Material Handler - Overhead Crane Operator

Benefits

✅Health, dental, and vision insurance

✅Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

✅ Paid time off and holidays

✅ 401(k) with company match

✅ Growth and advancement opportunities

📍 Location: Airway Heights, WA
💵 Pay: $20.00 – $28.25 per hour
📅 Job Type: Full-Time

Most employees start between $20.00 and $24.13.  The higher end of the range, $28.25, is reserved for candidates with exceptional experience or qualifications.

Summary: Operates traveling or stationary overhead crane (ground controlled) to lift, move, and position steel loads within the production facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Observe load hookup and determine the safety of the load.
• Manipulates or depresses crane control buttons, to regulate the speed and direction of crane and hoist movement.
• Uses hoisting attachments such as hook, sling, or bucket as load requires.
• Cleans and maintains a crane and hoisting mechanism.
• Inspects crane for defective parts and notifies supervisor of defects or malfunctions.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Education/Experience

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Ability

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, and other employees of the organization.

Math Ability

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment

Steel-toed shoes required

Lifting up to 25 #S

Moderate noise

Standing Frequently

8-hour shift - 2 10-minute breaks and 1 30-minute lunch break