Forklift Operator
Aerotek
**Job Title: Material Handler**
**Job Description**
We are seeking Warehouse Material Handlers for various shifts. This role is essential in our fast-paced receiving and shipping dock. The ideal candidate will have warehouse experience and a passion for the field.
**Responsibilities**
+ Perform normal picking and stacking initially before moving to equipment operation.
+ Operate an Electric Pallet Jack/Walkie Rider for 60-70% of the day after training.
+ Load and unload trucks, ensuring products are correctly stored in receiving.
+ Process entire orders and separate them by product numbers.
+ Use an RF scanner to track inventory.
+ Pick products, verify the number of boxes and quantity, and ensure correct shipment locations.
+ Stack boxes on pallets for shipment and shrink wrap finished products.
+ Train on equipment such as forklifts and walkie riders after the first month.
**Essential Skills**
+ Experience with Electric Pallet Jack/Walkie Rider.
+ Ability to work weekends and open to every weekend.
+ Understanding that equipment operation will not start on day one.
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ Stand-up forklift experience preferred.
**Why Work Here?**
Our facility is a distribution center shipping medical supplies nationwide and to nearly 50 other countries. We offer a corporate lunchroom with heavily discounted food options, fostering a supportive and secure work environment. Our company has consistently grown over the past decade and offers significant promotion opportunities. Many supervisors and managers have been promoted from within, including two current Vice Presidents who started as warehouse temps. We provide bonuses for attendance, accuracy, and productivity, significantly increasing the total monthly hourly rate.
**Work Environment**
Our warehouse processes products that arrive via trucks and are dispatched within five days. The facility employs about 60 people and is looking to expand. The work environment can be hot in summer and cool in winter. Employees are required to wear steel-toed or work boots, and shorts are allowed. A blank t-shirt with no graphics is part of the dress code. Shifts vary, including early morning, afternoon, and potential weekend hours.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Mundelein, Illinois.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $20.50
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
**Workplace Type**
This is a fully onsite position in Mundelein,IL.
**Application Deadline**
This position will be accepting applications until Jan 14, 2025.
**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.
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