Material Handler

Pay: $19.00 hr

Schedule: 9/80 schedule

Shift:

6:00 AM - 3:00 PM

• Optional lunch break extends shift to 3:30 PM

Assignment Length:

3-4 month assignment

• Potential opportunity for direct hire based on performance and business needs.

The Material Handler supports production teams at Acron Aviation by ensuring materials, parts, and supplies are continuously available to maintain efficient workflow across the manufacturing floor. This role focuses on keeping production cells fully supplied, removing completed items, and coordinating material movement so technicians and assemblers can remain focused on assembly and production tasks. By maintaining a steady flow of materials and managing visual replenishment signals, the Water Spider helps prevent downtime and supports on-time delivery of aviation products.

Essential Functions:

* Deliver raw materials, parts, and consumables (fasteners, packaging) to workstations in a just-in-time manner to maintain uninterrupted workflow.

* Support and sustain efficient production flow within assigned work cells, often configured in U-shaped layouts, ensuring technicians and assemblers remain focused on value added assembly tasks.

* Remove finished goods and empty containers from workstations and transport them to designated areas to maintain organized and efficient workspaces.

* Manage and monitor Kanban cards or visual signals to trigger timely material replenishment and maintain inventory levels at workstations.

* Assist with workstation setup activities, material staging, and quick changeovers to

support efficient production cycles and minimize downtime.

* Stage materials and assist with workstation changeovers to support efficient production transitions and minimize delays.

* Maintain a consistent pace to ensure workstations are never idle.

* Report material shortages, damaged materials, safety concerns, or production disruptions to appropriate personnel to ensure timely resolution.

* Perform other duties as assigned.

Required:

* A high school diploma or equivalent.

* 1-3 years of related manufacturing, production, warehouse, or material handling experience.

* Working knowledge of production processes and manufacturing, with ability to understand how materials flow through the production environment.

* Understanding of the entire production, process and, specific, work cells.

* Organization: Highly organized to manage, multiple, workflows, simultaneously.

* Effective verbal and written communication skills.

* Demonstrated reliability, strong work ethic, and consistent attendance.

* Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Preferred:

* Lean knowledge (Kanban, 5s, visual management)

Physical:

* The associate will frequently be required to stand and walk for long periods of time and to occasionally sit, bend, reach, or stoop to perform certain tasks.

* The associate will frequently be required to make coordinated hand and finger movements to grasp and manipulate objects.

* The associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.

* Specific vision abilities required by this job may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.