Material Clerk - 1st Shift

Looking to build your career with a company that values innovation, stability, and people? Join our dedicated team as a Material Clerk in Madison, Mississippi!

Since 1946, Hunter Engineering has been aligning cutting-edge technology with a strong commitment to quality. As a family-owned, American-made company, Hunter is the global leader in automotive service equipment, with our products used in over 130 countries by top vehicle manufacturers, tire companies, and service centers.

We’re proud to be recognized as a Best Places to Work finalist by the St. Louis Business Journal for four consecutive years (2022 – 2025) – a testament to our commitment to our people. Here, employees are supported, challenged, and take pride in their work. We offer exceptional benefits, a healthy work-life balance, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.

If you’re ready to join a team that’s shaping the future of automotive service, read on.

Hunter offers $24.25 as the starting rate with opportunities for advancement in level and pay. This position is for our 1st shift (6 am - 3:30 pm Monday-Friday)

As a Material Clerk, you will receive, store, and distribute materials, and products within the distribution center to assigned areas.

What You’ll Do:

• Initiate purchase requisitions for materials and supplies as needed.
• Verifies material received against requisition, shipping notices, or invoices.
• Completes records concerned with quantity and type of material received, stored, and issued in the plant and use handheld scanner to enter records.
• Reads production schedules, customer orders, work orders, shipping notices, or invoices to determine irregularities.
• Conveys materials and items from receiving or production areas to storage or to other designated areas.
• Sorts and places materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined sequences such as size, type, style, and color or product code.
• Fills work orders or requests for materials, tools, or other stock items and distributes items to production workers or assembly line.
• Assembles customer orders from stock and places orders on pallets or shelves.
• Prepares parcels for mailing and shipping.
• Weighs or counts items for distribution within the plant to ensure conformance to company standards; opens bales, crates, and other containers.
• Operates material handling equipment to transport stored items from warehouse to plant or to pick up items from several locations within the plant for shipment.
• Maintain work area to sustain a clean and orderly environment and follow all safety rules.
• Must be willing and able to work overtime as an extension to a normal workday or on weekends, as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring:

• A high school diploma or GED is required, as well as 3 months of related experience and/or training.
• Must be able to operate material handling equipment such as forklift, overhead crane, motorized pallet jacks, or manual pallet jacks.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, safety rules, operating instruction, procedure manuals and memos.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers.
• Basic skill level of computer programs such as Microsoft Office are highly desirable.

What We Offer:

• Industry-Leading Healthcare Coverage
• Profit-Sharing Plan with Safe Harbor Contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

Join us in our mission to ‘Align People and Innovation to Drive Excellence!’

• Make Lives Better Together
• Take Pride in the Extraordinary
• Define the Standard