Material Handler

undefined ago • 3-6 Years • $41,600 PA - $47,840 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Material Handler position at Wabtec involves performing manual and clerical duties related to storing, issuing, and delivering materials, equipment, and supplies. Incumbents exercise independent judgment due to a broad knowledge of materials handling, provide training, and resolve problems. Key responsibilities include transporting materials, providing parts to assembly cells, monitoring stock levels, performing cycle counts, and operating material handling equipment. The role requires attention to safety and the ability to handle high-dollar, fragile, or hazardous materials.
Must have:
  • Perform manual and clerical duties related to storing, issuing, and delivering materials, equipment, and supplies.
  • Report unusual problems to supervisor.
  • Keep work areas clean and orderly.
  • Exercise decision making and independent judgement in materials handling operations.
  • Provide on-the-job training and problem resolution to others.
  • Handle high-dollar cost, fragile equipment, or hazardous materials when necessary.
  • Transport material from receiving areas to storage locations or designated areas.
  • Understand warehouse locations and inventory systems.
  • Provide needed parts to assembly cells.
  • Monitor stock levels and report low inventory to management.
  • Perform cycle counts and enter results in ERP system.
  • Count, weigh, or measure incoming or outgoing items against bills of lading, invoices, orders or other records.
  • Operate material handling equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, hand trucks or dollies.
Good to have:
  • Technical associate’s degree preferred
  • Previous mechanical/electrical assembly experience
  • Experience with using lifts and hoists

Job Details

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who will you be working with?

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

How will you make a difference?

  • This position performs manual and clerical duties related to storing, issuing, and delivering a variety of materials, equipment, and supplies. Must report unusual problems to supervisor. Must keep work areas clean and orderly. May be required to perform other related duties as required.

What do we want to know about you?

  • High school diploma or general education degree (GED); technical associate’s degree preferred; 3 – 6 years of work-related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Communication Skills Ability to understand verbal and written instructions. Spanish and/or English at a conversational level.
  • Mechanical Skills: Manual dexterity and ability to work with hand tools such as air power impact guns, rivet guns, air drills, basic hand tools like pliers, hammers, crimpers, cutters, and ability to identify and work with metric and standard tools as wrench sets and drive sockets, power tools such as electric drills, sanders, etc.
  • Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Forklift Certification is required.
  • Other Qualifications: Flexibility to work overtime and weekend hours.
  • Ability to read blueprints, previous mechanical/electrical assembly experience, experience with using lifts and hoists, ability to lift up to 35 pounds. Have the initiative to identify safety issues, raise their hand and bring these issues to the Lead person or Supervisor.

What will your typical day look like?

  • Incumbents perform many of the same duties as a Materials Handler Assistant but are distinguished in that incumbent’s exercise decision making and independent judgement due to a broader knowledge of the materials handling operation and provide on the job training and problem resolution to others. Incumbents may be responsible for a higher volume, high dollar amount and/or be assigned responsibility over one or more specified areas. Incumbents are expected to handle high-dollar cost and fragile equipment or supplies and hazardous materials, such as chemicals or gases, when necessary. May be required to lift heavy objects.
  • Transport material from receiving areas to storage locations or designated areas and understanding warehouse locations and inventory systems.
  • Provide needed parts to assembly cells and monitor stock levels and report low inventory to management.
  • Perform cycle counts and enter results in ERP system
  • Counts, weighs, or measures incoming or outgoing items to compare identifying information and variety against bills of lading, invoices, orders or other records.
  • Operates material handling equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, hand trucks or dollies to move stock or reorganize storage.

What about the physical demands of the job?

  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Lift up to 35 pounds.
  • They will be standing 100%
  • Hearing 100%
  • Pushing up to 30 pounds
  • Stooping/bending 20% of the time
  • Reaching 20%
  • Walking 25%
  • Seeing 100%

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

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About The Company

Want to move the world? Want to innovate and bring that innovation to life? At Wabtec, we are in the business of realizing potential – that of the transportation industry, and yours! Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective success across the vibrant portfolios of Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, we offer employees hands-on opportunities all over the world to shape the future of transportation – as well as their own. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, leveraging our digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services to create transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Along with our industry-leading portfolio of products and solutions for the rail and transit industries, Wabtec is a leader in mining, marine, and industrial solutions.

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