Material Handler II

STERIS; Northborough (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where your contributions make a real difference! As a Material Handler II, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of healthcare products. This position involves transferring products, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with a dedicated team. With a focus on innovation and teamwork, this role offers a chance to grow in an essential industry. If you're looking for a rewarding career with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K with company match

Paid PTO and holidays

Qualifications

• 1 year of warehousing experience in an FDA, ISO, GMP environment.
• Ability to effectively read, write, and verbally communicate in English.

Responsibilities

• Transfers product between storage and processing areas.
• Maintains product documentation and contributes to safe product processing.

Skills

Warehousing experience

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Ability to lift 50lbs

Education

High School Diploma or G.E.D

Tools

Forklift

Basic computer skills

Job description

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At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

Join a company where the work you do makes a difference! We are One Team with One Goal. At STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST), it is our philosophy and our way of doing business. Through a network of over 50 facilities globally, STERIS AST has been committed to providing contract sterilization services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer, and industrial communities for over 40 years. Our sterilization services ensure the safety of those who use these products, including our families, our friends, and ourselves.

If you are looking to join a collaborative and innovative team in an essential industry, apply for our Material Handler position today! The schedule for this opening is Monday-Friday (8-hour shift) in the range of time between 7 AM-6 PM.

What You'll Do As a Material Handler I

• Transfers product from unprocessed storage area to processing area, loads, and unloads processed product, conducts pre-shipping preparation and stages product in processed area. Reviews product / process documents and customer provided special instructions to ensure accurate processing.
• Maximizes processing and minimizes downtime by monitoring equipment used for product movement and transfer; conducts and performs minor repairs, referring major malfunctions and / or unsafe conditions to management or Maintenance Department; maintains a clean orderly work area, performs Material Handling, production functions as needed; processes product according to specifications if qualified by training and certification.
• May assist in maintaining product inventory by receiving, identifying, labeling (if appropriate), and storing product within the Shipping and Receiving area in accordance with established procedure and any applicable Customer provided special instructions.
• Contributes to accuracy of processing and product accountability by maintaining product documentation; implements appropriate corrective action as needed; places, retrieves and analyzes product monitoring devices per processing specifications.
• Contributes to safe product processing by researching and responding to any alarm conditions in an appropriate manner; reports events and activities outside normal parameters to Supervisor and/or Team Leader or Operator, and may assist in resolving issues acting within operational and safety guidelines; conducts area housekeeping on a daily basis.
• Participates in Operator training to further develop skills.
• Contributes to a team effort by performing in accordance with all STERIS policies, GMP, Lean principles and other directives; supports the directives and decisions of higher-level management and performs other duties as assigned
• Responsible for the safe movement of Customer product.
• Duties include movement of product within unprocessed storage area, transfer of product to processing area, loading and unloading processed product, places and retrieves monitoring devices on product, pre-shipping preparation and staging product in processed area.
• Reviews product and process documents and instructions, i.e.,
• Customer provided special instructions or work instructions and ensures accurate processing.
• May perform the duties of Material Handler I, Warehouse Material Handler, Warehouse Assistant and / or Operator with initiation and/or completion of Operator training program.
• May train other Material Handlers in the essential functions of the job. Depending on the modality in which this role operates (i.e. Gamma), this is a highly physical role – requiring strength and endurance.
  
  

The Experience, Skills, And Abilities Needed

Required:

• High School Diploma or G.E.D
• Lift up to 50lbs and work while seated or standing, using your hands
• A year warehousing experience in an FDA, ISO, GMP environment
• Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English
  
  

Preferred:

• Utilize basic computer and math skills
• Forklift Experience
• Experience with the shift and work hours
  
  

Other:

• Be dependable and on time
• Be independent but also a team player
• Pay attention to detail
• Subject to passing Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) required background check
• Requires ability to navigate through defined computer screens.
• Normal hearing range sufficient to hear alarms, bells, horns, etc.
  
  

What STERIS Offers

This is an opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people, who take true pride in their work. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding employees for their hard work. We do this by providing competitive base salary plus bonus (as applicable), comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, paid PTO and holidays, 401K with company match.

Pay range for this opportunity is $20 - $20 per hour.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Medical Equipment Manufacturing and Hospitals and Health Care

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