Material Handler

Material Handler

Requirements

• Minimum eighteen months experience at a Material Handler I level in areas of material handling, supply, distribution, inspection, QA, or related processes.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Must be able to use DSS and other automated distribution systems used at site.

Responsibilities

• Receives, identifies, examines and determines destination acceptability of items from a variety of supply sources including contractors, commercial vendors, and other federal installations.
• Uses a number of measuring devices such as tape measures, calipers, gauges, scales and meters as well as conversion charts to ascertain dimensions and make necessary computations.
• Determines the type of item and dimension check criteria using drawings and to use assembly drawings or simple blueprints in identifying parts to determine the completeness of incoming shipments.
• Maintains status of incoming material through accessing automated systems.
• Examines items and compares to purchase order or other documents to verify the correctness of the shipment.
• Assigns sequential control numbers to non-expendable items.
• Furnishes data to stock control, when it must obtain additional information from manufacturers in order to identify equipment.
• Informs users of discrepancies and obtains a decision concerning the item’s acceptability.
• Initiates rejection reports, listing faults or defects attesting to nonconformity with order requirements or other discrepancies.
• Verifies documents attesting to the correctness of the items specified section.
• Reports missing parts and discrepancies to the supervisor for correction.
• Expedites processing of material identified as critical or urgent.
• Tags rejected material and forwards to temporary storage area, maintaining a control card file on the material, showing location and status of items awaiting disposition.
• Plans loading and unloading procedures for incoming items.
• Obtains receiving documents and unloads incoming shipments of supplies and material as necessary.
• Directs other personnel in carrying out loading operations.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.