Materials Handler (Forklift Experience)

U-Haul International, Inc.; Walpole (MA); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join U-Haul as a Material Handler and support their production efficiency while working in a dynamic environment. You'll operate forklifts to handle materials, ensuring safety and productivity. U-Haul offers excellent benefits including health insurance, paid time off, and career advancement opportunities.

Benefits

Health insurance & Prescription plans if eligible

Paid holidays, vacation, and sick days if eligible

Life insurance

401k and Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Discounts on various products and services

Subsidized gym/fitness membership if eligible

Critical Illness/Group Accident Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with sit-down forklifts.
• Ability to communicate well in English.
• Proficiency with computers.

Responsibilities

• Operate sit-down forklift to move materials.
• Handle and move materials safely in the production line.
• Maintain workstations with necessary production materials.

Skills

Forklift Operation

Communication

Proficiency with Computers

Job description

Are you a team player who’s comfortable on a forklift? If so, apply for a role with U-Haul as a Material Handler! In this position you will help to support the production line, and moving materials to ensure maximum efficiency. In exchange, take advantage of U-Haul’s excellent benefits.

U-Haul offers Material Handlers:

• Opportunities for advancement
• Health insurance &Prescription plansif eligible
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick daysif eligible
• Life insurance
• MetLaw Legal program
• MetLife auto and home insurance
• Discounts on Apple products, Dell computers, cell phone plans, hotels, and more
• 401k and Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• 24-hour physician available for kids
• Subsidized gym/fitness membership if eligible
• Business and travel insurance
• YouMatter EAP
• LifeLock Identity Theft Protection
• Critical Illness/Group Accident Insurance

Material Handler Primary Responsibilities:

• Operate a sit-down forklift to handle and move materials
• Safely and efficiently handle materials received, stored, and shipped through the assembly plant
• Keep workstations loaded with production materials
• Operate material handling equipment (e.g. hand truck, pallet jack etc.).
• Understand, support, and implement the company Housekeeping, Safety and Quality policies and procedures into daily work habits
• Other duties as assigned

Material Handler Minimum Qualifications:

• Sit-down forklift experience
• Prior forklift certification or ability to pass company forklift test
• Able to communicate well in English
• Proficiency with computers
• Able to pass print reading, measurement and fraction/decimal conversion tests

Work Environment:
The work involves moderate risks or discomforts which require special safety precautions, e.g. working around moving parts, machines, fumes, or irritant chemicals. May be required to use protective clothing, or gear such as masks, goggles, gloves, or shields.

Physical Demands:
The work requires some physical exertion such as long periods both indoors and outdoors of remaining stationary, traversing spaces, repositioning to reach and use tools, and moving a minimum of 50 lbs assisted or unassisted.

U-Haul is an equal opportunity employer. All applications for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, provincial, state, or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.

1 Production Rd
Walpole, Massachusetts 02081 Full-Time R222245

About Us

Since 1945, U-Haul has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households. Like many other successful ventures, the concept for U-Haul was generated out of need. After World War II, there existed the widespread need for do-it-yourself moving equipment that would be available on a one-way, nationwide basis.

U-Haul co-founders L.S. "Sam" Shoen and his wife, Anna Mary Carty Shoen, recognized that need and acted upon it. Their visionary approach spread the cost of ownership among many users, facilitating the mobility of the populations of the U.S. and Canada. The covered wagon of the pioneers morphed into orange U-Haul trailers. In the process, an industry was born.

U-Haul Holding Company and its family of companies, including U-Haul, have strived to create a culture of health and wellness. As of February 1, 2020, and consistent with applicable law, no U-Haul Holding Company or its family of companies will hire individuals in states where it may lawfully decline to hire individuals who use nicotine products (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington). This policy will not apply to team members hired before February 1, 2020.