Material Handler Night Shift - Nebraska Staffing : Job Details

Primary Purpose of this Position: Fill customer orders and put together shipments of fabricated bar, warehouse bar, and other materials for shipments to customer and suppliers. Receive and unload incoming material from suppliers. Locate material into inventory storage, staging areas, and work areas.

Essential Job Functions:

• Identify steel shapes, sizes, and mill tolerances.
• Locate material as trained and instructed.
• Locate bars or mesh according to the layout shown on yard map, cut lists, and shop drawings.
• Load/unload trailers, rail cars, customer vehicles, and machines.
• Identify cut list and shop drawing errors and discrepancies before or during early stages of fabrication.
• Operate overhead cranes, forklifts, jib cranes, conveyors, and transfers in order to move materials.
• Attend all meetings as required by management.
• Consistently and reliably works scheduled hours at assigned locations.

Qualifications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read, write, and perform higher arithmetic computations.
• Ability to understand and carry out semi-complicated verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to effectively communicate with vendors, co-workers, supervisors, and managers.
• Ability to work under periodic supervision focused on the progress of work.
• Skill in using auto measurer, tape measure, or 1 rule.
• Ability to pass a Drake-Williams Steel, Inc. administered test that covers shop drawing interpretation, fractional number calculations, basic geometry, etc.
• Ability to interpret, understand, and utilize cutting lists, shop orders, and shop drawings.
• Ability to use a computer for cut-lists and inventory purposes.
• Ability to possess pride in own workmanship, demonstrate attention to detail, and work safely.
• Ability to operate forklifts and overhead cranes in a safe and proper manner.
• Perform minor mechanical tasks on machines.
• Ability to follow inventory procedures.
• Ability to multi-task.

Physical Demands:

• Stand frequently over the course of the 8 to 12 hour work shift.
• Walk continuously over the course of the 8 to 12 hour work shift.
• Lift weights up to 30 pounds frequently.
• Lift weights up to 60 pounds occasionally.
• Carry weights noted above.
• Climb occasionally to frequently up and down steps, ladders, or onto conveyors.
• Stoop or crouch occasionally.
• Kneel occasionally.
• Crawl occasionally.
• Reach forward occasionally to frequently.
• Reach overhead occasionally to frequently.
• Push and pull material occasionally to frequently.
• Pull hand over hand occasionally to frequently.
• Upper extremity whipping/shaking motion of rebar occasionally to frequently.

Non-Material Handling Demands:

• Employee is expected to work 40 hours a week.
• Hear sufficiently to be aware of safety issues.
• Visual ability to read and interpret cut lists and shop drawings.
• Exposure to heat, cold, wet, and humid conditions.
• Exposure to fumes, odors, and dusts occasionally.
• Exposure to solvents, greases, oils, and coolants occasionally.
• Wear all required Personal Protective Equipment.

Tools Required:

• Pencil
• Tape Measure
• Markers
• Chainsaw
• Cables
• Pry-Bar
• Ladders
• Remote Control
• Band Cutters
• Wire Cutters
• Bolt Cutters

Machines Utilized:

• Overhead Crane
• Jib Crane
• Transfers
• Forklifts

Experience and Education Required:

• Minimum of six months of experience in a steel manufacturing environment preferred.