Job Description

** Role Description**

The Material Handler is responsible for safely carrying out the work assignments received from the Distribution Center Manager or Lead. Primary responsibilities include fabrication, wire rope handling, cutting, packaging, and shipment preparation.

The Material Handler must exhibit and proactively motivate others in the behaviors of the WireCo Business System (WBS):

• Teamwork - welcomes an environment of inclusiveness and healthy debate that reflects our team’s strength
• Accountable – celebrates our successes, learn from failures, avoid excuses, and own the outcomes of our efforts
• Self-Aware – demonstrates an understanding of our strengths and needs, considering how our actions impact others
• Noble Intent – acts in the interests of others, approaching our work with integrity to ensure the best outcome
• Determined – takes initiative, share ideas and find solutions to win and achieve our goals
• Transparent – promotes open and honest communication and constructive feedback for clarity and truth
• Curious – seeks knowledge and outside input to test our way of thinking, challenging the status quo

** Duties & Responsibilities**

• Inspect and verify incoming and outgoing materials; locate reels as needed. Cut and handle rope for shipment or fabrication according to specifications. Operate rewinding machines, spool, and coil various sizes of rope and strand to meet customer orders.
• Conduct quality inspections on rope, collaborating with others to load and unload trucks, and assemble reels.
• Prepare reels and coils for shipment, including labeling, tagging, and completing shipping documentation.
• Manage strand and wire rope of varying diameters and lengths on reels or in coils, including empty or unassembled reels, paper lagging strips, tags, seizing wire, blocking, and thimbles.
• Use tools like saws, lasers, and presses to cut or shape materials to required dimensions.
• Assemble parts using techniques like welding, bolting, or riveting to ensure proper construction.
• Select and prepare materials - metals, plastics, composites - for the fabrication, coating, or surface enhancement (e.g., painting, polishing).

1st shift, 7:00am to 3:00pm M-F, OT available

Starting pay $21/hour

+ Monthly incentive payments after 90-day probationary period

Qualifications

** Required Qualifications**

• A high school diploma or GED
• Ability to learn all processes and show competency

Materials and Equipment Directly Used

• Personal protective equipment, including safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, and steel-toed safety shoes
• Rewinding machines, stanchions, shafts, collars, bushings, rope cutters, measuring devise, fork trucks, banding equipment, welders, various hand tools
• Standard office equipment including, but not limited to: computer, mouse, keyboard, telephone, fax, calculator, multifunction copier

Additional Information

** Additional Information**

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• An applicant must complete a satisfactory background check post-offer of employment. A criminal conviction will not be an automatic bar to employment.
• Must be willing and able to pass a post-offer drug screen and physical (if required)
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability