Material Handler

About the Role

This is a 12-month contract position for a Material Handler in Madison, GA. The role involves mainly manual labor, including unloading trucks and stacking pallets (typically under 25 lbs, with some items weighing less than 5 lbs). Attention to detail is essential for verifying labels on boxes and matching them to pallets. Scanning experience and stand-up forklift experience are required.

You will use a variety of equipment such as forklifts, conveyors, cranes, handcarts, and power trucks to move materials, parts, assemblies, and finished products within a plant, office, or warehouse. The role may also involve maintaining records and developing skills in basic tasks, techniques, and procedures within one skill area or process.

Responsibilities

• Unload trucks and stack pallets (items typically under 25 lbs).
• Verify labels on boxes and match them to pallets with attention to detail.
• Operate scanning equipment and stand-up forklifts.
• Use various material handling equipment (e.g., forklifts, conveyors, cranes, handcarts, power trucks).
• Move materials, parts, assemblies, and finished products within a plant, office, or warehouse.
• Maintain records as required.
• Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) and quality guidelines.
• Work under general to limited supervision.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Zero (0) to one (1) year of warehouse experience or related experience and/or training.
• Basic skills training in an analytical/scientific method or operational process area (e.g., material handling, logistics, manufacturing production).
• Ability to obtain and/or maintain appropriate licenses, training, or certifications as needed.

Qualifications

• Effective communication skills to ensure understanding by co-workers and supervisors.
• Ability to read, write, interpret, and comprehend documents in English and perform basic math calculations.
• Ability to operate in a metrics-driven environment.
• General computer skills.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Regularly required to walk, stand, stoop, kneel, balance, climb, lift, crouch, reach, pull, push, grasp, talk, hear, and twist.
• Frequent use of hands to finger, handle, feel, pick, or type, which may include repetitive motion of the wrists, hands, or fingers.
• Ability to lift and/or move over 50 lbs.
• Exposure to work near moving mechanical parts, extreme weather conditions, and vibration.
• Occasional exposure to high, precarious places and fumes/airborne particles.
• Work environment can be hot in the summer (no AC) and cold in the winter (limited heating).
• Noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.

Pay

$16–$20 per hour.

Schedule

• 40 hours per week.
• Option 1: Sunday–Wednesday, 10 hours/day (5:00 AM to 3:30 PM).
• Option 2: Thursday–Saturday, 12 hours/day (5:00 AM to 5:30 PM).