Material Handler

About the role

Join ALPLA, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions serving some of the world's most recognized brands. As a family-owned company with locations around the world, ALPLA offers stable careers, hands-on training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities

• Ensures material availability and accurate inventory
• Ensures delivered materials are stored in the correct location, including labels
• Ensures a correct and accurate inventory is taken, as requested
• Ensures regrind waste is kept to a minimum and that any waste is recorded
• Ensures any regrind that can be returned to the machines is returned as soon as possible
• Ensures all correct procedures are followed during a color change
• Ensures materials no longer being used are returned to the correct area
• Ensures cleanliness of regrind room, label room and mezzanine
• Assists Maintenance and Mold Change Team
• Act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA)

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience in manufacturing environment
• Experience as Material Handler preferred
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Able to operate Forklifts

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.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and very occasionally to climb or balance
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear
• Occasionally required to sit
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 lbs, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 lbs
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision

Benefits

• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Childcare and dependent care savings programs
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and educational assistance programs
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Employee recognition programs
• Hands-on training and professional development