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Material Handler

The Greenbrier Companies
Tacoma, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026
At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.

Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.

Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day.

Summary

The Material Handler is responsible for loading, unloading, and moving materials within or near the plant, yard, or work site.

Duties And Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.

  • Receives, processes and tags incoming material
  • Moves inventory materials to their respective area
  • Delivers parts to areas in the plant where work is in process
  • Performs cycle counting and physical inventories as directed
  • Maintains forklift trucks in clean, good working order


Qualifications

The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Ability to work within a team environment, communicate professionally with team members and vendors, clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing
  • Ability to organize and prioritize projects and information with accurate turnaround under tight timeframes
  • Ability to identify, plan, start, and complete projects or other work that needs to be accomplished


Preferred Qualifications

  • Materials or warehouse experience
  • One years’ work experience as a material handler in an industrial setting
  • Experience driving a forklift or other heavy equipment


Work Environment And Physical Requirements

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

With the exception of clerical, administrative, and some management positions, the physical environment requires the employee to work in hot and cold environments, in and out of the weather, work safely around heavy equipment and on top of and under railcars, as well as around railroad tracks. Employees are required to use personal protective equipment such as steel toe boots, hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, welding and grinding shields, etc. or as environmental conditions dictate.

Physical Activities And Requirements

Frequency Key

Not Applicable: Activity is not applicable to this occupation

Occasionally: Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5 hours/day)

Frequently: Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5: 5.5 hours/day)

Constantly: Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5 hours/day)

Working Postures

  • Sit: Occasionally
  • Walk: Frequently
  • Bend: Frequently
  • Kneel/Squat: Frequently
  • Crawl: Frequently
  • Climb: Frequently
  • Reach Forward: Frequently
  • Reach Upward: Frequently
  • Handling/Fingering: Frequently


Lift / Carry Requirements

  • 5-10 lbs: Frequently
  • 10-25 lbs: Frequently
  • 25-50 lbs: Frequently
  • 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
  • 75 lbs: Not Applicable


Push / Pull Requirements

  • Up to 10 lbs: Frequently
  • 10-25 lbs: Frequently
  • 25-50 lbs: Frequently
  • 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
  • 75 lbs: Not Applicable


EOE including Vet/Disability

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Greenbrier makes reasonable accommodations in the application and hiring process for individuals with known disabilities, unless providing accommodation would result in an undue hardship. Any applicant believing that he or she may need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact Greenbrier Human Resources at careers@gbrx.com or call us at 503-684-7000.

Email communication from The Greenbrier Companies (Greenbrier) will always come from a corporate email address that ends in @gbrx.com or from our applicant tracking system, iCIMS, after you have created a secure account and submitted your application. During the application process, you will create a secure account in our secure applicant tracking site that ends with “-gbrx.icims.com”. In this portal, we will ask you to provide your contact information, past employment history, education history and other job-related information.

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