Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging and aerospace solutions. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Are you an experienced forklift operator/warehouse associate with great teamwork skills? Are you looking for a direct hire position with an excellent company that offers opportunities for overtime and career growth?

We have multiple Material Handler openings at our Pittston, PA plant. Material Handlers will operate a forklift and work within established safety practices and policies and provide services in support of the plant’s production and safety goals.

Our plant is high-volume, fast-paced 24/7-365 days/year manufacturing environment. Our crews work 12 ¼ -hour shifts (5:45am-6pm/5:45pm-6am) working 3 days on/3 days off and rotating from day to night shift every 6 weeks. The Material Handlers are assigned to a production crew.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Unload, receive, inspect, and stage raw materials, scrap, packaging materials, chemicals, and other supplies; replenish supplies in assigned areas.
• Remove finished products from production areas to ensure proper identification, banding, and labeling to meet customer specifications and ensure finished goods are properly documented for shipment.
• Review warehouse production planning schedule to determine duties for shipping and receiving; stage and load finished goods and materials in line with the warehouse and production planning schedule.
• Coordinate all processed scrap materials at bins and hoppers.
• Routinely conduct inspection of assigned equipment, materials used for packaging and trailers and air bags and communicate any machine malfunctions to supervisor.
• Perform and support 5S standards within work area and plant; identify areas of waste and participate in process improvements.

Basic Qualifications needed to be considered:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 1 year of work experience in an manufacturing environment.
• Safety conscious with ethical integrity to maintain a safe work environment.

• Demonstrated team collaboration skills including the ability to manage stress to resolve issues and maintain a positive and productive work environment.

Additional qualifications/skills that could make you an ideal candidate:

• 3 or more years of forklift operation and maintenance.
• Working knowledge of proper hazardous waste management.
• Forklift certification.

• Experience using JD Edwards, AS900 or other similar warehouse or ERP system.

Compensation & Benefits

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  Hourly Rate: $ 24.80
• [This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.]
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups, and aerosol bottles to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

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