Material Handler (EPI) @ Aerotek

Material Handler (EPI)Vancouver, WA12-hour Compressed Day ShiftJob DescriptionThe Material Handler (EPI) supports production by safely organizing, transporting, and staging materials between buildings and process areas across the worksite. This role involves driving a box truck, loading and unloading containers, preparing materials for production operators, and working both in a highly automated cleanroom and in warehouse and outdoor staging areas. The position requires strict adherence to detailed procedures, accurate documentation, and high attention to safety and quality standards while working 12.5-hour day shifts on a compressed workweek schedule.

Responsibilities

• Organize, stage, and manage production materials to ensure operators have the correct materials available at the right time and location.
• Drive transport vehicles, including a box truck and golf cart, safely between buildings to move materials throughout the worksite.
• Load and unload material containers, boxes, and carts, ensuring materials are properly secured for transport and safely moved between inventory, staging, and production areas.
• Transfer materials from storage cartons to carts and prepare materials for processing by unpacking, opening cartons, and arranging items according to procedures.
• Follow complex, detailed procedures and complete all required documentation and electronic records accurately and on time to meet daily production targets.
• Use computerized systems to electronically move and track material, input data, and create reports, forms, and labels for each process step and tool.
• Review work orders and load materials onto the appropriate tool sets, ensuring the correct recipes and process parameters are selected according to customer specifications.
• Perform daily calibrations on process tools, verify calibration data meets specifications, and only release tools to production when requirements are met.
• Continuously monitor, analyze, and verify process and material data to ensure all steps meet quality specifications before advancing materials to the next process step.
• Operate robotic and automated equipment to lift, unload, raise, lower, and transport materials, products, and related equipment safely and efficiently.
• Use effective time management to handle multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and organization.
• Identify, report, and help prevent variations, errors, or lapses in quality, and ensure quality issues are documented, corrected, and not repeated.
• Follow all documented training, procedures, and processes to maintain high quality and consistency in material handling and production support.
• Act as a role model for safe work practices by consistently using safe behaviors, prioritizing safety over deadlines, and working cautiously around moving mechanical parts.
• Wear required personal protective equipment, including full cleanroom garments and other PPE, and follow all safety and cleanroom protocols.
• Communicate clearly in English with supervisors and co-workers, and read, understand, and explain instructions, procedures, manuals, and reports as needed.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying and reporting suggestions for process, safety, or quality improvements to the appropriate leaders.
• Stand and walk for extended periods during 12-hour shifts while performing repetitive material handling tasks such as lifting, bending, stooping, squatting, and reaching.
• Wrap pallets, safely move pallets using a pallet jack, and load and secure carts and materials in transport vehicles.
• Use basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and decimals, to support material tracking and process requirements.

Essential Skills

• Valid drivers license with a clean driving record and ability to safely operate transport vehicles, including golf carts and box trucks, such as backing into tight spaces.
• Ability to bend, stoop, squat, lift, and reach to move boxes of product from inventory locations to transport carts and staging areas.
• Capability to push, pull, and guide transport carts through doorways, hallways, and loading docks.
• Ability to move, lift, carry, and transport material boxes filled with poly silicon wafers weighing approximately 5 to 30 pounds each.
• Physical ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
• Ability to push a wheeled cart weighing approximately 20 pounds and occasionally up to approximately 500 pounds.
• Capacity to cut open, lift, and move material storage boxes 50 to 400 times during each shift.
• Experience safely wrapping pallets and moving them with a pallet jack.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and work up to 12.5-hour shifts on a compressed schedule.
• Comfort working around hazardous and volatile materials in accordance with safety procedures.
• Ability to determine material quantities needed and transfer the correct quantities to predetermined locations.
• Skill in reviewing work orders, loading material onto appropriate tool sets, and selecting correct recipes according to specifications.
• Ability to perform daily calibrations on process tools and verify that all calibration data meets process specifications.
• Capability to monitor, analyze, and verify data to ensure all processes meet quality specifications before moving material to the next step.
• Experience operating robotic or automated equipment to handle and transport materials and products.
• Strong time management skills in a multitasking environment with high attention to detail and organization.
• Proficiency using a computer and keyboard to input data, track and confirm incoming and outgoing materials, and complete electronic forms and labels.
• Familiarity with email and Microsoft Office applications, including Excel.
• Ability to prepare, analyze, and interpret data, perform extensive reading, and conduct visual inspections of small parts, errors, defects, and numerical information.
• Commitment to following all documented training, procedures, and processes to meet quality standards.
• Proactive approach to reporting and acting to prevent variations, errors, or lapses in quality.
• Strong safety mindset, consistently using safe behaviors and prioritizing safety over deadlines or other goals.
• Ability to work safely near moving mechanical parts and in a highly automated environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English with management and co-workers, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to read, write, comprehend, and explain instructions, procedures, technical manuals, reports, and correspondence in English.
• Competence in basic math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and decimals, using a calculator.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in warehouse, inventory, or material handling environments.
• Background in driving and operating light industrial vehicles, such as box trucks and golf carts.
• Experience working in highly organized, process-driven environments with strict documentation requirements.
• Prior exposure to cleanroom, semiconductor, or highly automated production environments.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to maintain accurate records and material traceability.
• Comfort working with computer-based tracking systems and data entry tools.
• Ability to multitask effectively while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Attention to detail when handling materials, completing documentation, and verifying process steps.
• Interest in cross-training and becoming certified to rotate among multiple process areas within a department.
• Willingness to work a compressed workweek schedule with 12.5-hour day shifts, including every other weekend and potential overtime.

Why Work Here? You will join a highly automated, process-driven operation where safety, quality, and precision are top priorities. The work environment offers the opportunity to develop cross-functional skills, gain experience with advanced tools and robotic equipment, and become certified in multiple process areas. The compressed workweek schedule provides longer stretches of time off, supporting work-life balance while maintaining full-time hours. You will work alongside a team that values continuous improvement, clear communication, and adherence to best practices in safety and quality.

Work EnvironmentThis role operates on a 12.5-hour day shift from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on a compressed workweek schedule, alternating between 3 days on/4 days off and 4 days on/3 days off, which includes working every other weekend and potential overtime as needed. Work takes place in a mix of environments, including a highly automated cleanroom, indoor staging and inventory areas, and outdoor loading docks and driveways while traveling between buildings in a box truck. Part of the day is spent in a cleanroom environment that requires full personal protective equipment, including a hooded full-body cleanroom gown (bunny suit), hairnet and/or beard net, safety glasses, face covering for mouth and nose, nylon or nitrile gloves, and, when required, a chemical apron.

Other parts of the day are spent outside the cleanroom in warehouse and staging areas, including working on loading docks and driving a box truck between buildings. The role involves frequent standing and walking for extended periods, repetitive lifting and handling of material boxes, pushing and pulling carts, and working in close proximity to moving mechanical and robotic equipment. The environment is structured, safety-focused, and highly procedural, with extensive use of computers and automated systems to track materials and support production.

Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of Vancouver, WA.

Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $19.00 - $21.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision

Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

Short and long-term disability

Health Spending Account (HSA)

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Nov 13, 2026.

Workplace TypeThis is a fully onsite position in Vancouver,WA.

About Aerotek

Aerotek® Inc. provides staffing and services solutions in manufacturing, logistics, construction, aviation, facilities and maintenance. We provide the expertise, solutions and people required to rise to the challenges of North American industry. Headquartered in Hanover, Md., Aerotek operates a unified network of over 200 offices across North America, supporting more than 18,000 clients each year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in workforce and business solutions. To learn more, visit: Aerotek.com | 1-888-AEROTEK.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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