Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. The job opportunity is for one of our clients specializing in biotechnology product development services. Our client is dedicated to supplying laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services essential in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. As the global leader in serving the field of science, our client boasts an annual revenue of around $40 billion with a mission to empower customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Our client's global team is committed to delivering an unparalleled blend of cutting-edge technologies, convenient procurement options, and pharmaceutical services under their industry-leading brands.
Position: Material Handler II
Location: Tewksbury, MA 01876
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Summary
The Material Handler II is responsible for advanced material handling, shipping, and inventory control activities, including domestic and international shipments. This role supports warehouse and distribution operations while ensuring compliance with export regulations. The position requires experience in export documentation preparation and electronic export filings through AES and ACE systems.
Responsibilities
- Receive, inspect, and verify incoming materials against purchase orders and packing documentation
- Accurately pick, pack, stage, and ship materials in accordance with work orders and customer requirements
- Prepare domestic and international shipments, including proper packaging and labeling
- Generate and review export documentation such as commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin, and other required trade documents
- Submit Electronic Export Information (EEI) filings through the Automated Export System (AES)
- Process export-related entries and filings through the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) as required
- Ensure compliance with U.S. export regulations (EAR and other applicable trade regulations)
- Validate HTS/Schedule B classifications and support documentation accuracy
- Coordinate with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and carriers to ensure timely and compliant shipments
- Perform ERP/WMS inventory and shipping transactions accurately and timely
- Conduct cycle counts and assist with inventory reconciliation
- Operate forklifts and other material handling equipment (as certified)
- Maintain organized records in accordance with company and regulatory retention policies
- Identify process improvements and assist in training junior team members
Required Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- 2+ years of warehouse, material handling, or shipping experience
- Experience with international shipping and export documentation
- Working knowledge of AES filings and ACE portal processes
- Familiarity with ERP systems and warehouse management systems
- Strong understanding of inventory control practices
- Forklift certification (or ability to obtain certification)
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of Incoterms
- Hazardous materials shipping certification (IATA, IMDG, or DOT)
- Experience in a regulated manufacturing or distribution environment
- Basic understanding of trade compliance and customs regulations
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Tewksbury, MA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $21–$23 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Brokerageunmatched
- Distribution Operationsunmatched
- Distribution Servicesunmatched
- Distribution Warehousingunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Forkliftunmatched
- Freight Forwardingunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- High-Throughput Screening (HTS)unmatched
- Import/Export Complianceunmatched
- Inventory Cycle Countsunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Inventory Transactionsunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Leading Edge Technologyunmatched
- Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Receiving Inspectionunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Shipping/Receivingunmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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