Material Handler

Overview

Use powered industrial trucks to keep all production areas supplied with needed materials and places finished product in appropriate staging area.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Understand and perform all tasks and responsibilities according to the specific Job Safety Practices (JSP) established for this job.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment.
• Adhere to all Prysmian health, safety, and environmental policies and regulations, including hazardous waste handling if designated and trained to do so.
• Maintain work instructions corresponding with job.
• Maintain transfer logs, HFA transactions, and any other applicable paperwork.
• Initiate actions to prevent the occurrence of nonconformities, identify and record problems relating to product quality, processes, and quality systems, as well as control further processing or delivery of nonconforming product.
• Use HFA/MRP system to locate and transfer any needed materials.

Production Material Handler Responsibilities

• Move finished products from production areas to appropriate staging areas.
• Dump all trash and keep area in a neat and orderly manner.
• Remove and process all scrap materials from assigned areas.

Shipping Material Handler Responsibilities

• Unload incoming supplier trucks, verify quantity received versus packing slip, and place product in appropriate storage areas.
• Unload drum trailers, stack drums on pallets, wrap loads to stabilize, and move to storage locations.
• Move finished products from staging area to Finished Goods storage locations.
• Pick customer orders from storage racks or locations.
• Create stackable pallets by putting like material on each skid.
• Transfer product from one pallet, container, location to another pallet, container or location as necessary for storage or shipment.
• Wrap or band the pallets as needed to protect and stabilize product and load customer freight onto trailers.

Additional Waste Management Duties & Responsibilities for Affected Material Handlers

• Transport waste and material from the facility to the chemical building.
• Ensure proper labeling, markings, and dates.
• Log any material brought into the chemical building in the raw material and waste binder.
• Place material in the proper destination in the chemical building and ensure there is adequate aisle space between rows.
• Safely receive and transfer hazardous materials.
• Train includes annual RCRA training and DOT training at least every 3 years.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• One to three months related experience and/or training preferred.
• Powered Industrial Truck license/certification required.