Job Details
**Who We Are**
Vermeer equips customers doing important work around the world. We are global, driven by innovation and growing. The equipment we make manages natural resources, connects people and feeds and fuels communities. We live out a caring culture, we demonstrate agility, we keep a focus on customers and are stewards of our resources. These beliefs drive our culture, determine how we treat others and steer our business.
**Job Summary**
**Work Shift**
1 - First Shift****
The Material Handler stores and distributes materials and product throughout the manufacturing environment by means of a variety of material handling equipment.****
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities** include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
1. Demonstrate the Vermeer characteristics of caring culture, demonstrating agility, customer focused, and stewardship and model the associated behaviors.
2. Read production schedules, customer orders, work orders, shipping orders, or requisitions to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed.
3. Convey materials and items from receiving or production areas to designated areas throughout the manufacturing facility.
4. Sort and place materials on racks, shelves, or in bins according to documented standard work, or predetermined sequence (i.e. part number, commodity, size, product code).
5. Fill requisitions, work orders, or requests for material, tools, or other stock items and distribute to production work areas.
6. Mark materials with identifying information.
7. Open boxes, crates, and other containers.
8. Weigh or count items for distribution to ensure conformance to standard work and company policy.
9. Fill customer orders from stock and convey orders to packing stations or shipping department.
10. Drive forklift or other material handling vehicles when necessary.
11. Support 5S/workplace organization goals of the department and offer suggestions and make improvements that achieve the departments performance board metrics.
**Education and/or Experience**
- High School diploma or general education degree.
- Less than one year related experience and/or training.
**Other Skills and Abilities**
- Effectively present information verbally and written and respond to questions from groups of managers and suppliers.
- Perform basic functions in Glovia.
- Perform problem solving techniques and root cause analysis.
- Perform multiple tasks simultaneously; ability to assess, evaluate, and carry out appropriate action for a given situation.
**Essential Functions**
**Standing:** Frequently
**Sitting:** Frequently
**Walking:** Frequently
**Hand Coordination:** At least average/bilateral
**Twisting:** Rarely (up to 1 minute in position)
**Bending - Trunk:** Rarely (up to 1 minute in position)
**Bending - Neck:** Occasionally (up to 25 degree flex & 30 degree extension for up to 2 minutes)
**Elevated Work/Reach:** Rarely (up to 1 minute in position)
**Squatting/Kneeling:** Rarely (up to 1 minute in position)
**Climbing:** Rarely
**Pulling:** Rarely (up to 80 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs) Frequently (up to 10 lbs)
**Pushing:** Rarely (up to 80 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs) Frequently (up to 10 lbs)
**RH Grip:** Rarely (up to 80 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs) Frequently (up to 10 lbs)
**LH Grip:** Rarely (up to 80 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs) Frequently (up to 10 lbs)
**RH Pinch:** Rarely (up to 15 lbs) Occasionally (up to 5 lbs) Frequently (up to 2 lbs)
**LH Pinch:** Rarely (up to 15 lbs) Occasionally (up to 5 lbs) Frequently (up to 2 lbs)
**Floor to Waist Lift:** Rarely (up to 50 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs)
**Horizontal Lift:** (up to 50 lbs) Occasionally (up to 20 lbs) Frequently (up to 10 lbs)
**Waist to Crown Lift:** Rarely (up to 40 lbs) Occasionally (up to 5 lbs)
**Certificates, Licenses, Registration**
Must have the ability to obtain a Vermeer Forklift Operators License.
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**Work Location**
ONSITE: A team members day-to-day work is best done on a Vermeer campus. If work content can be occasionally completed at an offsite location, discuss potential arrangements with your manager.**Equal Opportunity Employer**
At Vermeer Corporation, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other status protected by the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact Team Member Solutions at (641) ###-#### or at ...@vermeer.com .
Our reach is global, our impact is personal. By joining Vermeer, you wont just be making the right step for your career. Youll be making a real, personal impact on our people, our customers and our world.
**Impact Our People:** Youll find teams of hardworking people who take pride in their work, pride in each other and pride in the principles that guide them. Our team members are diverse, talented and driven to continuously learn, improve and innovate, both for our company and for their careers.
**Impact Our Customers:** Whether our customers are operating small stump cutters in their backyard or giant surface mining equipment in Australia, they make progress happen. Our team members are constantly turning up new possibilities and collaboratively innovating to keep our customers and the people they serve on the leading-edge of progress around the world.
**Impact Our World:** At Vermeer, we believe in giving back and helping people and communities. Weve held that belief from our founding in 1948. Our reach extends from offering impressive benefits that help our team members and their families live well, to supporting our local communities through volunteer and community investment programs. Our impact is also experienced by the way our customers use Vermeer products to make a difference. Vermeer equipment is used all around the world to keep people connected to life necessities, such as water and electricity, harvest the feed that nourishes a vibrant food supply and effectively manage precious natural resources that improve our quality of life.