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Job Title: Warehouse Associate** **Job Description

As a Warehouse Associate, you will be responsible for preparing products by skid, crate, or box for shipment and processing routine and standard shipping paperwork. Your role will contribute to maintaining a clean and safe working environment through the proper and timely disposition and storage of materials.

Responsibilities

+ Support assembly with repackaging, kitting, and staging of materials.

+ Safely remove and dispose of wood, plastic, metal, and other packaging materials according to standard procedures.

+ Work with SAP to update storage bin information and identify and locate materials.

+ Complete routine inspections of material handling equipment.

+ Operate a turret truck forklift to pick orders and a sit-down forklift to move picked orders from racks to shipping.

+ Handle scrap bins by transferring materials into the dumpster.

+ Unload and load trucks via the forklift each day, including receiving 3-4 trucks and loading 2 trucks daily.

+ Visually inspect parts and move them to the receiving parts staging area.

+ Operate forklift trucks and/or cranes to move materials into and out of assembly areas.

Essential Skills

+ Material handling

+ Shipping & receiving

+ Warehouse distribution

+ Inventory control

+ Order picking

+ Production

+ Forklift operation

+ Turret truck operation

Additional Skills & Qualifications

+ Comfortable with heights

+ Previous sit-down or stand-up forklift experience

+ Familiarity with RF scanner, bill of lading, UPS Worldship

+ Comfortable with the smell of paint and oil

+ Previous shipping/receiving experience

+ Experience operating a turret truck forklift

Why Work Here?

Join a modern and clean facility renowned for its safety and team-oriented culture. Enjoy the benefits of an average employee tenure of 10-15 years and paid breaks, enhancing your effective hourly rate. With a supportive training environment and flexible approach to attendance, you will find a welcoming and stable workplace.

Work Environment

The facility is a modern, clean, and climate-controlled environment that implements 5S principles (sort, set-in-order, shine, standardize, sustain). It is organized into departments including new production, wind service, industrial, and logistics. Employees are provided with shirts but should wear durable pants. The facility emphasizes safety, with required safety glasses and steel toe shoes, and boasts an impressive safety record.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Elgin, IL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $19.48 - $21.42/hr.

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)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Elgin,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jan 19, 2026.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

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.