Materials Handler

About the role

Pride Bodies Ltd., a Wabtec company in Cambridge, Ontario, designs and manufactures custom truck bodies for utility, service, construction and railway applications. The Materials Handler works closely with the sourcing and inventory team to support the production department, reporting to the Sourcing and Inventory Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Pick, pack and ship customer orders.
• Count, verify, receive and put away incoming vendor material and in-house manufactured components.
• Pick and stage parts to meet the production schedule.
• Receive goods from internal and external suppliers, ship returns and outgoing materials, and perform daily inspections such as forklift and yard checks.
• Perform inventory control, including cycle counts and submitting replenishment orders to Sourcing.
• Drive trucks for supplier part pickups and vehicle movement; driving and shuttling may also be required.

Required profile

• Able to stay flexible with changing priorities in a fast-paced automotive environment.
• Minimum two years' experience in shipping and receiving using an ERP system (Global Shop Solutions experience is an asset).
• Minimum two years' experience in inventory control, including cycle counting.
• Willingness to be trained and certified to operate a forklift.
• Clean driver's abstract (D licence is an asset).
• Written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and computer literacy in MS Word and Excel.

What we offer

• Day shift: 41-hour week, Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday 7 a.m. to noon.
• Wage rate of $26.74.
• Annual vacation and company-paid holidays.
• Health care, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, disability coverage and out-of-country medical, effective upon hire.
• Group RRSP/DPSP, uniforms, safety-boot allowance and prescription-safety-glass allowance after probation, education assistance, bus route and on-site parking.