Job Details

Material Handler

PRIDE Industries is a fast-paced company with a mission: To Create Jobs for People with Disabilities while providing high quality, value-added solutions to our nationwide customers. We are currently recruiting to fill the following position:

Under general supervision, performs a variety of duties related to the organization, storage, and movement of products and materials within a warehouse. Employees in this job class review customer orders, pull products and materials from bins and load, unload, and transfer items among trucks or other transporting devices. This job requires knowledge of warehouse organization, processes and procedures, and the ability to operate hand-trucks, forklifts, and pallet jacks.

Typical duties include: performing activities involved in transferring materials from receiving to proper storage within a warehouse racking system, reviewing orders and pulling products from warehouse racking system to support order requirements, consolidating products and bins within warehouse or facility to maintain organization and efficiency, loading and unloading freight from trucks, storage containers or vehicles, and sorting and stacking materials to be palletized for movement, inspecting materials and products for proper and secure packaging, and maintaining integrity and condition in bin locations, processing real-time systematic transactions for moving materials using RF scan guns, operating motorized vehicles such as forklift and truck, receiving, storing, and issuing materials, equipment, and supplies as required, removing trash and cardboard from facility and disposing according to procedures, and performing other duties and special projects as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include: one year of clerical or customer service experience is desirable, preferably in receiving or warehousing; familiarity with receiving processes and procedures preferred; experience operating a forklift, RF Scan Gun, and other material handling equipment preferred; computer literacy and ability to look up and enter information using a computer; ability to learn specialized software related to departmental operations; communication skills to provide procedural and factual information, and respond to questions from customers, employees, and others; customer service skills to act responsively to customer inquiries and requests; and escalate the more difficult matters appropriately; knowledge of basic business English including vocabulary and spelling; mathematical ability including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; flexibility to adapt to changing work priorities; and demonstrated organizational, problem solving and common sense skills.

Education requirements include: high school diploma or GED.

Physical requirements include: ability to maneuver in and around the warehouse, bend and stoop, lift and move boxes weighing up to 35 pounds, pull or push up to 75 pounds, may require using a pallet jack, climbing on and off material handling equipment, viewing computer screen, and utilizing keyboard.

Work environment includes: work is performed in a commissary, warehouse, or distribution environment with forklifts, material handling and production equipment. May be exposed to noise from equipment and depending on external weather conditions exposure to heat, cold, wind, and rain.