removes shrink-wrap from pallets in preparation for them to be located in the racks.
• Sorts books and breaks down assortments of books.
• Loads the induction line.
• Operates the Cubi-Scan to dimension size the book and carton (length, width, height, weight).

Miscellaneous Duties Of All General Warehouse Employees

• Maintains a clean, neat and orderly work area.
• Conducts operations in a manner which promotes safety.
• Enforces established safety, health, and housekeeping policies and procedures in order to minimize injuries, loss of production time, and damage.
• Conforms to all company policies and procedures (Employee Handbook)
• Complies with all environmental, health, and safety requirements.

Requirements

Computer Skills

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 bend; stoop; walk; stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

$1,000 Retention Bonus (after 1 year), Paid Time Off, 11 Paid Holidays, Eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan, Competitive Benefits

Hourly Rate: $17.2800 to $17.9800