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The Material Handler reports to the Logistics Manager

Responsibilities:

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• Moving and staging work in process, completed product, and raw material within the shipping and receiving department
• Moving and staging work in process, completed product, and raw material within the printing and converting departments
• Moving, processing, and disposing of scrap within the Printing and Converting Departments
• Operating a forklift safely and efficiently
• Responsible for organization of all product, raw material and removal of scrap in and around the production area.
• Complete all required paperwork.
• Inform supervisor immediately of all maintenance issues prior to request being filled out as well as quality, housekeeping, safety, or production issues.
• Other duties may be assigned

Requirements:

• Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 
• Must be mechanically inclined.

Essential Skills and Abilities: 

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules. 
• Must be able to pass an eye exam to distinguish color tones
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to request clarification when needed. 
• Ability to speak effectively with co-workers, supervisors or others within the company.
• Ability to perform duties with minimal direction and be self motivated.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Accurately read a tape measure

Essential Physical Requirements:

• The employee must be able to keep up with moderate speed production machines.
•  Manual dexterity required with exposure to arm, wrist and back fatigue. 
• The employee continuously uses their arms, hands and fingers to handle, grasp, hold, grip and squeeze. 
• The employee routinely bends and lifts up to 50 pounds of plastic, pulls and drags sheets of plastic,  rearranges and organizes product, climbs /descends stairs and pushes a broom to clean production floor. 
• The employee stands approximately 4 hours and frequently walks in the production area to locate materials and check materials. 
• Stretching and reaching to reprocess discarded plastic is done on a routine basis.
• The employee routinely steps up 1 ½ feet and pulls themselves into the seat of a forklift.  Operation of pallet jacks, lifting equipment and driving the forklift are essential to job responsibilities. 

Work Environment: 

This position requires that the employee be able to work:

• The employee is constantly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
•  Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to very loud. 
• An essential part of this position is to work in a teamwork environment. 
• The employee is exposed to temperature variances; extreme heat during the summer and cold temperatures during the winter.

Education/Experience:

High school diploma or equivalent (GED) required. Up to 24 months related experience/training or equivalent combination of education and experience.