Material Handler II - First Shift

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Material Handler II – Shipping Department

Location: Tracy, California
Department: Distribution / Shipping
Position: Material Handler II

Position Summary

The Material Handler II – Shipping is responsible for supporting daily outbound shipping operations within the Tracy Distribution Center. This role ensures customer orders are accurately scanned, consolidated, palletized, staged, and loaded onto outbound trucks while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, accuracy, and on-time delivery.

The Material Handler II works in a fast-paced distribution environment and is expected to follow established standard operating procedures (SOPs), safety requirements, and quality standards. This position requires teamwork, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize work to meet daily shipping and carrier deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Load outbound trucks safely, accurately, and efficiently.
• Scan customer orders to the appropriate pallet, shipment, or staging location.
• Build, wrap, label, and stage pallets for outbound transportation.
• Verify shipment information and ensure orders are placed on the correct pallet and loaded onto the correct trailer.
• Perform final shipment checks to help prevent mis-shipments, shortages, and shipping errors.
• Move finished orders from shipping lanes to designated staging and loading areas.
• Operate approved material-handling equipment as trained and authorized.
• Maintain accurate scanning and shipping transactions within applicable warehouse systems.
• Follow carrier schedules, shipping priorities, and daily cutoff times.
• Communicate shipment discrepancies, damaged product, system issues, or safety concerns to the Shipping Lead or Supervisor.
• Maintain clean and organized docks, staging lanes, and work areas.
• Follow all site safety, quality, regulatory, and operational procedures.
• Support additional shipping and distribution activities as business needs require.

Requirements:

Education: High School Diploma OR GED Required

Experience: 1+ year of working knowledge of warehouse or shipping processes, including order scanning, pallet building, staging, truck loading, shipping documentation, and safe material-handling practices preferred

Day in the Life – Examples

1. Preparing and Scanning Outbound Orders
You begin your shift by reviewing shipping priorities and carrier schedules with the team. Throughout the day, you scan completed customer orders to the correct outbound pallet or staging location, verify labels and shipment information, and make sure orders are properly consolidated. You identify and escalate discrepancies before they become shipping errors.

2. Building Pallets and Loading Trucks
As carrier pickup times approach, you prepare completed pallets for shipment by ensuring they are properly built, wrapped, labeled, and staged. You move pallets to the appropriate dock door and safely load outbound trailers according to shipping requirements while verifying that the correct freight is loaded onto the correct truck.

3. Supporting Shipping Operations and On-Time Delivery
During high-volume periods, you work closely with Shipping Leads, transportation partners, and other warehouse departments to keep orders moving. You may help clear staging lanes, reorganize freight, perform shipment checks, resolve scanning issues, and prepare the dock for the next carrier. Before completing your shift, you help ensure the shipping area is clean, organized, and ready for continued operations.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

1. Shipping and Material-Handling Knowledge
Working knowledge of warehouse and shipping processes, including order scanning, pallet building, staging, truck loading, shipping documentation, and safe material-handling practices. Ability to learn and correctly follow site SOPs and established shipping processes.

2. Accuracy, Organization and Attention to Detail
Ability to accurately scan, verify, and stage customer orders in a fast-paced distribution environment. Strong attention to detail is required to ensure the correct orders are assigned to the correct pallets, staging lanes, carriers, and outbound trailers.

3. Safety, Teamwork and Communication
Demonstrates a strong commitment to workplace safety and quality. Ability to communicate effectively with coworkers, leads, supervisors, and other departments; recognize and escalate problems; work collaboratively as part of a team; and adjust priorities to support customer requirements and daily shipping deadlines.

Physical and Work Environment Requirements

This position requires regular standing, walking, bending, reaching, and material handling throughout the shift. Team members must be able to work in an active distribution center and shipping dock environment and safely perform the physical requirements of the position in accordance with company policies.

The Material Handler II is expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, quality, safety awareness, and a customer-focused mindset while contributing to the overall success of the Tracy Distribution Center.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards