Position Summary

Responsible for safe and efficient movement, identification, handling, and storage of steel materials throughout the galvanizing process. Supports production by ensuring materials are received, identified, organized, and transported between workstations while meeting safety, quality, and productivity standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Material Handling and Movement

• Move steel materials, bundles, and finished products between workstations, staging areas, and storage locations.
• Assist with loading, unloading, positioning, and securing materials.
• Identify designated locations for incoming, in-process, and completed materials.
• Support transitions through sandblasting, cleaning, kettle operations, and material-handling areas.
• Stage materials to support production schedules; maintain clear, organized work areas.

Material Identification and Documentation

• Verify materials against identification tags, work orders, and manufacturing routers.
• Maintain identification and traceability; report missing tags, incorrect materials, or documentation discrepancies.
• Follow quality procedures: 8.0 Document and Data Control; 11.0 Identification of Material; 11.1 Material Receiving, Handling & Storage; 12.18 Processing Manufacturing Router.

Equipment Operation and Rigging

• Use approved material-handling equipment; operate cranes and forklifts only after required training, evaluation, and authorization.
• Follow safe rigging practices for slings, chains, hooks, and load securement.
• Conduct applicable pre-use inspections and observe equipment load limits and capacity requirements.
• Maintain safe forklift travel speeds, avoid obstructions, and report defective equipment.

Production Support and Efficiency

• Coordinate material movement with galvanizing personnel to maintain workflow.
• Follow work orders, production schedules, cycle-time expectations, and supervisor instructions.
• Communicate material shortages, obstructions, or workflow delays.
• Assist in other production activities as assigned and appropriately trained.

Safety and Compliance

• Wear required PPE including gloves, eye and hearing protection, and steel-toe boots.
• Recognize hazards from moving equipment, suspended loads, and workstation conditions.
• Follow emergency procedures, Hazard Communication/SDS guidance, and lockout/tagout awareness requirements.
• Report injuries, incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions promptly.
• Participate in required safety training and maintain clean, obstruction-free work areas.

Quality Control

• Handle materials to prevent damage, misidentification, and loss of traceability.
• Verify identification before transfer; report nonconforming or damaged materials.
• Follow documented quality instructions and complete assigned training.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions and recognize material tags, work orders, and basic production documents.
• Safety awareness, attention to detail, teamwork, reliable attendance, and willingness to learn.
• Preferred: manufacturing, galvanizing, steel fabrication, warehouse, forklift, crane, or rigging experience.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

Work may involve prolonged standing and walking, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, and repetitive material handling in a noisy industrial environment with heat, moving machinery, and outdoor or semi-outdoor conditions. PPE is required. Specific lifting requirements are determined by operational needs and safe-work procedures.