ILUS - Material Handler

Daifuku North America; Hobart (IN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company is seeking a Material Handler for their Hobart facility. This full-time position involves unloading, moving, and managing materials while ensuring compliance with quality standards. Applicants should have a High School Diploma and demonstrate strong communication and organizational skills as they work in a noisy environment with various hazards.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Career Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• 1 year of related experience preferred.
• Entry-level position.

Responsibilities

• Handle, move, load, and unload materials by hand or using equipment.
• Perform receiving tasks, including unloading items and verifying shipment condition.
• Comply with Daifuku's QMS policies and ensure process improvement.

Skills

Good communication skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Ability to build relationships

Ability to work under pressure

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

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Manufacturing Company with Career Development Opportunities!

Full Time | 1st Shift | Monday - Friday | 5:00am - 1:30pm

Comprehensive Benefits Package!

About Us

Daifuku is the nation’s leading independent, U.S.‐based provider of intelligent material handling systems. With hundreds of engineers in‐house, the company designs, manufactures, integrates, and installs the full spectrum of intralogistics solutions. We provide leading‐edge conveyor and sortation systems, voice and light‐directed order fulfillment equipment, controls and software, robotics, mezzanines, and structures.

If you want to join a team of industry leading experts and who want to create an impact on the future of material handling solutions, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Position Summary

The Material Handler will perform receiving tasks, including receiving and unloading items, verifying shipment condition, and keeping computer records.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• The primary goal is to handle, move, load and unload materials by hand or using a variety of materials handling equipment including tow motors and/or forklifts
• Performing other material handling activities such as counting, weighing, sorting, packing and unpacking.
• Loading and unloading materials onto and off trucks and loading docks.
• Operating industrial trucks, tractors, loaders, forklifts and other equipment to transport materials to and from transportation vehicles and loading docks and to store and retrieve materials.
• Connecting hoses or pipes and operate equipment to load and unload chemicals used on premises.
• Operating equipment to dump materials such as scrap metal or to remove materials from forklifts.
• Operating the floor sweeper and washer.
• May perform other activities, such as opening containers and crates, filling orders, assisting in taking inventory and weighing and checking materials.
• Employees are responsible to comply with all requirements of Daifuku’s QMS policies and procedures.
• Employees are to ensure sustainable process outputs that drive continuous improvement to provide leading industry performance and exceptional customer satisfaction.
  
  

Work Environment:

• Work areas are often noisy and lack climate control.
• Requires working around moving machinery and in some areas with minimum light.
• Routinely exposed to safety hazards such as moving machinery parts,electricity, and falls and trips.
• Physical Demands include Lifting, pulling, walking, carrying, pushing, kneeling, standing, sitting, reaching, squatting, climbing, twisting, speaking, hearing, sight, finger dexterity.
• Must observe policy and regulations regarding safety and security.
• Must practice Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures for repair and maintenance of equipment.
• Must wear Personal Protective Equipment required to complete tasks safely.
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalentpreferred
• Minimum1 yearof relatedexperience preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Good communications skills; attention to detail and organized
• Ability to work with people regardless of race, gender, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or job type.
• Ability to effectively build relationships with co-workers.
• Ability to work under pressure with time constraints.
• Ability to complete assigned training in a timely manner.
  
  

ADA Requirements:

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Visual: The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
  
  

Job Conditions:

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electric

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Automation Machinery Manufacturing

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