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Are you interested in playing a pivotal role in cultivating a product line that has the promise to support breakthroughs in future therapeutic developments? Agilent Technologies is seeking a Material Handler for its growing life sciences manufacturing operation located in Folsom, California. Agilent's laboratory consumables business is an industry leader in innovation, market share and performance. Agilent is seeking energetic, motivated individuals with demonstrated skills in logistics, warehouse management, teamwork and communication.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable experience working in a fast-paced, high-throughput, leading-edge manufacturing facility, producing products used world-wide for ensuring quality and compliance in such areas as: diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, research and others.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Receives, stores and/or distributes materials and maintains material inventory accuracy.
• Performs a variety of administrative tasks, including maintaining inventory accuracy
• Maintains non-conformance materials and scrap parts
• Performs kitting of materials and interfaces with the warehouse
• May provide logistics analysis and new/customized approaches to providing logistics services
• Performs a variety of process support tasks including maintenance of records and/or databases
• Coordinates and facilitates processes by ensuring the proper flow of information and/or materials
• Supports inventory control activities with data entry, report generation and reconciliation
• Solves complex problems (inter-related, multiple variables) requiring breadth/ depth of knowledge of work area processes, procedures, objectives, plans
• Required to work and communicate cross functionally with company personnel at all organizational levels
• Participates, cooperates and contributes as part of a team
• Identifies and implements improvements within assigned area
• Develops solutions on how to resolve issues that are identified during daily work
• Provides feedback to supervisors, leads or technical support group on safety, quality and process related issues
• Provide troubleshooting and support for logistics operations.
• Willingness to work overtime as required and competence in planning and maintaining area throughput.
• Ability to routinely lift and move 25 lb. loads.
• Proactively present opportunities for improvement.