Material Handler II

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Standing for full shift, Warehouse

Job Description

Purpose of the Job

The material handler's role is to pick products for customer orders based on picking slips, OLPN's, tasks, or scanner information. They then deliver the picked items to the packing department for processing.

Job and Position Context

The EDC in Bleiswijk is the main European Distribution Center in Europe, shipping to customers on the European continent, Africa, and the Middle East. Inventory is received from manufacturing sites and suppliers from all over the world.

The site is ISO9001 and GDP certified, and a ThermoFisher Zero Waste site.

The EDC ships > 1mn orders per year out to customers and other ThermoFisher sites.

We have over 66,000 bin locations storing inventory worth more than $50 million. This includes ambient, cold room (+5C), frozen (-18C) walk-in areas, and -80C and -170C freezer chests.

Stock is stored as item numbers or SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), and most SKUs are also lot controlled. Both SKU and lot number need to be managed and recorded throughout the warehouse processes.

There are 4 separate ERP systems in which stock and inbound & outbound orders are registered: SAP, Arrow, and E1 with WMS. This spread of complex processes over the different systems makes stock management, cycle counting, and all administration of orders very complicated and exciting.

Nonetheless, stock accuracy is maintained at a rate of over 97.5%, while shipping accuracy exceeds 99.7%. These precise figures are of utmost importance, as customers rely on receiving the accurate SKU/Lot consistently for the duration of their projects.

EDC employees must follow the EDC QMS and join EH&S, PPI, and Lean initiatives.

• Reporting potentially hazardous situations in the Intelex reporting tool
• Daily Tier meeting with their teams to discuss yesterday’s results and planning for today
• Participate in 5S initiatives and checks to keep warehouse and offices organized and efficient.

Job Content

Key Areas of accountability/responsibility

Material handlers picking are assigned on a rotational basis to specific temperature zones, warehouse areas and/or order types to pick.

Main activities are:

• The picker ensures that the WMS/SAP/E1 orders are picked accurately using a hand scanner.
• The picker works within the picking process, dealing with various types of work. They may have to pick using fastline totes and/or carts in different temperature zones.
• The product must be selected from various departments with different temperature conditions (freezer, cooling, and ambient). It should also meet the packing instruction before placing it on the conveyor belt.
• Verify through the handscanner that the accurate product and accurate quantity has been picked according to OLPN, TASK or pickslip.
• The picker should carefully handle all products to match the customers expectations regarding the quality of the product.
• end of the day all materials (carts/totes/polyboxes/POS clips, dry-ice, gelpacks) are set for the next day.
• responsible for coordinating the department to maintain a clean floor and ensure no foils or carton boxes are present daily.
• Going to the location that is shown on the pickslip, OLPN, or scanner, checking the items on that location, and picking the required quantity. The checking of item and quantity can be a manual process when working with paper pickslips, or automated by using a scanner.
• Performing a visual check for damage or label issues before handing material over to packing.
• encouraged to achieve the department's set quality standard critical metric.
• The picker must ensure items remain at accurate temperatures from removal at the pick location to the arrival at packing, based on storage and shipping condition.
• encouraged to report any deviations regarding safety, stock, SOP’s.
• encouraged to provide support to other departments when requested by the coordinator or team lead.
• Performing work that changes the world
• Individual developmenth and growth by continuously learning opportunities
• Collaboration with team members

Authorities

The material handler picking is allowed to drive the “J&J” orderpick truck only after successfully completing an internal training. For the reach truck and/or man-up truck, passing a formal exam is required, and needs to be repeated every 5 years.

Work together with colleagues to plan division of work.

Any issues with items or processes are sophisticated to senior colleagues or the operational leads following standard operating procedures.

Complexity

Working with different types of paper and digital picking instructions: SAP or E1 picking tickets, WMS lite software for E1/SAP, WMS Enterprise for WMS.

Working in cold and freezing temperatures.

Working with hazardous materials such as dry ice and the liquid nitrogen storage.

Driving warehouse trucks safely in often lively or congested areas.

Knowledge and educational level

Minimum of MBO-2 level either by education or by relevant work experience.

Languages: English and Dutch - At least good communication skills in one, and a basic understanding of the other.