What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Handler / Shipping & Receiving – Forklift & Overhead Crane position at Hercules Sheet Metal?
Material Handler / Shipping & Receiving – Forklift & Overhead Crane
Hercules Sheet Metal & Metal Buildings
Chalmette, LA
Pay: $17.00 per hour
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
No weekends
Job Description
Hercules Sheet Metal & Metal Buildings is looking for a dependable, hardworking Material Handler / Shipping & Receiving team member to join our manufacturing operation.
This is an important position in our day-to-day operations. You will be responsible for receiving incoming material, loading customer trucks, pulling accessories and materials for jobs, checking paperwork, and helping make sure every order is correct before it leaves our facility.
Previous forklift and overhead crane experience is strongly preferred. We will train the right person on our products and procedures, but we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in an industrial environment and takes safety, accuracy, and quality seriously.
Responsibilities
- Safely operate forklifts and overhead cranes to move steel and other materials
- Load customer trucks and trailers safely and accurately
- Offload trucks and incoming material deliveries
- Check incoming material against purchase orders, packing slips, and receiving paperwork
- Verify quantities, sizes, and products to make sure we received what was ordered
- Identify and report damaged, missing, or incorrect material
- Pull accessories and components needed for metal building and customer orders
- Organize materials for upcoming jobs
- Double-check orders before they are loaded or released to customers
- Perform quality-control checks on outgoing materials
- Help ensure customers receive the correct products, quantities, and accessories
- Keep inventory and material organized in designated areas
- Maintain a clean and safe work area
- Communicate with sales, production, and management when there are discrepancies or missing materials
- Follow all company safety procedures when operating equipment and handling steel
What We're Looking For
The right person for this position is dependable, organized, safety-conscious, and pays attention to detail.
You need to be able to work independently, follow instructions, and recognize when something doesn't look right.
This position is more than simply loading and unloading trucks. You are one of our final quality-control checks before an order reaches the customer. Accuracy matters.
Preferred Experience
- Forklift operation
- Overhead crane operation
- Shipping and receiving
- Loading and unloading trucks
- Reading purchase orders, packing slips, and material lists
- Steel, sheet metal, metal building, manufacturing, warehouse, or construction-material experience
Experience working with long or heavy steel materials is a plus.
We will train the right candidate on Hercules products, inventory, paperwork, and procedures.
Physical Requirements
This is a hands-on position in an active manufacturing environment. Applicants must be able to:
- Work on their feet throughout the workday
- Bend, lift, carry, and move materials as required
- Work safely around forklifts, overhead cranes, trucks, steel, and manufacturing equipment
- Work in a warehouse/manufacturing environment that may be hot or cold depending on the weather
Schedule
Monday through Friday
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
No weekends.
Pay
Starting pay: $17.00 per hour
Opportunity for Growth
We are looking for someone who wants more than just a temporary job. There is room to grow within Hercules for employees who are dependable, take initiative, learn our operation, and show they can handle additional responsibility.
As you learn our products, equipment, inventory, and processes, there may be opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and advance within the company.
We value people who show up, work hard, pay attention, and take pride in what they do.
About Hercules
Hercules Sheet Metal & Metal Buildings is a fourth-generation, family-owned company serving the Gulf Coast since 1945.
We manufacture and supply metal building components, panels, trim, purlins, custom fabrication, and complete pre-engineered metal building packages.
We are looking for someone who wants steady, full-time work, an opportunity to grow, and a place where good employees can build a future.
Work Location: In person – Chalmette, LA
Pay: From $17.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- This position starts at $17.00/hour and works Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM in Chalmette. Are you able to reliably work this schedule and comfortable with the starting pay?
Experience:
- Forklift: 1 year (Preferred)
- operating an overhead crane : 1 year (Preferred)
- receiving deliveries and checking material: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $17