MATERIAL HANDLING LABORER

Location: Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA

Job Description:

The Material Handling Laborer will perform physical tasks to transport or store materials or merchandise. Duties involve one or more of the following: manually loading or unloading freight cars, trucks, or other transporting devices; unpacking, shelving, or placing items in proper storage locations; or transporting goods by hand truck, cart, or wheelbarrow.

Excluded from this definition are workers whose primary function involves: a. Participating directly in the production of goods (e.g., moving items from one production station to another or placing them on or removing them from the production process); b. Stocking merchandise for sale; c. Counting or routing merchandise; d. Operating a crane or heavy-duty motorized vehicle such as forklift or truck; e. Loading and unloading ships (alongshore workers); f. Traveling on trucks beyond the establishment's physical location to load or unload merchandise.

Job duties of the Material Handling Laborer also include Heavy Equipment Operator duties on occasion to include: operating heavy equipment such as cranes, clamshells, power shovels, motor graders, heavy loaders, carryalls, bulldozers, rollers, scrapers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scrapper attachments. Equipment is used to excavate, load or move dirt, gravel, or other materials. While operating as a Heavy Equipment Operator, the Material Handling Laborer may read and interpret grade and slope stakes and simple plans, and may grease, adjust, and make emergency repairs to equipment. This position also operates Heavy Forklifts and Rough Terrain Cargo Handler equipment.

PD Systems is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

PD Systems is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Employment decisions at PD Systems are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.