1st Shift Forklift Operator/Material Handler

Job Title: Forklift Operator and Material Handler

Job Description

Day shift material handling and forklift operation. Hours are 7am to 3:30pm. Responsibilities include stacking, handling, and moving products/skids throughout the plant, including finished products, materials, scrap, trash, and equipment safely and without damage. You will organize and stage WIP inventory in secondary operations to facilitate production. This position involves basic data entry and some computer work. You need to perform simple mathematics to record and maintain tally sheets, inventory sheets, inventory tags, and scrap weights. This is a contract-to-hire position that could lead to a permanent role in Final Packaging on 3rd shift (7pm to 7am) with a rotating schedule (4 nights one week and 3 nights the next week).

Hard Skills

Operate a sit-down forklift

Pass the tow motor operation test

Read and understand reel tags, scrap tags, and tally sheets

Move and layout materials and products for manufacturing

Count and record amounts accurately

Collect and dispose of purge, scrap, and trash

Basic data entry and computer familiarity

Simple mathematics for inventory management

Soft Skills

Attention to safety

Ability to follow specific instructions

Organizational skills

Job Type

This is a contract position with a duration of 5 Month(s).

Work Site

This is a fully on-site position in New Holland, Pennsylvania.

Work Environment

A very clean production facility, climate-controlled, but can still get warm. The company makes copper cable/wire. Safety-toed boots or shoes are required at all times, including during the interview tour. The company has a dress code. Once the position moves fully to New Holland, contractors work a 12-hour shift and are paid for all 12 hours. Breaks are taken as a relief person goes around to relieve each employee in an area, and may not be at the exact same time every night.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000 light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000 employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500 experienced recruiters across 250 offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.